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		<title>Helen of Congo</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/01/14/helen-of-congo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A belated dewenati / happy new year to everyone.  
After a month-long break Benn loxo is back.  I hope you all had a nice holiday season.
Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a great book by Gary Stewart, Rumba on the River.  It covers the history of 20th century Congolese popular music on both sides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vice and the mines</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/12/13/vice-and-the-mines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;ll hear a couple tracks off Original Music&#8217;s compilation of Zambian miners&#8217; songs, From The Copperbelt.  The recordings were all made by the amazing Hugh Tracey.
I&#8217;ve always had a thing for southern African, mid-20th century music.  George Sibanda  and The Forgotten Guitars of Mozambique compilation were early favourites.
From The Copperbelt covers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs the Swahili Sing</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/12/10/songs-the-swahili-sing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;ll hear a few songs from Original Music&#8217;s CD re-issue of their 1983 release, Songs The Swahili Sing.
Initially I wasn&#8217;t so into it, but this morning I was really taken by the music.. particularly the music by Yaseen Mohamed and Juma.
The compilation explores the world of Swahili &#8220;taarabu&#8221; music, particularly its difference from Arab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamilia: Songs From A Somali City</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/12/04/jamilia-songs-from-a-somali-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back to the Original Music posts&#8230;
Jamilia: Songs From A Somali city is collection of music recorded in the Somali town of Baraawe, about 120 miles south of the capital, Mogadishu.  
You heard a track off this album the other day, Dakhtar, since it also appears on the OM compilation, African Acoustic: Sounds Eastern &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zambian ztrumming</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/29/zambian-ztrumming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, busy week.  Feeling a bit tired this morning.  A little Zambian &#8220;you&#8217;ve done me wrong&#8221; acoustic by George Kazoka lifts me out of bed and into my mug of coffee.  
Today we&#8217;ll hear music from yet another Original Music release that explores the various forms of music that were spawned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six strings, adapted</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/27/six-strings-adapted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite strands of music from across the African continent is a variety of styles that employ the European acoustic guitar.  Original Music&#8217;s compilation, African Acoustic: Sounds Eastern and Southern, as the name implies, explores just that in eastern and southern African countries.
My two favourite tracks are both from the East so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy Monday Mozambique</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/26/grumpy-monday-mozambique/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/26/grumpy-monday-mozambique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nacio Makanda&#8217;s growling on the track Kerestina sounds like I feel this Monday morning.  A pinch of grumpy, a dash of missing the weekend, with its beer, fish and wine.
Another Original Music post today on my quest to post it all.  Today&#8217;s tracks come from the 30th OM release, Kerestina: Guitar Songs Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky stars, rosy Friday mornings</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/23/lucky-stars-rosy-mornings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we heard some 1960s highlife from Lagos.  
Following the Nigerian civil war, or Biafran war for independence, depending on your history book, juju replaced highlife as the dominant musical force in Western Nigeria.  While there were still a few Yoruba highlife musicians left in Lagos the dominant Igbo highlife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An elegant krio-calypso Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/21/an-elegant-krio-calypso-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/21/an-elegant-krio-calypso-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easy-going, jangly palmwine guitar for a mid-week post.
On his Original Music release, African Elegant &#8211; Sierra Leone&#8217;s Kru/Krio Calypso Connection, John Storm Roberts explores the relationship between palmwine guitar music from Sierra Leone and Liberia and Trinidadian calypso brought to West Africa by sailors passing through Freetown in the late 19th century.
Ebenezer Calendar, the musician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday goals</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2007/11/18/sunday-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m determined to eventually get a post in for every single Original Music release.  I know that many of you, or at least those who read often, may already have these albums, but bear with me.  It&#8217;s a personal goal to collect and post a sample from every album in the OM catalog.
Today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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