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Word of the Day for Sunday November 6, 2005

   verdure VUR-jur, noun:
   Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, "the verdure of
   the meadows in June."

     A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady
     groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea.
     --Motley

     The  first white settlers in the area started as [1]yeomen,
     scouring  the  land  of  trees  and  verdure  to create and
     homesteads.
     --Claude Andrew Clegg III, [2]An Original Man

     The road silent, [3]somnolent yet with a speech of its own,
     speaking  back to them, father and child, through trappings
     of  sun  and  fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies
     and a fresh crime mounting in the blood.
     --Edna O'Brien, [4]Down by the River
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   Verdure is from Old French verd, "green," from Latin viridis.

LISTEN 2 KING CHANGO @ http://kingchango.calabashmusic.com/!!!

..."From NY, this ensemble of Venezuelan, Asian, Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants grew up in the punk-ska movement with their first album KING CHANGO, but on their second, "The Return of El Santo," they extends its reach to include everything from rap-metal to dub reggae and trip-hop. It's a breathtakingly ambitious recording, and it works because the band doesn't jump from style to style but fuses them into a fresh, coherent sound.

The various pieces are cemented by a strange mix of political outrage and cartoonish humor. The album, after all, is named after a silver-masked legend of Mexican wrestling, and the title track suggests that "El Santo" is coming back to free the peasants of Chiapas, even the music goes from Tex-Mex accordion to Rage Against the Machine like guitar:.

King ChangO "The Return of El Santo" Luaka Bop - Washington Times

WWW.DESORDENPUBLICO.NET    The longest running SKA band in Latin America got its start in 1985 in their native Caracas, where they not only learned the lessons of 2-Tone and Jamaican ska, but also incorporated the sounds and instrumentation of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, coupled with an emerging social conscience that informed their lyrics.