Danças Ocultas – Amplitude (Galileo Music, 2016) Danças Ocultas is a Portuguese diatonic accordion quartet that has developed an innovative sound that crosses musical boundaries.…
Portuguese Folk and Classical Music Intersections
Category: Album reviews
A Taste of Rudolstadt Festival
Various Artists – Rudolstadt Festival 2016 (Heideck, 2016) You can catch up with the latest in world music acts with this double CD compilation from…
The Smooth Global Sounds of the Shanti Orchestra
Ricky Kej – Shanti Orchestra (Raveolution Studios, 2013) Indian-American producer Ricky Kej released Shanti Orchestra in 2013. It’s a set of musical pieces that combines…
Passionate Songs and Infectious Afro-Cuban and Senegalese Rhythms
Orchestra Baobab – Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng (Word Circuit WC092, 2017) It’s no surprise that ‘Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng’, the new album by Senegalese band…
Tedeschi Trucks Band Live, a Special Experience
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Tedeschi Trucks Band Live From the Fox Oakland (Fantasy Records, 2017) With summer just around the corner many of you are…
Strange Fruit Expressions
Fabrizio Cassol – Strange Fruit (Outhere Music/Instinct Collection, 2017) Strange Fruit is a cross-genre project developed by Belgian saxophonist and composer Fabrizio Cassol, who has…
Healing Latin Jazz
Mari Nobre – “Live and Alive” (Chrome Records, 2017) Italian-American vocalist Mari Nobre (maiden name Mariangela Spiezia) recorded this album live at the Jan Popper…
Artist Profiles: Ben Sands
Ben Sands lives in Newry, County Down, close to the mountains and the sea and not far from the small farm where he and his…
Debashish Bhattacharya Meets Euro and American Jazz
Debashish Bhattacharya, Anders Lonne Gronseth, Kenny Wessel and Subhasis Bhattacharya – Bhattacharya – Grønseth – Wessel (Pling Music, 2017) The prolific Indian slide guitar maestro…
Mantras Accessing a Place of Mysticism
Sheela Bringi – Shakti Sutra (New Earth Records, 2017) Shakti Sutra is the new album by the Indian-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Sheela Bringi. While her…