like the moon
The following piece was published in December 2016 in The Wire‘s special issue, Spirits Rejoice: Sacred Songs, Divine Drones, and Ritual Rhythms (#394). I was excited by the call for pitches because I’ve been connecting lots of dots in my music history courses at Berklee between sacred and secular traditions, and I’ve become more and […]
Read More →As published in issue 377 of The Wire (July 2015), here’s my joint review of two recent books about soundsystem/DJ culture, each of them impressive efforts of deep documentation and deliberate framing even as each takes a rather different approach to the project. Together, they further round out our understanding of the soundsystem as global […]
Read More →Yesterday Cluster Mag posted my second contribution to what we’re calling a “multimedia mash-up series.” (The first was my Lambada mega-mix.) As with my “Gasodoble” remix, this mashy montage sources related clips from YouTube — in this case drawing from Colombian (and a Dominican) choque vids and a variety of folk (mostly US-based) doing the […]
Read More →Sound Taste: Friday Omega Carolina Gonzalez on merengue de la calle, aka mambo (tags: merengue DR blogpost mambo) Merengue de Calle AKA Mambo: The Sound of the Dominican Underground « GAY SOVIET TRON Y’ALL on merengue de calle, aka street merengue, aka mambo: “The tracks are stripped-down merengue rhythms (most sound right off a Casio’s […]
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