Bear Creek is a well-known Ojibwe (also known as Anishinaabe, or Chippewa) pow-wow group from Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario (Canada). Their album Kaagige –…
Bear Creek Present Forever
Category: Album reviews
Lusciously Seductive Kora
Sekou Kouyate Sabaru (One World Records, 2015) Son of kora player M´Bady Kouyate and cousin to Ba Cissoko, Guinean kora musician and composer Sekou Kouyate…
How Far Out There?
Are world music fans (particularly those of us who are in, uh, a certain advancing age bracket) a bunch of stodgy purists that don’t…
Global Sounds Stemming from the Sacred Forest
Holy Forest Holy Forest (2015) The Holy Forest album is a multidimensional musical project envisioned by musician, producer and documentary filmmaker Jon Fine. He brought…
Stimulating Yoruban Mix
Kuku Ballads and Blasphemy (Buda Musique, 2015) Nigerian musician Kuku questions religious dogma on Ballads and Blasphemy. Even though he was born in the United…
Irish Band Kila Releases “Am” Animated Video
Celebrated contemporary Irish folk music band Kila has a new music video created by Swedish animator and illustrator Mattias Gordon. This is Gordon’s second…
Pop Hits Through a Brazilian Filter
Badi Assad Hatched (IDC San Francisco, 2015) Guitarist and vocalist Badi Assad reconfigures pop hits on her album Hatched, transforming well-known songs into Brazilian-infused pieces.…
The Vital Quintessence of Cape Verdean Music
Lura Herança (Lusafrica 762352, 2015) Afro-Portuguese singer-songwriter Lura (Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina) celebrates her Cape Verdean roots and global music on her new album…
Delicious Encounter between Swiss and Mongolian Musical Traditions
Arga Bileg Ethno Jazz Band and Heiri Kanzig Quintet Agula: Swiss-Mongolian Music Exchange Project (Musiques Suisses, 2015) A Mongolian band and a Swiss jazz band?…
Musically Poetic and Inventive
Bachar Mar-Khalifé Ya Balad (InFine, 2015) With a musical pedigree that includes a degree from the Conservatory of Paris, work with conductors Lorin Maazel and…