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Re: Sunday, February 26, 2006
I understand what you're saying about Sirius; we have both Sirius and XM in our house, and I do enjoy listening to them a lot. But I still get a kick out of hearing something I'm not "supposed" to be able to hear. A couple of afternoons a week, I tune in Radio Tanzania Zanzibar on 11735 kHz, for example. They play an incredible mix of African, Arabic, and Indian music, as well as the local music, taarab, which incorporates influences from all three. They come in surprisingly well, armchair levels even. And it's stuff I never ever hear on the domestic satellites. XM had a couple of good world music channels, but they deleted them in order to have room for a couple of French Canadian channels when they entered Canada. Did away with half the stuff I listened to there. Sirius' world music channel is a joke every time I listen, more newage than actual music from around the world. I love having access to this window into places I'll likely never go. The net is great for listening in on the developed world; the developing world, not so much. Not yet, anyway. I've seen a few of those old Nordmende radios. Absolutely gorgeous. I've got a couple of Grundigs of similar vintage, and a neat Polish knockoff of the classic Grundigs of that era.
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