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).…
Diaspora London Music Village Festival Returns to Hyde Park in 2008
The summer Music Village – Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures – makes an immediate return to London’s Hyde Park Saturday 12 & Sunday 13…
21st Century Bossa Sensation Sabrina Malheiros Releases New Morning
Following her best-selling debut album ‘Equilibria‘, singer-songwriter Sabrina Malheiros returns with New Morning (Far Out FARO131CD, 2008), an album of 21st century bossa – soul…
Summerworld Brings World Music to Toronto in July 2008
Toronto, Canada – The Summerworld music series will take place from July 8 to 18. Continuing the tradition of discovery, Summerworld blazes a trail once…
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Make West coast Debut at Grand Performances’ California Plaza
The youngest son of Nigerian world music icon Fela Kuti will be performing at Grand Performances’ California Plaza Friday, June 20 at 8 pm. Seun…
PowerFX Releases All Them Beats
Stockholm, Sweden– PowerFX, the leading online distributor of loops and samples, unveiled this week All Them Beats, a definitive beat resource boasting more than 430…
Amos Hoffman releases Evolutin worldwide June 23rd
Guitar and oud player Amos Hoffman, who has been performing and recording as a member of Avishai Cohen’s band for more than two decades, will…
Fourth Annual Afrofunk Festival Returns to San Francisco in 2008
San Francisco (California), USA – Afrobeat is dense, funky, intricately-layered, groove-heavy music with an intrinsic message – delivered through polyrhythmic beats, the sweat of the…
Sergio Mendes Talks about His 2008 CD, Encanto
Brazilian music star Sergio Mendes talks about his new titled, Encanto, released in June 2008. The title, Encanto "is a beautiful Portuguese word that I…
Renovated Brazilian Legend Sergio Mendes Returns with Encanto
Sergio Mendes’ new album, Encanto, came out this week in North America. Encanto is the follow-up to 2006’s highly acclaimed collaboration with will.i.am called Timeless.…
Going Goema
Barry Van Zyl & The Bo Kaap Collective Goema Music From Cape Town, South Africa (ARC Music EUCD 2133, 2008) Woefully uneducated as I am,…