The 15 Best Global Music Albums of 2011
The 15 Best Global Music Albums of 2011 The best global music albums of 2011 prove there’s energy surging everywhere around music, this human-made fight to find an approximation of the inexpressible. “It’s been a good year,” said Dave, mentioning albums by established names like Tinariwen, Natacha Atlas, Mamadou Diabate. I agreed, thinking of the Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo reunion, and considering, too, the nameless Ethiopians recorded by Olivia Wyatt for Staring Into the Sun and the Scots from Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree, these people who were documented once on short notice before...