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So often when we think of world beat we thing of music that does not take us very far from our own American world. Sultry Brazilian Bossa Nova or the rude afterbeat of Jamaican Ska is less than a day trip from American jazz, pop, punk and rock.
But even In the world beat music that is familiar we can still get the the feeling that we’re at a great party in a foreign culture. Check out Pure Brazil: Samba Soul Groove for example.
And if you’re really up for a musical trip into another world, a world that has not influenced by American music, you’ll find nothing much more strangely peaceful than “Spring Rivers And Flowers Under The Moonlight” on the CD Masterpieces of Chinese Traditional Music; or to explore another unfamiliar time and place try the Anthology Of World Music: North Indian Classical Music.
As far as world beat is concerned there is a young California guy who can take you on an interesting musical junket into the past and future at the same time. David Lyndon Hill, who thinks of himself as a drum programmer as much as a drummer, mixes the exotic with the harmonic and rhythmic flow of contemporary jazz.
In his electronic music you can hear, for example, the lilting sounds of monks, mixed with the whispered chants of African tribes. Listening to Hill’s Worldbeat: World Music for a New Millennium is like being on a modern tour bus traveling through some interesting and exotic places.
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