From Cuba to Mexico via ports like Veracruz and Yucatán, guaracha, son montuno and rumba crossed the Gulf, inspiring a new wave of sound. Radios, dance halls and Mexican cinema turned tropical rhythms into part of everyday life.
Between the late ’50s and mid ’70s, Mexican Sonoras took that fire, added their own swing, and created a unique tumbao — brass blazing, congas rolling, voices full of sabor.
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God's Waiting Room: a round-about selection of the cinematic, library music, rock 'n' roll, psych, experimental, unclassifiable and independent. From the mind of DJ, producer and creator of original soundtracks, David Holmes.
CONTENT WARNING: this show contains discussion of violence, war crimes and genocide.
God's Waiting Room: a round-about selection of the cinematic, library music, rock 'n' roll, psych, experimental, unclassifiable and independent. From the mind of DJ, producer and creator of original soundtracks, David Holmes.
CONTENT WARNING: this show contains discussion of violence, war crimes and genocide.
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RAPHAEL DOYLE AND GERRY DIVERRAPHAEL DOYLE AND GERRY DIVER
I COME FROM IRELAND
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NATHAN DAWIDOWICZNATHAN DAWIDOWICZ
CAPRICORN RISING
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Richard Boyd BarettRichard Boyd Barett
What Ireland's History Of Resistance Says About Palestine
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SAINT ABDULLAH AND JASON NAZERYSAINT ABDULLAH AND JASON NAZERY
EVICTED IN
Britain In PalestineBritain In Palestine
1917-1948.1
DAVID HOLMES & TIM HARRIESDAVID HOLMES & TIM HARRIES
FINED FOR NOTHING (FROM THE SHADOW OF BEIRUT OST )
DAVID HOLMES & TIM HARRIESDAVID HOLMES & TIM HARRIES
MY DAUGHTER (FROM THE SHADOW OF BEIRUT OST )
Ghassan KanafaniGhassan Kanafani
Talking About On The Palestinian Liberation Struggle (1970)