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« Reply #140 on: October 04, 2026, 09:24:56 AM »


Just back in from the West End Center Aldershot from watching Reg Meuross on guitar/vocals, with Cohan Braithwaite Kiloyne concertina and vocals, and Jali Fily Cissokho?  on Kora playing "Stolen from God". A folk song cycle about the transatlantic slave trade.  Had no idea what it was going to be like, but thoroughly enjoyed it and bought the CD at the half time break.  In between each song there was a reading about the capture and treatment of slaves and their masters

Seemed a good end to the day. After earlier this afternoon replying to an old friend i have known since primary school on face book after his post ranting about Islamic slavers and how they enslaved Christians, and me pointing out slavery has been going on for thousands of years and that many thousands of slaves were taken by Christians, and that he could read about it on Wikipedia.  


Sounds very interesting - unfortunately they're not doing it anywhere I can get to.

Eurgh - whatabouterism at its worst.
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« Reply #141 on: Yesterday at 08:25:02 PM »

The HU in Bristol last week - Mongolian metal with added horsehead fiddles and overtone singing - first couple of songs were pretty standard metal, could have been any metal band, but their culture started to come through more strongly as the set progressed.  

Support from Skald, whose latest album I'd listened to via youtube... rather disappointing live - way too much tribal drumming and not enough of the light & shade and indeed melody from the album.

Venue was the Prospect Building - bit of a barn, rather basic inside, plenty of food & drink available - at a price!  Angine de Poitrine playing a sold-out gig there next week - my elder son (an accountant) has the Prospect's bar/food manager as a client, so he's going to try to blag me in,
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