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Some great ideas about what to listen to. Thanks everyone. I'm having a great evening checking out everything people have recommended on Rhapsody. I'm currently listening to the Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors record. It's really a very good record, thanks so much for recommending it. I think it was Ariel who did but I can't tell because the Daily Digest doesn't always identify who's posting unless they sign their individual posts. Ariel , if you like this stuff, you might really like the Brian Blade's Fellowship recordings! Also, Jim mentioned Michael Masley's beautiful music on Cymbalon: I actually know Michael fairly well. He's talked about hiring me to play on a recording some day but we never put it together. He's really innovative and he lives entirely off of playing on the street with his innovative mixture of hammering and bowing the Cymbalon. He invented special beaters that have curved bows at the ends so he can either get 'wine glass-esque' bowed sounds or percussive sounds out of his Cymbalon (a form of hammered dulcimer). Jim you mentioned getting him to come to the festival but he, doesn't loop or if he did, he would have played years ago. I did get him a cushy wedding gig earlier this year, however, so that felt good. For such an innovative musician, he lives very marginally,economically. So glad you are into him. ************ Speaking of that devil, do you know the innovative bassist, Mark Deutsch from the Bay Area? He's another guy you'd just love, Jim and Daryl. He plays an invention of his called a Bazantar which is a cross between an upright acoustic bass and a sitar (with sympathetic strings). Really cool.............really out of the box. ************* Chris also mentioned Tinariwen, Bajofondo and Buraka Som Sistema. I love Tinariwen and the Buraka Som Sistema records They are both incredibly funky in respectively , traditional and modern ways! ************* I was wondering: Is the Bajofondo record the group that's part of the whole Congotronics movement? If not, that's one you might love: totally traditional drum based kalimba music except that they are using crudely kluged together amplifiers (out of car parts, I heard) that distort the kalimbas terribly into a beautiful mixture. If so, then I"m not hipping you to anything <doh>