Mongrel Music
You can tell time is passing by the scene out your window and the music in your head.

introduction from 1999:why Mongrel Music?An underappreciated consequence of six billion people on the planet is that more raw musical talent is now born daily than ever before. (After all, it's selected for.)And thanks chiefly to two technologies of the late, unlamented twentieth—
They absorb each other's musical traditions. Young American musicians get curious about klezmer and gypsy; women from Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey blend their splendid and unique voices; the Red Star Army chorus sings rock & roll with a bunch of spiky-haired Finns.Like the Florentine Renaissance, we're experiencing one of history's creative outbursts.We live on one little segment of human history's long line. A lot's going wrong at the moment. It's awfully easy to focus on that. So don't forget: there's one good reason to love living right now.
- accessible, ubiquitous commercial air travel
- affordable, luggable, high-quality recording equipment
They absorb each other's musical traditions. Young American musicians get curious about klezmer and gypsy; women from Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey blend their splendid and unique voices; the Red Star Army chorus sings rock & roll with a bunch of spiky-haired Finns.Like the Florentine Renaissance, we're experiencing one of history's creative outbursts.We live on one little segment of human history's long line. A lot's going wrong at the moment. It's awfully easy to focus on that. So don't forget: there's one good reason to love living right now.