Bombino Nomad (Nonesuch Records, 2013) Hooking up with The Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, Tennessee,…
Bombino Ups the Ante on His Tuareg Desert Blues/Rock Sound
Category: Album reviews
Debashish Bhattacharya Goes into the Thrilling World of Fusion
Debashish Bhattacharya Beyond The Ragasphere (World Music Network , 2013) Indian slide guitar maestro Debashish Bhattacharya steps away from traditional Indian classical music on his…
R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman Awaken the Musical Fire
R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman Awakening the Fire (Canyon Records, 2013) Every once in a while I get one of those CDs that insists…
Zedashe Recovers Lost Georgian Traditions
Zedashe Intangible Pearls (Multiflora/Electric Cowbell, 2013) As unlikely as it may seem, a declaration and a civil war made the music on the Multiflora/Electric Cowbell’s…
Urban Folk Sounds of Trinidad
Kobo Town Jumbie In The Jukebox (Cumbancha, 2013) Cumbancha’s latest world music find is Jumbie In The Jukebox , the band led by Trinidadian singer-songwriter…
Vibrant And Alluring Vinicius Cantuaria
Vinicius Cantuaria Indio de Apartamento (Naïve, 2012) Many world music fans and those enamored with the Brazilian bossa nova will recognize Vinicius Cantuaria by such…
More Gems from the Barefoot Diva
Cesaria Evora Mãe Carinhosa (Lusafrica, 2013) The great Cesaria Evora had success late in her career. That means that she didn’t record too many albums…
Utterly Dazzling Bassekou Kouyate
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Jama Ko (Outhere Records, 2013) With recordings Segu Blue and the Grammy-nominated I Speak Fula to his credit, Mali’s…
Paris Combo’s Savvy Sound
Paris Combo 5 (DRG Records, 2013) With recordings like Paris Combo, Motifs, Living Room and Attraction to their credit, Paris Combo is back with 5,…
Steeped in Absolute Loveliness
Ludovico Einaudi In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa Music & Art, 2013) I’m going to stray off the path of the usual for World Music Central…