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).…
Tracing Armenian Links to Persian Classical Music
Los Angeles (California), USA – On Endless Vision, Armenian duduk virtuoso Jivan Gasparyan and Iranian instrumentalist Hossein Alizadeh have recorded a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Within Iran,…
Ud Master Rabih Abou-Khalil Releases Journey To The Centre Of An Egg
Montreal, Canada – Lebanese-born ud master Rabih Abou-Khalil has a new album out, Journey To The Centre Of An Egg, on Justin-Time/Enja, his 11th Enja…
Chants Encounter
Vocal Baobab Yoruba Dream: Afro-Cuban Chants (ARC Music EUCD 1965, 2005) The Yoruba pantheon of deities forming the basis of the Santeria religion have their…
Songs of the Lark: Folk Sounds from the Past
The Lark in the Morning (field recording, 1955), folk songs and dance from the Irish countryside (Tradition Records) The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1959),…
Legendary Recordings from Spanish National Radio Archives
Various Artists – Nuestro Flamenco, Vol. 1 (RTVE Música, 2004) Antonio Mairena – Actuaciones históricas (RTVE Música, 2005) Spanish National Radio (RNE) and Spanish National…
Exploring the New Sounds of Brazil
Brazil is a country with an incredibly rich variety of music and World Music Central has received a large number of new CDs from the…
African Convergence
Nuru Kane Sigil (Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD 1041, 2006) This dynamic disc was recorded in a Scottish country cottage and a Paris studio, but…
Máilbmi – Indigenous Music on Swedish Radio
This spring there will be a new music show at Swedish National Radio on Channel P2. The name of the new show is Máilbmi (World…
Land of Fiddlers
Scandinavia is a land of excellent fiddlers. In the past months, a new batch of recordings featuring top folk violinists from the Nordic countries…
Hugh Masekela Added to Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Line-up
Silk Hope (North Carolina), USA – The Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance has announced the addition of Hugh Masekela to the…