Placeless, the album featuring renowned American string ensemble Kronos Quartet and acclaimed Iranian singers Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat is the number one album in April 2019 on the Transglobal World Music Chart.
“This recording is a milestone for us,” says Mahsa Vahdat. “The wonderful musicians in Kronos Quartet have given our music new dimensions. Our lives are constantly changing in relation to time and place. Our home and where we belong – this is all over the globe. By performing poems from Persia’s classical era, we have been coming closer and closer to finding an organic connection between what we express in our art and the way we live.”
The April 2019 Chart
- Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat – Placeless – Kirkelig Kulturverksted
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri – Outhere
- Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl
- Waed Bouhassoun – Safar: Les Âmes Retrouvées – Buda Musique
- Tartit – Amankor / The Exile – Riverboat / World Music Network
- Refugees for Refugees – Amina – Muziekpublique
- Kel Assouf – Black Tenere – Glitterbeat
- Belonoga – Through the Eyes of the Earth – NarRator Records
- Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues – Jazz Village / PIAS
- Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima
- Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT
- Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy
- Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique
- Alim Qasimov and Michel Godard – Awakening – Buda Musique
- Olcay Bayır – Rüya: Dream for Anatolia – ARC Music
- Las Hermanas Caronni – Santa Plástica – Les Grands Fleuves
- Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve
- Xiomara Fortuna – Son Verdad – Ileakwa Producciones
- Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito Martínez – Duologue – Mack Avenue
- Adir Jan – Layla – Trikont / BGST
Author: World Music Central News Room
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