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Coming up for air
From Distant Shores Started conversation Jun 20, 2000
My attention has been diverted from my journal for a few weeks now. I've been busy, working, writing content for a forthcoming website, and being a nuisance on the guide.
Yesterday, I visited the second Tower Records to open here in Malaysia. Like the first, it's a smaller version of Tower Records I've visited elsewhere in the world. It has a correspondingly smaller selection. It still has a much wider collection than most record shops.
Of course, I didn't come out empty handed. Influenced by all the recent conversations mentioning Bob Marley that I've had on the guide, I bought a CD of Live! to replace my vinyl copy. (Which means I can now listen to it as my old record collection is still back in Blighty).
I also bought, "New Ancient Strings" by Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko. It is a album of traditional Mali tunes played on two koras. (The kora is a harp-lute with 21 strings arranged in two rows from West Africa. Beautiful, timeless music.
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