Tarika, Beasts, Ghosts and Dancing With History
New York, USA – Tarika 10: Beats, Ghosts and Dancing With History is a ten-year retrospective of one the most important bands in Afropop. The…
Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed
Tangle Eye Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed (Rounder, 2004) This CD has generated a lot of controversy because of its use of samples. New Orleans-based…
Missing Latin America
Various Artists World 2003: Music without Frontiers (Narada World 72435-90071-2-0, 2003) This is Narada’s annual sampling of “World Music” favorites from the hands of the…
Ethnoambient Salona 2004 Explores the Sounds of Greece and the Persian Gulf
Solin, Croatia — This year, Ethnoambient Salona celebrates its seventh anniversary. The annual festival takes place August 13 in Solin, Croatia. The musical guests this…
Bloody Good
Lila Downs Una Sangre [One Blood] (Narada 72435-76757-2-7, 2004) The U.K. magazine Songlines recently included Lila Downs‘ 2000 release Tree of Life as one of…
The Sardinian Tenores
The Tenores style of singing is the proof of the existence of polyphony in ancient age on the island of Sardinia. But it is difficult…
World Music Central’s Guide to World Music in London
London is one of the great international capitals for world music. It is the home of musicians and large immigrant communities from a multitude of…
Otto, Brazilian Top of the world potential
Otto Sem Gravidade (Trama T004/762-2) Great singer songwriters are usually guitarists or piano players. But in Brazil they are also percussionists. Airto Moreira, Naná Vasconcelos…
Diamond Fingers Mines a Gem
Sekou Bembeya Diabate Guitar Fo (Discorama WVF 497016 [distributed in the U.S. by World Village/Harmonia Mundi]) As lead guitarist and point man for longtime Guinean…
World Music Classics and New Sounds at Sfinks
Boechout, Belgium – Sfinks will be held July 29th till August 1st, 2004 in Boechout (Antwerp, Belgium). It is one of the largest world music…