Hitting all the right notes
Various Artists – The Rough Guide to African Rap (World Music Network RGNET1126CD, 2004) Like all hugely proliferating music forms, rap, in its many guises, all-too-often,…
Cuban Flamenco Guitar Player Reynier Marino to Spain
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – Cuban flamenco guitar player Reynier Marino, who also fuses other musical genres, announced he would travel to Madrid…
Fusion Band Sintesis Presents Latest Production
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – The trilogy Ancestros, the latest album by Síntesis, one of the most famous bands in the current Cuban…
The Sounds of Precious Metal
Golden Sounds Band – Swahili Rumba (Naxos World 76055-2, 2003) Congolese rumba reigned so long as Africa’s most popular dance music that it’s no surprise how…
Wemilere Festival 2004 in November
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – Dedicated to the bicentennial of the independence of Haiti, Alejo Carpentier and late artist Martha Jean-Claude, the Wemilere…
Ruth Finesinger Kellam
Ruth Finesinger Kellam died on Thursday, March 4, at the age of 68. She was passionately involved with the Hyde Park Art Fair (serving on…
Hot Percussion Licks
San Francisco, USA – Conga drummer Raymond Simmons has released some of his famous techniques in the Hot Percussion Licks conga drum music lesson booklet…
L’Youm Dima, New Album by Emil Zrihan
Israel – Israeli musician and renowned vocalist Emil Zrihan has a new recording. Zrihan’s new album L’ Youm Dima was produced by the highly acclaimed…
Barefoot in Assisi
Arja Saijonmaa – Nära (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2003) Recently I came across a listing for Finnish vocalist Arja Saijonmaa in the Kirkelig Kulturverksted catalog and her most…
Let’s Hope They Stay
Mahmoud Fadl The Drummers of the Nile in Town (Piranha Musik CD PIR 1791, 2003) For his latest Drummers of the Nile outing (there’s been…