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 Boris Kovac Release: World After History
Berlin, Germany – With his new band La Campanella, Boris Kovac, composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from the Vojvodina part of Yugoslavia, presents the first…
Seven Springs Mountain Resort Announces Summer Concert Series
Champion, Pennsylvania, USA (PRNewswire) – Seven Springs Mountain Resort has a full slate of summer concerts for 2005. The resort has been developing as a…
More Artists Added to California WorldFest 2005
Grass Valley, California – World music festival California WorldFest 2005, which is hel July 14-17, 2005, announced the addition of Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati…
World Music Fundraiser for the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Madrid, Spain – Last night, the first part of a three-day festival, was held in Madrid (Spain) to raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa.…
Nitta Oyako, Father & Son Tsugaru Shamisen Duo, Tours the US
New York City , USA – Nitta Oyako will be performing at Joe’s Pub in Public Theater in New York City on May 3, 2005.…
A Kurdish Star
Sivan Perwer Min Bêriya Te Kiriye (Daquí 332022, 2003) Very few recordings of Kurdish music are widely available outside the Middle East. This is one…
Soweto Gospel Choir on Stage
By Susan Budig [this article first appeared in Mshale newspaper] Silhouetted on stage against a slate gray backdrop, Sipokazi Luzipo’ clear alto voice calls out…
Africa End to End
Moh Alileche – North Africa’s Destiny? (Flag of Freedom Productions/City Hall Records FFP 004, 2004) Various Artists – Ancient Civilizations of Southern Africa (ARC Music…
Tibetan Narrative Music
Victor Chorobik is a multi-instrumentalist who creates evocative electronic atmospheres combined with acoustic instruments. The synthesizers are mixed with flutes, duduk, saxophones, clarinet, violin, viola…
Celtic Sounds from el Bierzo
Aira da Pedra – Arantigua (Armando Records ARD-057, 2004) The region of El Bierzo is lesser known than Galicia or Asturias, two Celtic regions in…