Calabash Music

you may want to try this great site called CalabashMusic.com. it gives a good overview of how vast the world of global music is, and will make both the dabblers and the serious 'uns happy. so what's a calabash you say? It's a bottle gourd. looky there in the graphic. now, what that gourd has to do with music is beyond me (i go to the site to download …)

here's what's there:

  • a free single every week. yay, free, yes free MP3. not a short clip. not a low quality version. it's a full-length song of a world music artist. you can actually build your collection from this site! especially great if you need to fill up all that space on your ipod!
  • a cd and dvd store. not content with downloading all those freebies, you can buy full albums and dvds.
  • everything's sorted out by region … so you can travel the world in music!

go on, give it a go! nothing ventured, nothing lost. i think i got that cliche all wrong.