Category: Album reviews

Sara Tavares Sara Tavares – Alive in Lisboa (Times Square Records/World Connection TSQCD 9068, 2008) Portuguese-born Sara Tavares has a new release coming out soon,…

Music from the Blue Nile (ARC Music EUCD 2212, 2009) Most mentions of Sudan nowadays are likely to be about the ongoing conflict there and…

Huddie William Ledbetter “Leadbelly” The Definitive Leadbelly: 60th Anniversary Edition (Proper Records, 2009) It never fails that someone in the crowd points out that Huddie…

Mamane Barka Introducing Mamane Barka (World Music Network INTRO114CD, 2009) Will every instrument originating on African soil eventually be heard by the rest of the…

Beoga The Incident (Compass Records, 2009) One of the hottest bands in Irish folk music has released its latest recording, The Incident (Compass Records 4499),…

Baaba Maal Television (Palm Pictures, 2009) Hang on to your hats music fans because Baaba Maal’s got a new CD that is set to hit…

Tiempo Libre Bach in Havana (Decca, 2009) Regarded by many as the leading timba (contemporary Cuban dance music) group in the United States, Tiempo Libre…

Klezmer Juice Yiddish Lidele (ARC Music, 2009) Although most of the klezmer music made in the United States seems to be concentrated in the northeast,…

Red Chamber Redgrass (Za Discs, 2009) Vancouver has become a hot bed for Chinese musical talent. Numerous leading musicians from mainland China and Hong Kong…