Superb and Masterful Hafez Nazeri
Hafez Nazeri Rumi Symphony Project Cycle 1 Untold (Sony Classical, 2014) There are music critics out there that sit back stone faced like some disinterested…
Haitian Cross-pollination and Compas Explosion
Various Artists Haiti Direct – Big Band, Mini-Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Strut Records STRUT093, 2014) This 2-CD compilation showcases the exciting Haitian music scene…
Dynamic Pairing
Daby Toure and Skip McDonald Call My Name (Real World Records, 2009/U.S. release 2014) Music fans looking for a little sunny bounce might want to…
Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain& The Masters of Percussion to Perform in Durham and New York
Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain and The Masters of Percussion are set to perform at Durham Performing Arts Center (Durham, NC) on Thursday, March 27…
Roots Music Festival Old Settler’s Music Festival Reveals 2014 Lineup
The 27th Old Settler’s Music Festival announced the lineup for this year’s edition of the festival. The popular gathering of American roots music will take…
Playing For Change Announces 3rd Album: Songs Around The World
The album Playing For Change 3 “Songs Around The World” will be released June 17th, 2014. The CD/DVD set includes performances from Keith Richards, Sara…
A World Beneath The Ocean
Rahul Sharma Samandar (Music Today, 2006) “Samandar is all about life beneath the ocean. About the colors of the sea,” according to santoor virtuoso Rahul…
Terakaft Releases The Tapsit Years
Tuareg desert blues group Terakaft is releasing an album of highlights titled Terakaft The Tapsit Years. Between 2007 and 2011, the band recorded three studio…
Meet the Iberian divas
The European music media has tagged them the new queens of flamenco and fado, the soulful Iberian counterparts of blues. They’re both extraordinary singers, blessed…
Utterly Evocative and Imaginative Anne Hytta
Anne Hytta Draumsyn (Carpe Diem Records, 2014) Stepping off the well-worn path of world music, I don’t often come across solo hardanger fiddle (a Norwegian…