Por Do Som presented a new showcase of Brazilian artists in December 2021. The festival called “Mestre dos Saberes” (masters of knowledge) paid tribute to…
Palimpsesto is a new music series that will showcase the music of Iberia and the Mediterranean as well. The event will take between January and…
This week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added the bolon (also spelled m’bolon and nbolon) to the List of Intangible Cultural…
Dutch ensemble Rembrandt Trio has released a new album titled “A Wind Invisible Sweeps Us Through The World” (Just Listen Records, 2021). After playing together…
Congolese rumba, a popular and influential musical genre and dance from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo was inscribed in…
Moroccan band Issam Kamal and Mazagan are back together after 8 years. The group pioneered chaabi groove, an infectious mix of North African chaabi (shaabi),…
Acclaimed Quebec band Les Grands Hurleurs has a new album called Ellipse (La Compagnie du Nord). Ellipse showcases Les Grands Hurleurs’ traditional music style with…
Girls’ choir Kuželovské Zpěvulky (Singers from Kuželov) from the Czech Republic has released its second album, V Kuželově sú děvčata … jak tá malina (There…
Award-winning Jamaican bassist and producer Robbie Shakespeare, co-founder of Sly & Robbie passed way in Florida, USA on December 8, 2021. Robbie Shakespeare was a…
Witst noch dat d’r near wie (Makkum Records) is the second Frisian-language album from Zea, the project of Dutch musician Arnold de Boer. The album…