A masterpiece of "the legend of China" reverberated the eternal sounds image.

Baaba Maal has announced new tour dates, including an appearance at the 46664 - AIDS Awareness Concert on Sat 11/29/03 at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.

I was just introduced to Children of the Revolution, a Seattle-based world fusion group and was completely blown away. Their music combines Flamenco, Middle Eastern, Latin, and Native American sounds into a seamless whole. This is one of the most exciting new sounds I've heard in a long time.

www.46664.com

Today it was announced by Nelson Mandela that there will be a concert in South Africa to raise money for South African AIDS
research. The concert will take place Saturday November 29th 2003 at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town and will be televised globally by MTV. Performers include Baaba Maal, Bono, Johnny Clegg & Sipho Mchunu, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Dave Stewart, Sting, and Youssou N'dour. 46664 was Nelson Mandela's prisoner number for 18 years on Robben Island.

The web site features two downloadable songs, but unfortunately they're in WMA format.

To have your music added to the iTunes Music Store, contact Apple via email at: join-music-store@apple.com.

Here are some of my favorite albums available from the iTunes Music Store. If you have iTunes, these links will open directly in iTunes to let you preview or buy the album.

• Missing You (Mi yeewnii) - Baaba Maal

• Djam Leelii - Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck

• Nothing's in Vain - Youssou N'dour

• Timbuktu - Issa Bagayogo

• Gigi

• 1 Giant Leap

• Seafaring Man - Mouth Music

• Fight to Win - Femi Kuti

• Electro Bamako - Mamani Keita

Apple has released iTunes for Windows, including the iTunes Music Store. The store features over 400,000 tracks, with more added weekly. You can buy a single track for $0.99 or most albums for $9.90.

I posted a review of iTunes for Windows here.

I'm an iTunes Music Store addict. Every week I look forward to Tuesday's new releases. With iTunes for Windows coming Thursday, this promises to be an especially exciting week. Here's a look at today's new additions.

Today is the Bands Against Bush International Day of Action. They're
encouraging people to get out and go see a band in their local area in protest against George W Bush's presidency. But other than a piece in Rolling Stone and another in
Careless Talk Costs Lives magazine, I don't think they've got much in the way of coverage. I'd hate to see all their effort go to waste. Or is informing people about the event on the day itself too late? Would you be able to organise something in time? Well, no. But bands like Radiohead and Coldplay are always going on about how political they are - now let's see them do something about it in the future. [article posted at metafilter.com]

Djam Leelii, the legendary album by Baaba Maa & Mansour Seck, is now available to download for $9.99 at the iTunes Music Store. The iTunes Music Store requires a G3 or G4-based Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.2 or later.