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    Strings In Flight As Cuerdas Trio Debuts Gentile

    Cuerdas Trio – Gentile (Visage Music, 2025) Cuerdas Trio introduces Gentile, a 2025 release that reflects the group’s cross-cultural identity and its commitment to dialogue…

    Madison Quinn December 24, 2025 No Comments
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    Dawn Beats Darkness: Murmurosi Reimagines Ukrainian Folk On Svitanok

    Murmurosi – Svitanok (Ukrainian Folk Reinvented) (Self-released, 2025) Murmurosi released the passionate Svitanok (Ukrainian Folk Reinvented) independently. The title means “dawn” in Ukrainian and draws…

    JGurski December 22, 2025 No Comments
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    Raia’s Uádi Pours Desert Rains Over The Viola Campaniça

    Raia – Uádi (Lusitanian LUS058, 2025) Portuguese musician António “Tó-Zé” Bexiga recently released Uádi, the new album from his solo project Raia. The record highlights…

    Iliana Cabrera December 21, 2025 No Comments
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    From Hallingdal To Homs: Spove’s Folk Flight

    Spove, Nawara Alnaddaf, Silje Risdal Liahagen, Inger Hannisdal, Adrian Myhr – Spove (Fiol, 2025) Norwegian-Syrian quartet Spove has released its debut album, Spove. The exquisite…

    Tyler Bennet December 20, 2025 No Comments
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    Zemog El Gallo Bueno Playful Return With New Album ¡Ya Tú Sabes!

    Zemog El Gallo Bueno – ¡Ya Tú Sabes! U All Reddy Noe (Pinch Records, 2025) ¡Ya Tú Sabes! (You Already Know) is the latest album…

    Angel Romero December 19, 2025 No Comments
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    Yule Log Polka: Karen Marshalsay’s Festive Harp Tune

    World Music Central News Room December 24, 2025 No Comments
  • Kathleen MacInnes -Santa Take Me Home cover artwork. A photo of a little girl by a Christmas tree.
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    Kathleen MacInnes Wants A Lift North On New Christmas Single “Santa Take Me Home”

    World Music Central News Room December 23, 2025 No Comments
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    Music videos Single reviews

    Got It Together

    Tom Orr December 22, 2025 No Comments
  • An illustrated landscape shows a lush forest opening to a stream and waterfall, framed by geometric Art Deco borders. A glowing sun sets behind distant mountains, while a lone figure beside a turntable listens by the water. Pastel typography centers the title “Love Garden” with “Double Tiger” beneath.
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    Love In Bloom – Double Tiger Grows New “Love Garden” Single

    World Music Central News Room December 19, 2025 No Comments
  • A lone bison strides across an open road at dusk, its dark silhouette set against a wide, amber-toned sky and distant plains. The title Saving Grace and the artist’s name appear above.
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    Robert Plant Drops New Everybody’s Song Video With Saving Grace

    World Music Central News Room December 18, 2025 No Comments
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    Persian Setar, Ambient Drama: Danial HM Teases New Single “Breath Of Eternity”

    World Music Central News Room December 17, 2025 No Comments

New CDs

Polo Montañez Group’s Album to be Ready by Late 2003

Angel Romero September 19, 2003

(Prensa Latina- Cumbancha) Pinar del Rio, Cuba – Cuestión de Suerte, album recorded in Colombia by the musicians who always accompanied Polo Montañez, will fulfill…

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General News

New Music Venue in Madrid

Angel Romero September 19, 2003

Madrid, Spain – LOW is a new a new club in the center of the Spanish capital, that will welcome those musical projects (live and…

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Album reviews

Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War

TJ Nelson September 19, 2003 Spanish music

Various Artists – Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War (Appleseed Recordings, 2003) Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War,…

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Tour Announcements

Ghazal US Tour 2003

Angel Romero September 18, 2003

New York, USA – The international group Ghazal will be touring the United States in the fall of 2003. Ghazal plays Persian and Indian improvisations.…

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General News

World Music Webcast Keeps World Music Alive 24/7

Angel Romero September 17, 2003

San Diego, USA (PRWEB) September 16, 2003 – World Music Webcast is an Internet broadcast service of The World Music Radio Society, a non-profit educational…

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Tour Announcements

Music Crossroads winners "Tikhu Vibrations" (Malawi) on tour in Europe

Angel Romero September 17, 2003

Brussels, Belgium – Tikhu Vibrations, the winners of the 4th Interregional Music Crossroads Festival held in Tanzania in January 2003, will be touring in Sweden,…

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Editorials

Nice Thighs, But What Are You Selling?

TJ Nelson September 16, 2003

Not too long ago, World Music Central received a press packet promoting the musical group called ‘bond.’ The group is a string quartet of highly-trained…

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New CDs

Arabesque meets the swinging 60’s

Angel Romero September 16, 2003

Jane Birkin Arabesque (EMI France/Narada World, 2003) It’s odd how our society feels so much nostalgia for the swinging sixties and this era’s icons. And…

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Articles

Songs of the Matriarchs: The Saharawis

Angel Romero September 15, 2003

Starry Nights in Western Sahara (Rounder Records, 2003) Song of Umm Dalaila: The Story of the Saharawis (documentary film, 1996) Beat of Distant Hearts (documentary…

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Interviews

Interview with Saharawi Singer Mariem Hassan

World Music Central News Room September 15, 2003

Mariem Hassan expresses herself naturally in Hassania, the language of the Saharawis, but has serious difficulties with Spanish. That’s why she has rarely agreed to be…

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