{"id":1195,"date":"2008-04-24T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2008-04-24T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T16:10:00","slug":"rokia-traore-nothing-to-do-with-superstrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/rokia-traore-nothing-to-do-with-superstrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rokia Traore: Nothing to do with superstrings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I picked up a Rokia Traore<\/a> album. I’m not sure what the impetus was–probably I was looking for another hit of the same kind of musical whammy that I got from Orchestre Baobab<\/a>‘s Pirate’s Choice<\/a>, so I was exploring African contemporary.<\/p>\n

Let us cut a long story short and say that I enjoyed the album, and eventually picked up two others. (Which, as far as I can tell has me “up to date<\/a>“, except that I haven’t been able to see\/hear the opera“Most recently, Traore has made news for a triumphant “quasi-opera” on the final year of Mozart’s life. Wati re-imagines a dying Mozart as a griot in ancient West Africa, heir to a long line of hereditary musicians. The work, commissioned by opera director Peter Sellars, has played to thrilled audiences across Europe.”<\/footnote> she did.)<\/p>\n

While I was sorting through the TED archives to prepare yesterday’s superstring video post<\/a>, I noticed that the TED guys have a Traore biography<\/a>, and investigating that leads to a clip where she performs “M’Bifo” as part of last year’s conference. I hadn’t noticed this before since the performance can only be streamed, not downloadedTheoretically. You know, for the people without the skillz.<\/footnote>.<\/p>\n

So, for your listening and viewing pleasure:<\/p>\n

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If you dig that but want to try some more before you make up your mind, there are three tracks available for online streaming at the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I picked up a Rokia Traore album. I’m not sure what the impetus was–probably I was looking for another hit of the same kind of musical whammy that I got from Orchestre Baobab‘s Pirate’s Choice, so I was exploring African contemporary. Let us cut a long story short and say that I enjoyed the album, and… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[84,459,124,269],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-embed","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-things-to-watch","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}