Tombak In The Spotlight On Between Hands
Kaveh Mahmudiyan — Between Hands (Global Sonics, 2025) Kaveh Mahmudiyan’s first solo album, Between Hands presents his own compositions with the tombak (Persian goblet-shaped drum).…
Vieux Farka Toure On Summer 2011 Tour
Vieux Farka Touré will be returning to the US for a Summer Tour not to be missed. His third studio album, The Secret, continues to…
Francis Falceto Wins WOMEX 2011 Professional Excellence Award
Frenchman Francis Falceto is the winner of WOMEX 2011’s Professional Excellence Award. Francis Falceto is the originator and curator of the Ethiopiques series of CDs…
Timeless Afrobeat
Various Afro-Beat Airways – West African Shock Waves – Ghana & Togo 1972-1979 (Analog Africa AACD 068CD, 2010) Analog Africa’s director, Samy Ben Redjeb, has…
Canadian Sensation Dala Captured Live
Dala Girls From The North Country, Live in Concert (Compass, 2011) Dala has becopme one of the hottest acts in the North American folk pop…
Ray Santos Receives The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award
Mambo innovator Ray Santos has received The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award. Heralded as “El Maestro” of the mambo sound, Ray Santos has performed,…
Hard-edged Blues Dream
Moreland & Arbuckle Just a Dream (Telarc International, 2011) Grab keys, your sunglasses and forget the map because guitarist Aaron Moreland and vocalist/harpist Dustin Arbuckle…
Brazilian Sensation Luísa Maita to Begin North American Tour in August 2011
Brazilian singer Luísa Maita, is set to launch a coast to coast North American tour starting beginning August 14th. Luísa Maita recently awarded as the…
Cometh The Hour…Oud Maestro Joseph Tawadros Waxes Lyrical About His World-Jazz Album
A glaring anomaly concerning the annual ARIA Awards — the Australian equivalent of the Grammy Awards — is that Joseph Tawadros, one of the country’s…
The Yuval Ron Ensemble Live at the World Festival of Sacred Music
Yuval Ron Ensemble Seeker of Truth: The Yuval Ron Ensemble Live at the World Festival of Sacred Music (Yuval Ron Music, 2011) Recorded live at…
Sierra Maestra to Perform at University of Wisconsin-Madison World Stage Series 2011
Legendary Cuban band Sierra Maestra is scheduled to perform on Friday, March 23, 8pm at the Great Hall Dance Party on Friday, March 23, 2012,…