Category: New Releases

Bassekou Kouyate from Mali is one of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa. He has collaborated with…

View More Ngoni Master Releases Segu Blue

London, UK – Urban Africa Club (Out Here Records/ OH 006) is a CD compilation of hip-hop, dancehall and kwaito from Africa featuring tracks by…

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New York City (New York), USA – Slavic Soul Party! is a brass band based in Brooklyn, New York, whose Teknochek Collision will be released…

View More Matt Moran Talks About Slavic Soul Party!’s New CD, Teknochek Collision

Paris, France – Gnawa Diffusion is an important French world music band, being a strong message holder of the idea of united peoples. Indeed, Gnawa…

View More Gnawa Diffusion’s Live Power on CD & DVD

San Francisco (California), USA – Love triangles, glitz, melodrama, music and tragi-comedy are all part of the hugely successful musical-movie genre known as Bollywood. The…

View More The Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold

Paris, France – A unique, unconventional sound piece, alternating between the energy of the song ‘Gamly’, the traditional sensuality of ‘Yarabi’ (a blues song with…

View More New Album for the Desert Blues Singer Malouma

Nashville (Tennessee), USA – For a kid from Glasgow, twenty-six year old Scotland native Roddy Hart has produced an incredibly fresh piece of American sounding…

View More Scottish Americana, This is Roddy Hart

The Rough Guide To World Music: Africa & Middle East (RGNET1181CD) highlights the dynamic and everchanging world music scene, and is released in conjunction with…

View More The Rough Guide To World Music: Africa & Middle East

Tinariwen, the Tuareg desert blues band has a new recording titled Aman Iman: Water is Life (World Village, March 20, 2007 North American release). The…

View More Andy Morgan Talks About Tinariwen’s New CD, Aman Iman