Village Voice, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Musician, Blender, Tracks, AARP: The Magazine and countless other publications both living and archived. In a separate but equal universe, he co-authored The Phish Book with the fab Burlington quartet. He began the current millennium as Sonicnet.com's world music editor and continues to freelance from polyethnic Brooklyn, New York, where he resides in domestic tranquility with his wife and two daughters." />

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Richard Gehr

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Richard Gehr has been writing about international music — and many other things — for more than two decades. After moving to Los Angeles from Portland, OR, via Baltimore, he was the Los Angeles Reader‘s arts editor during the early ’80s. He relocated to New York to become an editor at Spin, and wrote the magazine’s “World Beat” column for a few years. He has also written for the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Musician, Blender, Tracks, AARP: The Magazine and countless other publications both living and archived. In a separate but equal universe, he co-authored The Phish Book with the fab Burlington quartet. He began the current millennium as Sonicnet.com’s world music editor and continues to freelance from polyethnic Brooklyn, New York, where he resides in domestic tranquility with his wife and two daughters.

Richard Gehr Archive

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The Sweltering Sound of Chicha…

Two Frenchmen, two Yankees, a Mexican and a Venezuelan walk into a bar… A… more »

The Sublime Sound of Syria

When I saw Sabah Fakhri perform in New York City's Town Hall in 1992, I w… more »

Six Degrees of Amadou & Ma…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Bai Janha: The Afro-Rock Under…

The Republic of Gambia — mainland Africa's smallest nation — is virtually… more »

Bola, Volume 7

Ghanaian kologo player Bola Anafo has a single mighty sound he sticks to … more »

Hugh Masekela, Jabulani…

Known for wedding the musical traditions of his native South Africato oth… more »

Iran and the Mournful Pop Narc…

The music of Iran has never made much of an impact on the West. It certai… more »

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ladys…

Wow. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the venerable South African male a cappella… more »

¡Ay Mami! Bring on Bachata

Anyone into Caribbean and/or Latin music is almost certainly familiar wit… more »

DJ /rupture: A Post-Digital Gu…

No disc jockey transports me back more reliably to the free-form radio tr… more »

The Lijadu Sisters, Danger…

Born in 1948, identical twin singer-songwriters Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu … more »

Baaba Maal: Senegal’s Ot…

Two women sitting in front of me murmured in increasing exasperation as S… more »

Nahawa Doumbiam, La Grande Can…

Awesome Tapes From Africa blogger Brian Shimkowitz inaugurates his new la… more »

Fight the Power: Artists and R…

Last week saw the release of Beautiful Rivers and Mountains, a compilatio… more »

Scene: Brazilian Pop

Tropicalismo's radical reimagining of Brazilian music swept through Rio d… more »

Shin Joong Hyun, Beautiful Riv…

Symptoms of struggle permeate the weeping wah-wah guitar of South Korea's… more »

Umphrey’s McGee, Death B…

In the studio, improv-rock groups are usually forced to walk a fine line … more »

A Tale of Two Kutis

Born to different mothers in 1962 and 1982, respectively, afrobeat archit… more »

Penguin Café Orchestra,…

One of the more popular releases on Brian Eno's experimental Obscure … more »

Leon Russell, Carney

Scowling from the cover like a petulant clown interrupted while applying … more »

Ravi Shankar, The Ravi Shankar…

Ravi Shankar recorded his debut album in London in 1956 during his first … more »

Terry Allen, Lubbock (On Every…

They used to say that all Lubbock, Texas, ever had was Buddy Holly and UF… more »

Penguin Café Orchestra,…

One of the more popular releases on Brian Eno's experimental Obscure … more »

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