Faso Denou: CD AOTY23SHORT After more than a decade

After more than a decade in New York

capturing the explosive energies of a sugar rush in a dense traffic jam of samples from dogs and animals to human screams

“Music can so often feel undervalued and for some

It's a dancer and it's a prancer

Here the MARKERS have found a reason -- a soft ballad that breaks into a piano/guitar improvisation that is somehow

Faso Denou: CD AOTY23SHORT After more than a decadeFrom the relentless creativity of 1992 Real World Recording Week came a project as joyous as it was powerful and unusual. Farafina, a percussion ensemble from an arts school in the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso. Two producers: iconic American Panamanian jazz drummer Billy Cobham, of Miles Davis fame, and Daniel Lanois, Canadian uber producer for such A listers as U2, Bob Dylan and Peter Gabriel. Over two days Cobham for Day One,