Tag: Toumani Diabaté
Afrocubism
Visa problems stopped an Afro-Cuban soundclash in 1996, so producers recorded Buena Vista Social Club. Now after 14 years, the original project is here.
Toumani Diabaté
The griots are the curators of West African history, storing thousands of stories and songs in their memory.
Girona and the 3rd Caixa Sabadell Etnival
You can keep your Costas: a few minutes inland there’s a beautiful city waiting to be discovered.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Borat
It’s sexy time: Sacha Baron Cohen’s bumbling reporter bursts onto the big screen.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
Soldier of Orange
Strong performances and arresting images in this Dutch view of wartime occupation.
- Originally published: 4 Sep 2006 in Film
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
The walls have ears: a painful look at the methods of the former East German regime shines a light on the darkness.
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2007 in Film
Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)
A fascinating documentary tracing the circumstances that led one young streetkid to take hostages on a Rio bus.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film
Schuppenboer Tripel
4/5. A group of former amateur enthusiasts from Turnhout have turned out this soft and fruity tripel with lots of coriander.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2011 in Beer
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.