Comments on: Ghana Speaks (IV): … and Koo Nimo plays guitar and sings http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaks-iv-and-koo-nimo-plays-guitar-and-sings/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaks-iv-and-koo-nimo-plays-guitar-and-sings/comment-page-1/#comment-165932 Potter Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:12:46 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=5419#comment-165932 It’s the folk music, the "old stuff" that came through to me in this interview more than all else and some catchy tunes after that of course ( High Life, Palm Wine). It came after talk about influences about 45 minutes in and the few minutes after. I wonder after embracing of world music- the big names-, how hard it is after to play your own so purely. For Koo Nimo all to the good. Great Koo Nimo photo above- It’s the folk music, the “old stuff” that came through to me in this interview more than all else and some catchy tunes after that of course ( High Life, Palm Wine). It came after talk about influences about 45 minutes in and the few minutes after.
I wonder after embracing of world music- the big names-, how hard it is after to play your own so purely. For Koo Nimo all to the good.

Great Koo Nimo photo above-

]]> By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/ghana-speaks-iv-and-koo-nimo-plays-guitar-and-sings/comment-page-1/#comment-165889 nother Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:46:32 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=5419#comment-165889 I've often heard music described as a conversation and I thought I knew what that meant. But there was a point in this conversation when Koo Nimo and friends were playing a tune and it was a epiphanic moment of music for me. The conversation these musicians are having is over time...the only agenda here is to transcend the limitations of now. Growing up as I have in our radio/tv culture, all the musicians I listen to - even the best ones - play for a market. It's not that they all write for a radio hit, but it feels as though our radio culture has us focusing too much on the adoration of our finicky peers. Koo Nimo is conversing with the ages, he is at once listening and leaning on our ancestors and both consoling and challenging our heirs. I heard all of that in one moment during this hour. Thanks. You rock. I’ve often heard music described as a conversation and I thought I knew what that meant. But there was a point in this conversation when Koo Nimo and friends were playing a tune and it was a epiphanic moment of music for me. The conversation these musicians are having is over time…the only agenda here is to transcend the limitations of now.

Growing up as I have in our radio/tv culture, all the musicians I listen to – even the best ones – play for a market. It’s not that they all write for a radio hit, but it feels as though our radio culture has us focusing too much on the adoration of our finicky peers. Koo Nimo is conversing with the ages, he is at once listening and leaning on our ancestors and both consoling and challenging our heirs.

I heard all of that in one moment during this hour. Thanks. You rock.

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