Badi Assad Between Love and Luck (Quatro Ventos, 2013) With previous recordings like Rhythms, Echoes of Brazil, Wonderland and Chameleon, Brazilian guitarist, songwriter and vocalist…
Unique Blend of Pop, Jazz And Brazilian Music
Category: Album reviews
Music for the Inner Landscape
Bob Holroyd – In Motion (Sounds True, 2013) Shamans Dream – Prana Pulse (Sounds True, 2013) I’m going to stray from the well-worn world music…
Cheick Hamala Diabate Remixed
Cheick Hamala Diabate Prudence (Electric Cowbell Records EP-ECR709, 2013) The music of Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate gets remixed in this EP titled Prudence. Cheick…
Live from Festival in the Desert in Timbuktu
Various Artists Live from Festival Au Desert Timbuktu (Clermont Music, 2013) Mali is one of those extraordinary places where weddings, baptisms, celebrations and gatherings of…
Bombino Ups the Ante on His Tuareg Desert Blues/Rock Sound
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,…
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…