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The Camino Trunco cover presents a high-contrast illustration of a lone figure holding a guitar, rendered in black against a pale field. Around him, line drawings of rolling hills, village forms, and a mythic animal shape.

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Marco Grancelli Hits The Road With Camino Trunco

Marco Grancelli – Camino Trunco (self-released, 2025) Argentine musician and composer Marco Grancelli recorded Camino Trunco, his first solo album, in various studios throughout 2024…

Canto Con Vos by Guillaume Lopez. The cover shows a solitary figure seen from behind, facing a layered landscape where desert ground, small buildings, and distant mountains overlap beneath a turquoise sky.

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Canto Con Vos: Guillaume Lopez Hits The Road With A Mobile Studio

Iliana Cabrera January 18, 2026 No Comments Argentine music Guillaume Lopez tango world music

Guillaume Lopez – Canto con Vos (Irfan le Label, 2025) Singer and multi-instrumentalist Guillaume Lopez released Canto Con Vos (I Sing with You) in late…

Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical - Galaxia Tropical cover artwork. A photo of Ranil surrounded by ble, black and red geometric patterns.

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Galaxia Tropical Puts Ranil Back In Orbit

Iliana Cabrera January 5, 2026 No Comments Cumbia Amazónica Peruvian cumbia Peruvian music Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical world music

Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical – Galaxia Tropical – Analog Africa no. 43 (Analog Africa, 2026) Analog Africa will release Galaxia Tropical, a new compilation…

The cover for Zef by Jérémy Rollando presents an illustration of a sailboat gliding across deep blue waves. A beige sail tilts to the right. The artist’s name appears in black type, and the album title sits above in handwritten style.

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Jérémy Rollando Sets Sail With New Album Zef In 2026

Iliana Cabrera January 3, 2026 No Comments Bernardo Sandoval Camille Antona Cuarteto Tafi Édith Feytel Elsa Lopez Emmanuel Forster Estelle Besingrand Fred Friends’ choir Gabriel Sandoval Guillaume Lopez Jean-Luc Amestoy Jérémy Rollando José Montealegre Leo Les Impromptueuses Lopez family Luce Lopez Ludo Mateito Pablo Fagundes Pascal Rollando Serge Lopez Victoria world music

Jérémy Rollando – Zef (Label Montgolfière / Sphère France, 2026) French guitarist and composer Jérémy Rollando will release his second album, Zef, on January 9,…

La Cumbia Chicharra - Quinto Mundo © Clémentine Candela -Guillaume Parent. A neon-bright figure with a stylized human form sits against a dark, swirling backdrop, its hair exploding upward in electric blue flames.

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Cumbia Chicharra Blasts Off With Quinto Mundo

Iliana Cabrera December 29, 2025 No Comments Colombian music cumbia La Cumbia Chicharra world fusion world music

La Cumbia Chicharra – Quinto Mundo (Music Box Publishing / L’Autre Distribution, 2025 La Cumbia Chicharra, a France-based band deeply influenced by Colombian cumbia, recently…

The cover for Uádi by Raia presents a dark scene where scattered blue droplets drift across a shadowed sky. A glowing, layered rock formation rises on the right, outlined in pale lines that resemble natural striations. Sparse green plants cling to its edges. A sweep of turquoise water and earthy terrain appears on the left.

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Raia’s Uádi Pours Desert Rains Over The Viola Campaniça

Iliana Cabrera December 21, 2025 No Comments Portugal Portuguese music Raia viola campaniça world music

Raia – Uádi (Lusitanian LUS058, 2025) Portuguese musician António “Tó-Zé” Bexiga recently released Uádi, the new album from his solo project Raia. The record highlights…

Roger Glenn - My Latin Heart cover artwork. an illustration of Roger playing flute.

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Roger Glenn Returns With My Latin Heart with Vibes, Flute, And Fire

Iliana Cabrera December 15, 2025 No Comments Latin jazz world music

Roger Glenn – My Latin Heart (Patois Records, 2025) Veteran multi-instrumentalist and composer Roger Glenn released My Latin Heart in 2025, his first new album…

Andy Nevala - El Rumbón cover artwork. A photo of Nevala leaning on his piano.

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Andy Nevala’s “El Rumbón (The Party)”—Afro-Cuban Jazz, Reimagined

Iliana Cabrera December 3, 2025 No Comments Andy Nevala Cuban music Latin jazz world music

Andy Nevala – El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho, 2025) Virtuoso pianist, composer, and educator Andy Nevala has released El Rumbón (The Party), a tasty ten-track…

The cover of Día Precioso! by Ron Rieder features a blue sky and a single orange balloon floating upward. Below, two raised hands reach toward the balloon.

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Latin Jazz Spark: Ron Rieder Unveils Dia Precioso! with Boston All-Stars

Iliana Cabrera November 22, 2025 No Comments Latin jazz Ron Rieder world music

Ron Rieder – Dia Precioso! (2025) Ron Rieder’s Dia Precioso! is an eight-track set developed during a year-long collaboration with producer andarranger Ricardo Monzón. The…

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At Dawn with the Saglios

Iliana Cabrera November 20, 2025 No Comments Camille Saglio Matthieu Saglio world music

Matthieu & Camille Saglio – Al Alba (ACT Music, 2025) Al Alba (at dawn in Spanish) presents an exquisite, lovely, and intimate collaboration between two…