Sacrilege! Heresy!

I am deeply distressed at the very thought that Jodie Whittaker is travelling the murky corners of time and space in an azure, Swedish portaloo.

And now, The Dr Who theme played on a marimba! […]

That was a very enjoyable review, even if I didn’t have any of those haircuts or rock any of those clothes.

It sounds like an extremely varied compilation which is a good thing.

Kid Creole? Yes […]

I was first introduced to Rodney’s music in 1980 by a Norwegian friend.

He’s been writing fine songs for years.

The title track of his first album from 1978,

His song about his Houston childhood.

You will be amused to hear, Sniffity and Hubert, that Baja Maja is the Swedish slang expression for a portaloo. Bajs is Swedish for poo.

The Baja Marimba band were an Herb Albert off-shoot and probably rather fun […]

Shame on me!! It was only a few weeks ago that I saw up-and-coming, Swedish pop star, Esther, live at an open-air, street-corner showcase on Södermalm

And it’s only now I mention here.

Delicate, melodic, […]

Ooops! Kaisfatdunce!! Naughty corner for me. Thanks @fitterstoke.

I was of course thinking of Coconut’s wonderful Kraftwerk cover album, Le Baile Aleman.

The Robots

Autobahn

“just a gimmicky lampoon of […]

Thanks a lot @Alias. For the last few days you have been dipping into your magic top hat and pulling out some stupendous rabbits.

Steelbands certainly belong here. They are played on mallets and, like the […]

Great review, Steve!

I suspected I would love this band from your description. I wasn’t wrong.

Ten seconds in and I was hooked.

Fitterstoke just commented on something and that made me think that, other than Evelyn Glennie, we’ve not many marimba players from Scotland.

I will soon put that right!

Calum Huggan

Gillian Maitland

Just in case you think that the magic of mallets is something dull and dusty from 80 years ago, here are a hot, modern combo from Cali, Socavon de Timbiqui, who boast both splendid marimba playing and groovy […]

I’m rather taken by Socavon de Timbiqui from Cali.

Here’s an article about them

And another song.

I really must revisit last’s year’s excursion to Colombia and read more carefully.

The solarphysics blogger is very good on traditional music but misses out on more modern sounds.

Let’s have a listen to a […]

It’s the way you tell them, Bingo.

Until the butter knife incident , this all sounded so wonderfully plausible.

Extremely entertaining!

Having read a little more, I realise that Harry is on one of the true maestros of the mallets. Beginning in the ragtime era, he was still recording in his 80s.

His career began playing in the radio favourites […]

A brilliant find! The golden age of the xylophone.

That has to be my favourite record sleeve of the week. Driven into a frenzy by Harry’s masterful use of the mallets, the poor girl seems to be trying to […]

This might interest you @Salwarpe. A solar physician with a love of music.

A real labour of love with lots to browse though. For example:

I know you’ve investigated a lot of this stuff previously but there is […]

Great story, Steve. And very typical of Jackie somehow.

Totally selfish, but I am very glad that he continued to be an artist who did a meet and greet after his shows.

Well @Salwarpe, the two of you are both continuing to dig into your music libraries and post tracks which I find extremely interesting and enjoyable.

That suits me fine.

In the last week, I’ve gained a far more […]

What an entertaining, thought-provoking read! Your family certainly cover a wide range of genres.

I’ll try and give it some thought but I expect to find that we all live in our little musical bubbles with […]

I didn’t know that Roy and Fela Kuti had played together…..