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Grammy voters: Now hear these!
October 28, 2007
The Recording Academy has mailed out some 11,000 Grammy Award nomination ballots to voting members, who have until Nov. 7 to consider the possibilities and return them for tabulation. While they're mulling the countless options, Calendar's pop music staff and contributors offer a few humble suggestions -- artists or individual works of exceptional merit, but perhaps under the radar of most voters -- that deserve to be heard before those final nominations are chosen.
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Traditional World Music Album
Andy Palacio& the Garifuna Collective
"Watina" (Stonetree/Cumbancha)
The only reason this entrancing album does not appear among official Grammy contenders is because its U.S. label missed the submission deadline. Sad if it were overlooked on that technicality. The artist, singer Andy Palacio, and his producer, Stonetree's Ivan Duran, just won this year's Womex Award, a world-music industry honor, for their work in preserving the threatened folk music of the Garifuna people of the Belize region. A blend of Indian and African traditions, this is rootsy, gently rhythmic music that is at once joyous, soulful and mystical, quite moving even without understanding the native language. Write it in. 10/28/07 >> go there
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