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Kailash Kher: Sufi + Rock + Bollywood!
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsJanuary 28, Bangalore Kailash Kher, charismatic singer in the Sufi-rock style, proved yet again that he is right at the cutting edge of fusion music in India during his performance... -
Post APAP 2012 Reflections: Global Synergy, Local Parts and Sums Adding Up
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsAPAP’s 55th Annual Conference: New York’s cosmopolitan nature becomes charged with fresh new energies, both local and global, each January, as more than 3,400 national and international performing arts leaders... -
Evangeline Kim’s Top World Music Albums of 2011
Posted on January 2, 2012 | No CommentsWorld music writer Evangeline Kim shares her list of Top World Music Albums of 2011. Evangeline is writer/contributing editor for National Geographic Music, TRACE Magazine, Afropop, Giant Step, Songlines Magazine... -
Top World Music Albums of 2011, Critics’ Picks
Posted on December 19, 2011 | No CommentsThis year we begin the list of best world music album with our most recent contributor, Tony Hillier. He is based in Cairns in far north Queensland, from where he... -
Kronos Quartet’s Space Odyssey
Posted on October 18, 2011 | 1 CommentScheduled to make its timely entrance on the Australian national festival scene in late October, Adelaide’s Earth Station http://www.earthstationfestival.com.au could not have selected a more appropriate headline act or feature... -
Seun Anikulapo Kuti Is On the Rise
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsImbued with his late father’s indomitable spirit and emboldened by the inheritance of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band and middle name, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti is poised to take over the mantle... -
The Staff Of Life
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsSome extraordinary bands have emerged from the turmoil and tumult that is Third World Africa, such as Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, who were born out of a bloody civil... -
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2011. Part II. More Musical Encounters
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music’s great strengths, apart from the larger, spectacular concerts in the Bab Makina and the Bab Boujloud, lies in its programming of... -
Lord of the Trance
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsRango’s debut album, Bride Of Zar, took everyone by surprise when it was released last year, introducing trance-inducing music from Sudanese mystic healing ceremonies and hip-shaking Nubian wedding melodies to... -
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2011. Part I: The World’s Spiritual Glories in the Medina
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No Comments“What is important, and indeed urgent, is to unlock our systems of thinking, our mental habits and automatic responses, to allow us to become more attentive and receptive to other...
