A Tangled Web: Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq and "Anansi"

It is delicious irony that on the day of my, Mike's, birthday that the song for today is called Anansi. Anansi refers to the trickster spider god of West African and Caribbean folklore and I happen to be very fearful of spiders. The song is performed by Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq, a Los Angeles clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist who works both as a collaborator with the Pan African Peoples Arkestra and as a solo artist. Anansi can be found on his 2008 album The Abakuá.

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Sources: http://www.fuasi.com/