Cliff Furnald Launches New FM and Online World Music Show RootsWorld Radio
RootsWorld editor and radio host Cliff Furnald has a new weekly radio program called RootsWorld Radio on FM and online at www.RootsWorld.org Each week, Cliff…
View More Cliff Furnald Launches New FM and Online World Music Show RootsWorld RadioHoquets to Bring Belgotronics to London
Hoquets is set to bring its Belgotronics sound to The Vortex Jazz Club in London on June 8, 2012 at 19:00. Influenced by the Congotronics…
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The University of North Texas Zebras Jazz Flamenco Project has won several DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards. The Flamenco Project is led by Spanish pianist…
View More UNT Zebras Jazz Flamenco Project Wins DownBeat Student AwardsZamrock Legend Witch Releases We Intend To Cause Havoc! Boxed Set
Witch We Intend To Cause Havoc! (Now-Again Records, 2012) Very little sub-Saharan rock music ever made it outside of Africa. In Zambia there was a…
View More Zamrock Legend Witch Releases We Intend To Cause Havoc! Boxed SetImpressions of Babel Méd Music 2012
The eighth edition of Babel Méd Music – Forum des Musiques du Monde took place March 29-31, 2012, in the French city of Marseilles. The…
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Marcel Khalife Fall of the Moon (Nagam Records, 2012) Listeners dipping into Marcel Khalife’s double CD Fall of the Moon will surely find a cool…
View More Cool ElixirBrooklyn Flamencos
Caramelo Ride (independent, 2012) Caramelo is an American band from New York City, composed of musicians and flamenco dancers inspired by Spanish flamenco hybrids as…
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Rob Make It Fast Make It Slow (Soundway SNWLP0490, 2012) The Soundway label presents another of its amazing African music discoveries. Make It Fast Make…
View More Slow FunkCanadian Music Community Mourns the Passing of Musician and World Music Promoter Billy Bryans
Billy Bryans, winner of Canada’s prestigious Juno Award and a respected world music promoter, died peacefully in Toronto yesterday, April 23rd, at the age of…
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Kamerunga Worlds Kaleid (Kamerunga Records, 2012) Sliding the northeastern Australian band Kamerunga into a genre would be a bit like putting a sweater on my…
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