“The late, great Charlie Gillett had a passion for music”, Mark Coles, BBC World Service, June 2010.
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The singer Lhasa de Sela passed away in her Montreal home on the night of January 1st 2010, just before midnight. She succumbed to breast cancer after a twenty-one month long struggle, which she faced with courage and determination
If you wanted to make a CD of the last year of tunes for Fly from a global perspective, you would struggle to do better than this outstanding compilation. A vast amount of music goes to Charlie, gets listened to and filtered for his shows and then filtered again for his compilations. This really is the best of the last year and a good few pointers for the next one too
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Lhasa is unclassifiable not because she mixes a few styles together — although she does that — but because she is like a quantum particle. The very act of observation throws the experiment.
