Category: World Music
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iTunes Issues with Windows 10 Creators Update (64-bit)
Two days ago, I received an e-mail from Microsoft’s Insider Program, the availability of Windows 10 Creators Update (OS Build 16179). But, if you’re a music lover who spends a lot of time listening to your collection using iTunes on your PC, specifically one running the 64-bit flavor of Windows 10, then, here’s a caveat. Don’t update to the…
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A Tribute to Cesaria Evora
Cape Verdean –Cape Verde is a string of islands off the coastline of West Africa and a former Portuguese colony– songstress, Cesaria Evora passed away last Dec 18, 2011. Since most of her songs were rendered in Portuguese, I thought – when I first heard her music -that she was Brasilian. My mistake only proved, once more,…
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Three Computers and an iPod: To Sync or Not to Sync
I recently got a week-old iPod nano for my wife that has some songs on it – 165 songs to be exact. All of the songs are in the MP3 format. Not a single tune was in the MP4 format – a proprietary format Apple created that produced better fidelity during the compression process. Since the iPod nano…
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An Ode to Caetano Veloso
With a voice that seems to caress my heart of hearts A yearning for the joyful years I had in my youth The magical days that appear to last forever when I First learned how to fall in love Times when I was prayerful and remembered the bad Things that had been painful memories of…
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Red Hot + Rio
Our feature for next week’s iRadio broadcast. This is just one in a series of albums that started in 1990 and showcased the world’s best Brasilian/jazz musicians, in support for the search of a cure for AIDS. Very noteable was the combo of Astrud Gilberto and George Michael – as well as Everything But the…