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Zimba's Blog

December 30, 2008

A quick thanks to those who gave helpful suggestions for my trojan computer problems. I did some more research and found a program called ComboFix that helped improve the situation and I've been continuing to comb through it with some of the other suggestions people made.

Tonight, I wanted to give some love to a satellite channel that I receive, WorldLink TV. While I don't watch it regularly, they have some great world music videos that introduce so much wonderful music that never makes it into the mainstream. So much of the TV and music programming we are exposed to is so homogenized that it's refreshing to hear something different. The episode that I caught tonight featured African artists. They had videos by K'naan (a Somali rapper), Michael Franti and Spearhead (reggae fusion), Balance (Cape Verde songstress), Shaluza Max (South African dance music),and a couple personal favorites that I've seen live multiple times Angelique Kidjo (Benin soulful songstress) and Habib Koite (Malian guitar maestro). They each have a unique sound and very catchy pleasing elements to their music. I recommend you click through their names to view their videos on WorldLink, if you are curious about hearing new good music.

I've embedded a couple Michael Franti and Spearhead songs because I couldnt' find any on their website.