Papua New Guinea String Bands w/ Bob Brozman - Tiki Music

A aikiman44 Member NY Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 281	A aikiman44 Posted posted on Sun, Nov 6, 2005 8:46 PM Songs of the Volcano From Rolling Stone: "Watch out, Paul Simon: Steel guitar whiz and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman traveled to superremote Papua New Guinea, one of the last places on Earth to get guitars, according to the liner notes, to jam with the guitar, ukulele and vocal harmony groups called string bands. The album captures a winning musical style that is immediately familiar but hard to pin down, at once reminiscent of Hawaiian folk music, Delta blues and bluegrass." They give it 2/5 stars. Anyone familiar with this?

Songs of the Volcano
From Rolling Stone: "Watch out, Paul Simon: Steel guitar whiz and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman traveled to superremote Papua New Guinea, one of the last places on Earth to get guitars, according to the liner notes, to jam with the guitar, ukulele and vocal harmony groups called string bands. The album captures a winning musical style that is immediately familiar but hard to pin down, at once reminiscent of Hawaiian folk music, Delta blues and bluegrass."
They give it 2/5 stars. Anyone familiar with this?

Post #196754 by aikiman44 on Sun, Nov 6, 2005 8:46 PM