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).…
WOMAD 2011 Line-Up at Bristol Zoo Announced
The wild night of world music, frivolity and the extraordinary setting of the Bristol Zoo is fast becoming a once in a life time experience.…
Tilburg’s Gipsy Festival to celebrate its 15th anniversary this month
The next festival I will be covering is the Gipsy Festival in Tilburg, Holland, May 28-29. Held over a weekend, it features music and dance…
Vieux Farka Toure Discloses the Secret
Vieux Farka Toure The Secret (Six Degrees, 2011) “Do you want to know the secret? You have to listen to the album,” so says Vieux…
Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma and friends to Perform with 400 Silk Road Connect Students in New York on June 7, 2011
For 2011’s City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage opening night, 400 New York City sixth-graders and their teachers will perform with the internationally acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble…
Luring Latin Lovers
Rumba, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha (Putumayo, 2011) Empresarios – Sabor Tropical (Fort Knox Recordings, 2010) Chancha Via Circuito – Rio Arriba (ZZK Records, 2010) My…
Brave Futuristic Fania
Hammock House ‘Africa Caribe’ (Fania Records 2011) Hammock House ‘Africa Caribe’ is a two CD collection that gives new life to classic Latin jazz and…
Havana Musical Secrets
Tiempo Libre My Secret Radio (Sony Masterworks, 2011) Tiempo Libre is undoubtedly one of the best timba band in the United States. Timba is the…
Rhythms of Black Peru Compilation to Be Released May 24, 2011
The Rhythms of Black Peru compilation of Afro-Peruvian music will be released May 24, 2011 on sdecret Stash Records. From the mid 1950s through the…
Dengue Filters
Dengue Fever Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group, 2011) The Cambodian, surf, garage band Dengue Fever has hit the streets with their latest Cannibal Courtship,…
Canadian Band Genticorum to Go on Tour to Present New Album Nagez Rameurs
Quebecois trio Genticorum will tour the United States and Canada to resent their new album tiled Nagez Rameurs (“Pull Together, Paddlers!”). Band members include Yann…