Various Artists Hear Globally: A Cumbancha Collection (Cumbancha, 2009) Regular World Music Central readers will recognize many of the artists on the clever sampler Hear…
Cumbancha’s Craft
Category: Album reviews
A Tavares Triple
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,…
Kind of Blue
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…
Leadbelly, the Ultimate Road Rambler
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…
Last of His Kind
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 on Anabolic Steroids
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 Turns the Table on Television
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…
Bach Goes Cuban
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…
California Klezmer
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,…
Chinese Pickin’
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…