Louisa Lyne & Di Yiddishe Kapelye – A Farblondzhete Blondinke (Maestro Music MMCD004, 2015) Malmö-based vocalist and composer Louisa Lyne has focused most of her…
Nordic Klezmer
Category: Album reviews
Shams: Tajik Jazz
Baraka – Shams (Sketis Music, 2015) Shams is a 2-CD set by Latvian band Baraka. They describe their music ethno jazz, a term used in…
Stambeli through a Jazz Perspective
Nasheet Waits, Vincent Ségal, and Yacine Boularès – Abu Sadiya (Accords Croisés, 2017) Abu Sadiya is a jazz album inspired by Stambeli, a type of…
Melodic Kora Designs
Kane Mathis – Counterpoints (2017) American composer and multi-instrumentalist Kane Mathis has been a student and player of the West African kora for many years.…
Timelessly Crafted Welsh Songs
Gwyneth Glyn – Tro (bendigedig BENDI1, 2017) Tro is the first release on a new label called bendigedig which is dedicated to Welsh music talent.…
Entrancing Chadenn
Le Bour – Bodros – Chadenn (Paker Productions, 2016) Timothée Le Bour and Youen Bodros is a duo that performs contemporary acoustic music inspired by…
Southwestern Healing Flute
Jonah Littlesunday – Gratitude – Native American Flute Healing (Canyon Records, 2017) Gratitude – Native American Flute Healing is an album of meditative flute music…
The Fascinating Folk Music Traditions of Horňácko
Various Artists – Antologie moravské lidové hudby – CD 1 – Horňácko (Indies Scope, 2011) Antologie moravské lidové hudby – Horňácko is the first volume…
Rubén Blades’ Tribute to Legendary Latin Music Big Bands
Rubén Blades – Salsa Big Band (Rubén Blades Producciones, 2017) Rubén Blades, one of the undisputed masters of salsa music, has released his second album…
Dutch Tangueros
El Juntacadaveres – Twists and Turns (Zimbraz/Music & Words, 2015) El Juntacadaveres (the corpse gatherer) is a Netherlands-based band led by Argentine multi-instrumentalist Enrique Noviello.…