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).…
New Video from Jah Sun’s single ‘Ganjah Don’
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…
M.O.D. Technologies To Release Albums by Method of Defiance
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…
Umeya at Festival Frigiliana Tres Culturas on Friday, 27th of August 2010
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…
Basin Street Records Signs the Iconic Rebirth Brass Band
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…
Balkan Brass Band Brass Menazeri at Ashkenaz in Berkeley
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…
New York World Festival 2010 – Music Around the Black Sea
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,…
Fiery Mezcla
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…
Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival 2010 Spotlights the Multicultural Morph and Jubilance of Pan-Jewish Culture
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…
Zakir Hussain at World Music Festival Chicago 2010 Opening Concert
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…
Contradanza’s Mediterranean Travels
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,…