Adriana Varela – Y piano (Sony Music Argentina, 2014) An intimate album featuring exclusive vocals and piano album by acclaimed Argentine tango singer Adriana Varela.…
Adriana Varela and Piano
Category: Album reviews
The Talented Gaelic Sounds of Bywater
Elias Alexander, Eamon Sefton, Kathleen Parks and Patrick Bowling Bywater (Fresh Haggis Music, 2016) Bywater is the debut by an American Celtic music band inspired…
Length & Time: Sevana Siren
I will be writing a column on Length & Time in music, in each presenting an album and its strategies that pertain to addressing Length & Time. The…
Mei Han and Red Chamber’s Globe-trotting Enchantment
Mei Han and Red Chamber – Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music (ARC Music, 2016) Dipping into the wonderful world of Chinese music, ARC Music is…
Chiaroscuro
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus – Chiaroscuro (Bent Records, 2016) For music junkies looking for something off the beaten path, you might want to…
Time-honored Songs of Western Siberia
Vasilyev Vecher – Siberia Land. Russian traditional songs of the Western Siberia (Sketis Music SKMR-108, 2014) The Vasilyev Vecher a cappella ensemble specializes in traditional…
Ferociously Cool Noura Mint Seymali
Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat Records, 2016) I remember looking at the photograph of Noura Mint Seymali on the cover of the 2010 Glitterbeat…
Bulgarian Clarinet Legend
Georgi Koev – Georgi Koev (1910-1983) Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet (BMA Productions BMA-1009 – Bulgarian Folk Archives collection, 2015) As the title indicates, Bulgarian…
Renovated Dance Music from Paris
Denécheau Jâse Musette – Amour Java (Buda Musique, 2016) This French revivalist ensemble plays a typically Parisian musical genre called musette. Denécheau Jâse demonstrate the…
Heartfelt Mornas of Cape Verde
Various Artists – Mornas De Cabo Verde (Lusafrica, 2016) Lusafrica has released a compilation that features some of the finest morna performers, ranging from the…