Yair Dalal & Friends Inshalla Shalom (Najema Music/Magda MGD050, 2005) Israeli composer, violinist and ud player Yair Dalal has gathered a few friends for this…
Inshalla Shalom, a Meeting of Middle Eastern Musical Minds
Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
Palm World Voices Africa, a Stunning Collection of Song, Video, Photography, and Design
Various Artists Palm World Voices Africa (Palm Pictures/Universal Music, 2005) We get some really fabulous CDs here at World Music Central, but Palm World Voices‘…
Anoushka Shankar Goes World Beat
Anoushka Shankar Rise (Angel Records/EMI, 2005) Anoushka Shankar has emerged from the shadows of her famed father and teacher Ravi Shankar in her latest offering,…
Hypnotic Khayals
Shweta Jhaveri Khayal – Saga (21st Century Cosmos 21C 002, 2005) Shweta Jhaveri has emerged as one of the promising young artists of classical Hindustani…
The Gentle Heart of Mali
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté In The Heart of the Moon (Nonesuch/World Circuit Records, 2005) Every once in a while you stumble across a…
Women Care, African Women Have Their Own Voice
Multiple Artists Women Care (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2005) With an energized emphasis on the plight of Africa, it’s a shame U2’s Bono and Live 8’s Bob…
The Ancient Sounds of Vasconia
Xarnege Musica de contrabanda (Xarnege PYR 001-KD) Xarnege is a band formed by Basque and Gascon musicians from Spain and France. They explore the music…
Sorrow and Struggle
Rim Banna The Mirrors of My Soul (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, FXCD288, 2005) From the same folks who brought you Lullabies from the Axis of Evil, Kirkelig…
Harmonized Peyote Songs
Gerald Primeaux, Sr. A Tradition Continues… Harmonized Peyote Songs (Canyon Records CR6377, 2004) On A Tradition Continues… Harmonized Peyote Songs, released on Canyon Records, Gerald…
Ritualistic Alchemy of the East and West
Mercan Dede – Su (RH Pozitif Müzik, 2004/Escondida Music, 2005) Mercan Dede’s Su is a collection of densely layered compositions in a hypnotically ritualistic alchemy…