Divanhana – Zukva (ARC Music, 2016) As a 2012 participant in the 12 Points Jazz Festival in Porto, Portugal and at the World Music Expo…
Delightfully Incandescent Divanhana
Category: Album reviews
Bulgarian Folktronics
Oratnitza – Folktron (Fusion Embassy, 2015) Oratnitza delivers a contemporary acoustic music vision of Bulgarian traditional music. On Folktron the band performs original pieces that…
The Healing Power of Music
Manish Vyas – Atma Bhakti – Healing Sounds of Prayer (New Earth Records, 2015) Let me say at the outset you not only want Manish…
Roma Brass Meets Klezmer
Cocek! Brass Band is a 5-piece brass band led by composer, vocalist and trumpeter Sam Dechenne. The group plays original music inspired by Balkan Gypsy…
Senegal Got the Blues
The West African Blues Project brings together Senegalese vocalist and percussionist Modou Toure (son of Toure Kunda singer Ousmane Toure) and British blues guitarist Ramon…
Traveling Pipa
Gao Hong and Friends – Pipa Potluck, Lutes Around the world (Innova, 2015) Chinese pipa master Gao Hong currently lives in Minnesota and gathered a…
Radio Friendly Idan Raichel
Although Israeli composer and singer-songwriter has collaborated with world music artists like Vieux Farka Touré, his solo works have very few connections with roots music.…
Phenoms at Celtic Colours Live
Various Artists – Celtic Colours Live – Volume 3 (2015) The Celtic Colours Live – Volume 3 contains 14 tracks recorded during the nine days…
An Ingenious Cornucopia of Celtic, Flamenco, Gypsy, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian
Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid – Subcontinental Drift (Century Media, 2015) With releases like Symphony (2013), Move (2011), Luna (2007) and Yalla Yalla! (2013)…
Enthralling Brew of Global music rooted in the Balkans
New York Gypsy All-Stars – Dromomania (New York Gypsy All-Stars, 2015) The Pan-Balkan ensemble New York Gypsy All-Stars has released a fantastic album that goes…