Category: World Music

  • In Search of Caldera

    Once in a while, we are in the hunt for music we had loved listening to – maybe, all throughout the years of our existence. What compounds the problem is the ever-changing mode of recording music. It seemed that only a few years back, I was either listening to vinyl records or to 8-track tapes…

  • Natural do Rio de Janeiro

    This is the CD that we will be featuring this weekend (hopefully) in my iRadio webcast. I purchased this personally from the popular CD store in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro and it was near the pub/restaurant (formerly known as Valhala) where the late maestros, Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, composed the bossa nova standard,…

  • Installed Apple’s revamped iTunes (v2.5)

    Gotta love iTunes‘ new version 2.5. Apple is continually pushing the envelope with increasingly sophisticated features in its industry-leading music software. I got it for the “free downloads” (just one song – and spoon-fed by Apple and, only for one week…but, well…free is free and no matter what genre of songs they give for free,…