Alex Skolnick Planetary Coalition (Artist Share, 2014) Guitarist Alex Skolnick has jumped into the world music arena with a fabulous album titled Alex Skolnick’s Planetary…
Alex Skolnick’s Remarkable Cross-Cultural Acoustic Album
Category: Album reviews
Superb Indo-Swedish Fusion
Mynta Nandu’s Dance (Free Spirit/Discowkrs, 1999) This is a superb Indo-Swedish fusion band, not quite in the league of Shakti, but with a more diverse…
A Different Take on Australian Music
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Dawn (HopeStreet Recordings, 2014) It never fails when my local NPR station rolls out its Australian trip giveaway I get…
Alma Afrobeat Ensemble a Bright Spot on the Afrobeat Scene
Alma Afrobeat Ensemble Life No Get Dublicate (Slow Walk Music, 2014) Guitarist Aaron Feder and his kick ass crew Alma Afrobeat Ensemble are back with…
Splendid Ethiopian Piano
Girma Yifrashewa Love & Peace (Unseen Worlds UW13, 2014) Love & Peace is a crossover solo piano album by Ethiopian musician and composer Girma Yifrashewa.…
La Pegatina’s Mestizo Ability
La Pegatina Eureka! (Kasba Music, 2013) Mestizo-pop band La Pegatina delivers a wide-range of joyful musical genres on its fourth album titled Eureka! The panglobal…
Dynamic Trance World of Gnawan Music
Simo Lagnawi The Gnawa Berber (Riverboat Records/World Music Network, 2014) Right from the outset of Simo Lagnawi’s latest The Gnawa Berber the listener is flung…
A Delicious Bite On Afrobeat
Tony Allen Film of Life (Jazz Village, 2014) A drummer and musical director for Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Africa 70 for more than 10 years…
The Timple’s Mestizo Sounds
Beselch Rodríguez In-diferente (Multitrack, 2009) Beselch Rodríguez is part of a new generation of timple players in the Canary Islands that are creating new hybrid…
Sheer Joyfulness of Folk Tunes from the Globe
Wu Man, Luis Conte & Daniel Ho Our World in Song – An Odyssey of Musical Treasures (Wind Music, 2014) So, a Chinese pipa player,…