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    Silvana Estrada’s Charming Self-Produced ‘Vendrán Suaves Lluvias’

    Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote Records, 2025) Silvana Estrada frames Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Gentle Rains Will Come) as a document of recovery and…

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  • Album reviews

    The Last Poets’ Africanism Spins Back On Vinyl

    The Last Poets – Africanism (Africa Seven, 2024/2025 vinyl reissue) The Last Poets have reissued Africanism on vinyl. This formidable recording brings together spoken word…

    Angel Romero November 12, 2025 No Comments
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  • Album reviews

    Don Arbor’s ‘Hope Is Hard To Kill’ Enlists Stef Burns And Mads Tolling

    Don Arbor – Hope is Hard To Kill (self-release, 2025) San Francisco Bay Area singer-songwriter Don Arbor will release Hope Is Hard To Kill on…

    Ryan Emmert November 11, 2025 No Comments
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    Desert Grooves and Electrifying Energy : Noura Mint Seymali’s Yenbett

    Noura Mint Seymali – Yenbett (Glitterbeat Records, 2025) Visionary Mauritanian vocalist and ardin player Noura Mint Seymali returns with Yenbett. The album opens with two…

    Angel Romero November 9, 2025 No Comments
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    Tenzin Choegyal Unveils Be The Sky: a Call Toward Renewal, Courage, and Harmony

    Tenzin Choegyal – Be The Sky (2025) Tibetan-Australian artist Tenzin Choegyal is set to release his new album Be The Sky (ནམ་མཁའ་རང་གི་ངང་དུ་ཞོག།) in Australia on…

    Tyler Bennet November 8, 2025 No Comments
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  • Mike Mitchell- Hinge on the Gate cover artwork. A photo of Mike Mitchell with hands in his pockets.
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    Mike Mitchell’s “Hinge on the Gate,” a Bluegrass Heartbreaker

    World Music Central News Room November 13, 2025 No Comments
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    Walk This Way

    Tom Orr November 12, 2025 No Comments
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    New Voices for Ancient Prayer, Manizeh Unveils ‘Ashem Vohu’

    World Music Central News Room November 11, 2025 No Comments
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    Dual South American Sizzle

    Tom Orr November 10, 2025 No Comments
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    Irish Band Aldoc Drops “Koboko” Single

    World Music Central News Room November 9, 2025 No Comments
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    Quite Cool

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New Video from Jah Sun’s single ‘Ganjah Don’

World Music Central News Room August 27, 2010 No Comments

Reggae artist Jah Sun has a new video titled “Ganjah Don”. The video is a single from the new album, Battle of the Dragon, coming…

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M.O.D. Technologies To Release Albums by Method of Defiance

World Music Central News Room August 27, 2010 No Comments

Method of Defiance will release three albums in the next months. First, the immediately accessible Jahbulon (October 5th) featuring ten songs with vocalists Dr. Israel…

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Umeya at Festival Frigiliana Tres Culturas on Friday, 27th of August 2010

World Music Central News Room August 26, 2010 No Comments

Umeya will be at the prestigious Festival Frigliana Tres Culturas, in that fantastic enclave, in the Axarquía region of Malaga province, that was one of…

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Basin Street Records Signs the Iconic Rebirth Brass Band

World Music Central News Room August 26, 2010 No Comments

On this 5th anniversary week, as we remember the devastation and flooding that occurred after Hurricane Katrina due to poorly built levees, Basin Street Records…

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Balkan Brass Band Brass Menazeri at Ashkenaz in Berkeley

World Music Central News Room August 26, 2010 No Comments

Brass Menazeri will be performing tomorrow, Friday, August 27, at world music club Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center. Brass Menazeri is the Bay Area’s…

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New York World Festival 2010 – Music Around the Black Sea

World Music Central News Room August 26, 2010 No Comments

Music Around the Black Sea, the fourth edition of the New York World Festival, focuses on the diverse traditions of the dynamic Black Sea region,…

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Album reviews

Fiery Mezcla

Angel Romero August 25, 2010 No Comments

Pablo Menendez & Mezcla I’ll See You in Cuba (Zoho ZM201001, 2010) Mezcla, one of the leading Cuban contemporary jazz bands is back with an…

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Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival 2010 Spotlights the Multicultural Morph and Jubilance of Pan-Jewish Culture

World Music Central News Room August 25, 2010 No Comments

All roads lead to Canada’s Ashkenaz Festival, following the twists and turns of a boldly adaptive, constantly evolving Jewish culture. They are highways running from…

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Zakir Hussain at World Music Festival Chicago 2010 Opening Concert

World Music Central News Room August 24, 2010 No Comments

World Music Festival Chicago 2010, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, opens on Tuesday, September 21, at 6:00 pm, with a free concert at Millennium Park’s…

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Album reviews

Contradanza’s Mediterranean Travels

Angel Romero August 24, 2010 1 Comment

Contradanza Tentenelaire (Galileo Music/Nufolk NF012, 2010) Sevilla-based Contradanza is one of the leading groups in the new Andalusian folk movement. Together with Jerez’s La Jambre,…

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