Wimme Saari Instinct – solo joiks (NorthSide, 2004) While I enjoy Sami joik singer Wimme Saari’s electronic recordings, I often found myself wondering when he…
Solo chants from the Arctic floes
Category: New CDs and digital releases
Electric Gypsyland
San Francisco, USA – Six Degrees releases today Electric Gypsyland. The album brings together the old and the new with remixers from the U.K., Brazil,…
TJ Rehmi\’s Warm Chill
London, England – British musician TJ Rehmi has a new recording on the Dharma Moon label entitled The Warm Chill. It is his fifth full-length…
Cuban Music Treasures Available on Disc
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – True greats in Cuban music, both past and present, appear on eight discs made by EGREM Studio and…
Xiberoko kantüak
San Sebastian, Spain – Xiberoko kantüak (Elkar, 2004) is a careful selection of original historic recordings of traditional songs from Zuberoa (a province in France’s…
Mamouat Abde ElHakim, Direct from the Djma al Fna
Seattle, USA – Post World Industries has released an Internet only album titled Direct from the Djma al Fna, Marrakesh, Morocco by Majmouat Abde ElHakim.…
Andy Narell records with 30-Piece Steel Orchestra Calypsociation
Cleveland, USA – Andy Narell has a new recording titled The Passage, which features Narell, the steelband Calypsociation, and three of the greatest soloists in…
Susan McKeown’s World Celtic Sounds
Burbank, California, USA – World Village has released Sweet Liberty, the latest album by Irish vocalist Susan McKeown. She assembled a small group of extraordinary…
Césaria Évora Remixed by International Contemporary Dance/Electronic Innovators
New York, USA – Club Sodade: Cesaria Evora is the follow-up to Évora’s critically acclaimed 2003 Bluebird/Arista Grammy-winning Voz D’Amor. It also marks the much-anticipated US…
Isn’t it Good, Norwegian Wood
Maria Solheim – Frail (Kirkelig Kulturverksted) Jan Eggum & Blatur – Everybody’s Doing It (Kirkelig Kulturverksted) A plethora of singer-songwriters hail from Norway. And while…