Happy New Year, in Kinyarwanda. To 2008 being better than 2007. New beginnings, including with this site.

There are now some links buried on the bottom of the right-hand side; just some places I go to read and hear things that are interesting. I'll keep adding more. But I was inspired to do that when I ran across a link for Awesome Tapes from Africa earlier today. I went to Ghana about five years ago, and probably my biggest regret is that I didn't buy a whole suitcase-full of tapes before I left, because with the exception of some Daddy Lumba mp3's I found on Soulseek, I've never been able to locate much in the way of real African music, either here or in Europe. I mean the stuff people in Africa actually listen to (which varies so widely in quality), not just the lucky few who travel around the world, are well marketed, play venues in Paris and New York, and are heavily marketed by Western record companies.