Angels Without Wings
Heidi Talbot Angels Without Wings (Compass Records, 2013) Heidi Talbot, the Irish singer gifted with one of the loveliest voices in the current Celtic music…
Backstage Acquires Band Platform Sonicbids
Backstage announced yesterday that it has acquired Sonicbids, the leading platform for bands to connect with promoters and market themselves online. The deal, financed by…
Intricate and Warm
Ballake Sissoko At Peace (Six Degrees Records, 2013) Ballake Sissoko’s follow-up to the 2009 recording Chamber Music with cellist Vincent Segal entitled At Peace is…
Bassekou Kouyate Releases Jama ko Today in Europe
Malian ngoni maestro Bassekou Kouyate has a new album titled Jama ko that is available today in Europe. The album was recorded by Howard Bilerman…
Multiple Modalities of Hand Drums
Hands On’semble Cinco Sobre Três – Fünf über Drei (2012) Hands On’semble is a group of four skilled percussionists who create original music inspired by…
Guitar Sounds from the Israeli Diaspora
Isra-Alien Somewhere is Here! (independent, 2012) Somewhere is Here! is the second album by guitar duo Isra-Alien. The two musicians come from different backgrounds to…
Documentary Presents Remarkable Disabled Musician and Dancer Sidiki Conde
You Don’t Need Feet to Dance, an first-hand documentary about African immigrant Sidiki Conde , a man who overcomes his disability one day at a…
CubAyiti
Haitiando CubAyiti, Volume 1 (Mini Records MRSD-2001, 1999) Wow! What a great album! Inspired perhaps by the success of Africando in fusing West African and…
Traditional Turkish Sufi Music
Du-Sems Ensemble Traditional Turkish Sufi Music (ARC Music, 2013) Dipping an ear into the intoxicating world of Sufi music is easy with ARC Music’s release…
Master Tamburitza Instrument Maker and NEA National Heritage Fellow Milan Opacich Dies at 84
Milan Opacich, a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow, master tamburitza maker and retired firefighter died Monday, January 21st, 2013. “It is…