Various Artists – Brussels A World of Music (Wallonia Brussels Music WBM 175, 2016) This compilation is designed to showcase the world music talent found…
The Wide-Ranging Diversity of Brussels A World of Music
Category: Album reviews
Virtuosic Jazz Explorations of Afro-Latin and World Music
Duende Libre – Duende Libre (2017) Duende is the self-titled debut album by a Latin jazz trio featuring three talented Seattle-based musicians. The project is…
Eliane Elias Celebrates Her Roots
Eliane Elias – Dance of Time (Concord Jazz, 2017) USA-based Brazilian pianist and vocalist Eliane Elias has become of the most familiar names in the…
Folk Rockers from Nunavut
The Jerry Cans – Inuusiq (Aakuluk Music, 2017) Canadian band The Jerry Cans is based in Nunavut, in Canada’s far north. On Inuusiq they present…
Lush Observations
Tigran Hamasyan – An Ancient Observer (Nonesuch Records, 2018) Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you heard a piano recording? Seriously, when…
Moving Ragas from the Kirana Gharana
Mashkoor Ali Khan – Transcendence (Nimbus Alliance, 2017) Transcendence is a set of 5 ragas performed by Indian classical music maestro Mashkoor Ali Khan. The…
Thornato’s Fascinating Global Travels
Thornato Bennu (Wonderwheel Recordings, 2017) Thornato, the artistic name of American producer Thor Partridge, takes the listener on a global electronica voyage across the Americas,…
Dona Onete’s Sensual Songs from the Amazon
Dona Onete – Banzeiro (Mais Um Discos, 2017) An album by charismatic Brazilian Amazonian singer Dona Onete. Her songs are about seduction, plants that make…
Vieux Farka Toure Delivers a Masterful Collection of Desert Blues, Funk, Reggae, and Rock
Vieux Farka Toure – Samba (Six Degrees Records, 2017) Too often when we hear “it must be something in the blood” it conjures up images…
Different Threads of Indian Fusion
Rakkatak – Small Pieces (Rakkatak RA017, 2017) Rakkatak is a Canadian duo led by tabla master Anita Katakkar and bassist Oriana Barbato. Their album Small…