Silk Road Ensemble Goes Off The Map
The internationally acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble has a new recording titled Off the Map, which is the group's first independent recording, released on the World Village label. Produced by the Silk Road Project and In A Circle Records, Off the Map is a testament to the close collaborative spirit of the Silk Road Ensemble.
The album features new works commissioned from four celebrated contemporary composers: Osvaldo Golijov, Gabriela Lena Frank, Evan Ziporyn and Angel Lam, performed by fifteen members of the musical collective, including international stars Kayhan Kalhor, Wu Man, Cristina Pato and Wu Tong.


Irish band
Rounder Records is pleased to announce the release of
One of Spain's rising stars, Buika, is back with her 4th studio album entitled “
A new release by Alekos Vretos is scheduled for release on 10th November 2009 in Athens. The new CD is called Mergin', and it refers to a merging of East and West. It took Alekos almost 3 years to complete his new Mergin'. The music is a clever mix of Arabic, Jazz, Latin and Greek elements, a form of world jazz. Traditional instruments like the oud, the violin and the nay combined with the piano, drums and the saxophone bring out all of the flavors.
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. In November of last year, he recorded an inspired new album with London psych jazz band The Heliocentrics for Strut's Inspiration Information studio collaboration series. Now, Strut are releasing, for the first time anywhere, the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark '60s and '70s recordings in an album titled
Canadian-Indian singer Vandana Vishwas dedicates her debut recording to Indian poetess Meera Bai, who was born in the western Indian province of Rajasthan in the sixteenth century. When Meera Bai, whio was an adolescent at the time, witnessed a marriage procession and asked “Who will be my bridegroom?,” her nanny showed her a miniature idol of Krishna (Hindu deity) and said ‘Him!’. She married a handsome prince at a very young age. During her marriage, she never lost her childhood infatuation towards Lord Krishna, and prolifically wrote poems of her love for him.
Icelandic folk singer Ólöf Arnalds will be releasing her first US release Við og Við through One Little Indian on November 17th. Two fall performances include the opening of the Roni Horn Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art on November 6th where Ólöf performs with Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur rós & Rockwood Music Hall on November 9th.