Given the general subject matter of my blog, I’m surprised it has taken me this long to create a Monday playlist with this theme. But be warned: this is not a “world music” playlist (that genre is bogus anyway, because world music is essentially all music. But that’s a different debate for another day). No, this Monday’s tunes are from different places but also for different places. There is music for lying on a beach, music for the open road, music for dancing, and music for dreaming about dropping everything and going somewhere; anywhere. There are rhythms that will make you want to stop and look at everything closely, but also rhythms that will make your feet itch with the desire to just get up and go.
P.S: Given the length of this playlist, I recommend you listen to the whole thing, uninterrupted, by streaming it on the right sidebar. Enjoy! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Al Bairre: Cape Town, South Africa
Jungle: London, England
Rodrigo Amarante: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tinariwen: Azawad, Sahara
Yuna: Kedah, Malaysia
ASA: French-Nigerian
Afrocubism: Cuba & Mali
Solletico: Madrid, Spain
Animal Collective: Baltimore, MD, USA
Fatoumata Diawara: Ivory Coast & Mali
Peter, Bjorn & John: Stockholm, Sweden
Emiliana Torrini: Kopavogur, Iceland
Jacques Dutronc: Paris, France
Beirut: Santa Fe, NM, USA
Zee Avi: Borneo, Malaysia
George Harrison: Liverpool, England
Holger: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Anoushka Shankar: Delhi, India
Olof Arnalds: Iceland
Megapuss: Venezuela, Brazil & USA
Conor Oberst: Omaha, NE, USA
PJ Harvey: Dorset, England
The Vaccines: London, England
New Navy: Sydney, Australia
They Might Be Giants: Brooklyn, NY, USA