by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (February 24th, 2009)
I love a good distraction. And nothing will distract me more quickly than excellent music. A couple of weeks ago I launched a contest. I’m giving away an 8GB Zune to one lucky person who sends me their top travel tunes. The only parameters are that you’re limited to 10 songs and I just need [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (February 3rd, 2009)
OK – time to have a little fun. You’ve probably already deduced from my world music reviews that I’m a huge music fanatic. A little known fact is that I used to be a DJ. Yup. Spinnin’ tunes in NJ. $6/hour playing the same top 40 songs over and over wasn’t quite stimulating enough for [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (October 9th, 2008)
Call it a perfect moment. Call it perfect music. Call it what you will, but it all came together for me when I heard the CD Ama from Yungchen Lhamo. Yunghchen fled Tibet on foot in 1989 and has since traveled to 70 countries singing her often a cappella music which is steeped in Tibetan [...]
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