San Francisco, USA – From the hardship suffered by black sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta nearly a hundred years ago, the blues, a deep soulful…
The Rough Guide To The Blues CD
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The Rough Guide to Salsa Dura New York City
San Francisco (California), USA – The Rough Guide series focuses on salsa music created in New York. With its thrilling, fast paced energy and hot-blooded…
A Double Dose of Celtic Music from Compass Records
Nashville (Tennessee), USA – Compass Records has announced the release of Oisín McAuley’s (Danú) solo debut, Far From the Hills of Donegal and the duet…
Freemuse Publishes Hidden Truths – Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenkas’ Belarus
Copenhagen, Denmark – In its latest report on music and freedom of expression around the world, Freemuse turns its attention to Belarus, an authoritarian former…
Ballads of the Book at Celtic Connections 2007
Glasgow, Scotland – Ballads of the Book is an album of collaborations between Scotland’s top writers, poets and musicians. The brainchild of Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble,…
Classical Music Hawaiian Style
New York (NY), USA – Guitarist Keola Beamer’s sixth Dancing Cat album, Ka Hikina O Ka Hau (The Coming of the Snow), is not a…
New CD by Eastern experimentalists Joi on Real World Records
UK – Having blazed a trail in the mid-1980s with their DJ-led mix of brittle breakbeats and flowing Eastern grooves – a trail that the…
Van Morrison Honored in Hollywood – EMI Releases New Compilation to Coincide
London, England – PRNewswire- Van Morrison’s company Exile Productions has announced an exclusive license with EMI Music for worldwide release of a new compilation titled…
Authentic Hungarian Village Music CD by Andrea Gerak & Barozda
Andrea Gerak has been often mentioned as “the enigmatic Hungarian female voice”, by fans and by the media as well. Andrea had her first stage…
Andy Narell Talks About His New CD Tatoom, Which Merges Jazz with Steelband
Cleveland (Ohio), USA – Andy Narell’s new CD, Tatoom: Music for Steel Orchestra (Heads Up HUCD-3122), will be out on February 27, 2007. With…