Kyab Yul-Sa’s Himalayan Whispers
Kyab Yul-Sa – Murmures d’Himalaya (Nangma Prod, 2024) The Kyab Yul-Sa trio, recipients of the 2021 Prix des Musiques d’Ici award, will debut their new…
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 From Africa with Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory Records KFR1110CD, 2011) Seun Anikulapo Kuti, son of Nigerian Afrobeat creator and…
View More Afrobeat on the UpswingBeginner’s Guide to Scandinavia is one of the most interesting world music boxed sets released this year. Produced by Stockholm-based freelance journalist Tatiana Rucinska, the…
View More Tatiana Rucinska Reveals the Beginner’s Guide to ScandinaviaOn Saturday, 29 October, 2011, it’s the Dutch offWOMEX Night at word music expo WOMEX 2011. Dutch Delta Sounds is brought by Music Center The…
View More Dutch offWOMEX Night at WOMEX 2011Globaltica World Cultures Festival will be held July 29-31, 2011, in Gdynia, Poland. The musical line-up this year features Afro-Cuban all Stars (Cuba), Bonga (Angola),…
View More Living Music Cultures at Globaltica World Cultures Festival 2011 in PolandVarious Artists Japanese Traditional Music: Koto – Shamisen | Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (World Arbiter, 2011) Traditional Japanese music buffs should check out the third installment…
View More Rare Koto and Shamisen GemsTuareg desert blues rockers Tamikrest are set to perform live at the Barbican in London this Saturday 23 July at 6:15 pm at the Blaze…
View More Video of the Week: Aratan N Tinariwen by Tuareg Band TamikrestFanfare Ciocarlia and Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra Balkan Brass Battle (2011) Two of the finest brass bands in the world, Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia and…
View More Balkan Brass FuryTiken Jah Fakoly, Meta and the Cornerstones, Los Rakas and Adam “Atropolis” Patridge are set to perform Saturday, August 20th at Mainstage at Central Park,…
View More Ivorian Reggae Master Tiken Jah Fakoly to Perform at SummerStage 2011 in New York CitySkirball Cultural Center is set to present its fifteenth annual free summer world music series. The Sunset Concerts will take place on six consecutive Thursday…
View More Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to Present 15th Annual Free World Music ConcertsAkashA Karakoram Highway (2011) Malaysian band AkashA is quickly becoming one of the most interesting bands in the world fusion category. The multiethnic band has…
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