h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today listened to Andy Kershaw's world music programme online. There was a Somalian-born Canadian rapper on it who was brilliant.

Also, some funny, therapeutic, modern `folk.' Don't know a better word for musical commentary. Make me feel I'm not alone in feeling a cultural gipsy.

Classical music is what I remember most from growing up in the sixties, especially German composers. I can't quite grasp why there were so many, but thank God there were - I know now why my granddad hated pop-music.

Well, that sounds pompous, but music is so important in so many ways, that I need to have some kind of geography of it in my head, especially if a song won't go away when I want it to.

(Sunday August 27th '06)

Replying to myself:-

found www.nativeamericanmusic.com

which has a juke-box of entries for the `NAMA' awards- favourite so far is the group `Elysium calling'

I also listened to some old Kiowa songs, on a linked site

`THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL
..
God, he knows everything.
He's going to make you.
He's going to make you feel good'

which is an old tribal song, no date given.

Well, I've come back to old favourites such as `HAllelujah' and `Praise my soul the King of Heaven', because they're uplifting and have a good message. `Morning has broken,' sung by CAt Stevens, is also a lovely piece of music. I also love Negro spiritual music - a lot have produced such wonderful joy out of great sadness. I guess that's why they call it the blues. (maybe the violet-blues). Songs of real love have to be good.