Bio Ritmo Puerta Del Sur (Vampisoul, 2014) Heaped with a slew of congas, timbales and enough brass to soothe your inner salsero, Bio Ritmo’s Puerto…
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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.
Infectious and Refreshing See-I
See-I Knowledge Shine Bright (Fort Knox Recordings, 2014) Following up on their 2011 self-titled release See-I, the Washington DC-based See-I is back with 12 new…
Junkyard Ball Downright Striking
Tero Hyvaluoma Junkyard Ball (Lusti Music/Sibelius Akatemia, 2013) Finnish fiddler Tero Hyvalouma has got regular gigs with his bands Frigg, Snekka, Haaga Folk Machine and…
Noura Mint Seymali, Musician and Vocalist Of Substance
Noura Mint Seymali Tzenni (Glitterbeat, 2014) There are all sorts of female vocals out there. There are the pop divas whose vocals trill endlessly up…
Caetano Veloso Dishes Out the Bare-Knuckled Rawness of His Vocals
Caetano Veloso Abraçaço (Nonesuch, 2014) With a career that includes more than thirty albums such as Domingo, Veloso, Gil e Bethania, Araca Azul, Brasil, Noites…
Imarhan Timbuktu Delivers the Desert Blues
Imarhan Timbuktu Akal Warled (Clermont Music, 2014) Those looking for a desert blues fix should check out Imarhan Timbuktu’s Akal Warled out now on the…
9Bach Defies Folk Conventions
9Bach Tincian (Real World, 2014) Tincian, the Welsh band 9Bach’s debut recording on the Real World label after their first self-titled 2009 import release, is…
The Colossal Sound of Sibelius-Akatemian Folk Big Band
Sibelius Academy Folk Big Band FBB (Siba Records SRCD-1012, 2014) Sibelius Academy Folk Big Band’s (Sibelius-Akatemian Folk Big Band) sound is gargantuan. Their release of…
Ernest Ranglin’s Barrel Full of Cool
Ernest Ranglin & Avila Bless Up (Avila Street Records, 2014) Opening up a barrel full of cool, the Jamaican musician and composer Ernest Ranglin, along…
Voluptuous Global Mix
Eccodek Singing in Tongues (Big Mind, 2014) Global fusion junkies are in luck because Canada’s Eccodek’s latest Singing in Tongues is set hit the streets…