Judgement night, collaboration, special thank you's

Colin O’Donohoe
Pangean Orchestra


What’s New?
Look for my new “Special Shout out” section thanking wonderful podcasters and bloggers who play and talk about my music. I’m deeply grateful to them and hope that you can check out their sites/podcasts.

From facebook it seems that there are a lot of self reflection exercises floating around right now. Some of them have to do with either random albums that come to mind, or your favorite albums, or the ones that shaped the most either positive or negative.

It lead me to remember back in 9th grade when I listened to the album “Judgement Night” which was a soundtrack. For each track they brought one hip hop group and one hard rock group together. It was back when the grunge scene was still pretty popular. I really loved some of the music on that cd. I thought it was one of the coolest ideas I had heard. I think it was then that the seed for intercultural collaboration was planted in me.

Many years later I heard a wonderful album called “In the buzzbag” by Brooklyn funk Essentials with a Turkish group Laco Tyfa. This was the next album that really helped me in my journey towards forming my own group that could balance funk and world traditional music together.

I had always thought that I could cling to more lofty ideas about how I decided to go into music. I’m humbled by the fact that it was probably just a movie soundtrack that did it. The movie btw was one of the worst I had ever seen. I fell asleep during it and am not sure how it ends, though I don’t really care either.


Songs that I adore: Soundtrack to “Muppets from Space”


This is a seriously great collection of 70’s funk tunes. I can’t listen to this album without wanting to dance. I guarantee listening to this cd will make you smile. If you haven’t seen the movie, go rent it, it is great. Whether you have kids or not you’ll still enjoy it. Though, I think it probably is more fun watching it with some little ones around.

Special shout outs - -
I would like to take a moment to thank the following people who have featured me on their podcasts and blogs. I am very grateful that they genuinely like my music and wanted to share it with their audiences. Please take a moment to check out what they are doing -

Magical Mystical music - really great music!
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?searchdesc=%22Colin+O%27Donohoe%22&I1.x=0&I1.y=0

Jason Tippit’s “Pod across America” - very cool, I must say!
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?searchdesc=%22Colin+O%27Donohoe%22&I1.x=0&I1.y=0

Luver Radio - independent music, you’ll hear new stuff all the time
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?searchdesc=%22Colin+O%27Donohoe%22&I1.x=0&I1.y=0

www.luver.org

CHMR 93.5 FM
web link wasn’t working when I tried it.

Radio Clandestino
http://www.live365.com/stations/splinkster

Music for Midnight - cool music!
http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/381-music-for-midnight

New Age Stars - cool site/music
http://www.newagemusic.nu/

Dust my broom podcast - check it out

Jason Tippit’s Mental Nomad Podcast- He always seems to find good stuff
http://mentalnomadshow.blogspot.com/2009/01/artist-interview-world-musician-colin.html

More shout outs to come, I promise!

Until next weeek
Colin