I know she used to be the First Lady of France, and she sounded pleasant enough, but is that a good enough reason that we had to put up with Carla Bruni's stuff taking up a disproportionate amount of limited World Music time on a Saturday afternoon. 
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sums it up nicely JC. I'd love to know how they came to choose her.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI know she used to be the First Lady of France, and she sounded pleasant enough, but is that a good enough reason that we had to put up with Carla Bruni's stuff taking up a disproportionate amount of limited World Music time on a Saturday afternoon.
Other solo acoustic musicians are available. Examples:
I loved this track, but, again, not sure why it was included
Ah well, should be Lopa's week off next week.Comment
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<<sums it up nicely JC. I'd love to know how they came to choose her.>>
Hear, hear! A real mistake.Comment
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Instead of bland, saccharine Carla Bruni Lopa could have chosen
Brigitte Fontaine.
I mean with lyrics like
How could you go wrongI lost my glasses
It's gonna be a party
The soldiers are gone
Covered in confetti
Time is a boat
The earth is a cake
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I assumed it was your good self, Monsieur Global! I really enjoyed the Mexican road trip and could have handled more of the Classic Artist of the week, Pandit Jasraj. But the surprise of the week, and I hope this will not prove too contentious, was how excellent was the version of 'October Song' that Martin Simpson managed.Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostComment
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Summing up this afternoon's Music Planet I would say too much blab and not enough music.
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thanks for the excellent précis.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostSumming up this afternoon's Music Planet I would say too much blab and not enough music.
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Originally posted by Globaltruth View Postthanks for the excellent précis.
Much Improved this week...enjoyed the Road trip to Uruguay with Betto Arcas and the classic artist of the week, Ali Akbar Khan, who I was unaware of...very enjoyable for a Saturday afternoon. Really liked the ethio-jazz RockDub (can't think what other pigeonhole to put it in) from Azmari. Much better blab/music coefficient, I should add.
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proportions were much better yes I agree.Comment
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no Music Planet on Sat. so caught up with LK's previous attempt.
The road trip to the Chinese province of Guizhou with musicologist Mu Qian was intriguing.
I like the stuttering repetitive singing - how and why has that developed over the years?
Here are the Yandong Grand Singers in a jolly compilation from a tour of the US from pre-pandemic times:
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Some very fine tunes on 'Music Planet' yesterday, especially the creole opener by Sakili from Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean. Also really enjoyed the final track by the guest, Chinese pipa player, Cheng Yu - 'Little Stream'. Lopa still sounds like she's reading from an auto-cue...I suppose that's not likely to change anytime in the near future.
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Classic artist of the week on Saturday's 'Music Planet' was Algerian maestro, El Anka Hadj M'hamed El Anka and I just love that voice of his - quite wonderful. This is 'Lehmam' and he's accompanied by one of the stranger group of instrumentalists I have seen - wonderful music.
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There you go...that wasn't so difficult, was it!? All you need to make a decent programme is the nice and informative Mr Banning Eyre, some delightful Mande guitar, Dr Duran being baptised by Mister Perry, and a few fine tunes...sadly, from my point of view anyway, Spiers and Boden have reformed. 
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Totally agree.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostThere you go...that wasn't so difficult, was it!? All you need to make a decent programme is the nice and informative Mr Banning Eyre, some delightful Mande guitar, Dr Duran being baptised by Mister Perry, and a few fine tunes...sadly, from my point of view anyway, Spiers and Boden have reformed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zcgt
LK was totally out of her depth with Banning, but he is a competent presenter, passionate about his subject as well as being an active player so could just talk past her clichéd rhetoric.
He deserves his own show - oh, wait, https://afropop.org/
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Enjoyed the road trip about Brazilian Carimbo Music yesterday.
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