Mary Youngblood Feed the Fire (Silver Wave Records, 2004) I have already listened to this CD a few times. Aleut Native musician Mary Youngblood’s limitless…
Songs of the Autumn Years
Category: New CDs and digital releases
Frigg: Finnish fiddling
Frigg Frigg (NorthSide NSD6079, 2004) Sharing a name with the Nordic goddess, Frigg, this septet marries Norwegian Hardanger fiddle with Finnish folk fiddling traditions. Frigg…
Salif Keita Returns With Remixes From Moffou
New York, USA – Known around the world as “The Golden Voice of Africa,” Salif Keita is back with Remixes from Moffou, based on his…
Drum Drum’s Album now available online
Australia – Drum Drum is one of the leading Pacific Traditional/contemporary performing groups. They have extensively toured the world with performances at Chicago World Music…
Imuntzo and Beloki Explore the Sounds of Urola
San Sebastian, Spain – Imuntzo and Beloki, the renowned pair of Basque accordionists has compiled old themes composed by historic accordionists from the Urola region…
Solo chants from the Arctic floes
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…
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…