Deborah Bonham has signed a new deal with Rhino Records/Warner Music Group.
Her new album Duchess and the Shufflemeister will be released world wide in September.
Congratulations Deborah from your friends at led-zeppelin.org.
Thanks to Adam Vickery
The sixth annual BBC Radio 3 Awards For World Music were held this past weekend at London’s Barbican (May 27, 2007). Robert Plant was on hand to present an award to one of his musical idols, Mahmoud Ahmed.
Mahmoud Ahmed is both a living legend and something of a mystery in the West. Undeniably Ethiopia’s most famous singer of its “golden era”, the three albums reissued of his recordings by French label Buda Musique as part of their Ethiopiques series have captured Western listeners in the same way that, say, the reissues of Robert Johnson’s Delta blues did a previous generation.
Plant: “From the Atlantic shores: the music, sometimes primeval, often contemporary, all engaging, lyrical and vibrant, but music from another world songs of the corruption, of the city despair, hunger, changing landscapes, hope, loyalty and love.”
“Tonight we celebrate Mahmoud, an unusual singer. His music, his musicians, his style.. sultry, city, low-light imply a very different African groove-zone. His recordings for us, like Robert Johnson’s, obscured for many years and arriving from nowhere pre-Ethiopic. They become small amulets for me, a treasure to carry on my journeys and I’m very proud to present this award to Mahmoud Ahmed.”
(Click on “Watch his performance”. This segment begins at approx 3min)
John Bonham will be featured the the July issue of Traps Magazine, an affiliate of Drum! magazine. More details to come.