Tunes Spun On The Word Between our reports for October 5, 2009. Artists featured are Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Hasso Akotey, Jan Garbarek, Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Baka Beyond, Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra
Indonesian officials in West Sumatra say some villages engulfed by landslides after last week’s earthquake will be left as mass graves. A spokesman said money would be better spent on the living than on retrieving about 400 bodies believed to be buried under the mud and rocks. Some semblance of normal life is returning to the provincial capital, Padang. Reporter Ann Dornfeld visited a village near Padang.
