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).…
Txilibrin, Basque Musician Dies at 91
Sopela, Biscay, Spain – A legendary figure in Basque music, Silvestre Elezkano, a.k.a. “Txilibrin,” died this week in Spain’s Basque Country. Txilibrin (pronounced chee-lee-breen), born…
Taj Mahal’s Hanapepe Dream
Taj Mahal Hanapepe Dream (Tone-Cool/Kan-Du Records, 2003) For those feeling a little listless and slothful in the grip of summer’s dog days, let me suggest…
Klezmer Gypsies Take The Stage
Les Yeux Noirs Live (World Village 4680190, 2003) Led by classically-trained violinists Eric and Olivier Slabiak, Les Yeux Noirs created one of last year’s more…
Preaching to the Choir
Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria Mechemetio (Intuition, 2000) Bulgarian choir music and folk dance drew awareness in the West when 4 AD Records released records by…
California Singing
Deborah Falconer – Brave like me (Ravish, 2003) A life of singer-songwriter is a hard one. Any songwriter can come up with interesting chord progressions…
Rare Gift Goes to Storage
Paris, France – Recently, the Musée de la Musique in Paris received a rare gift – Django Reinhardt’s last Selmer guitar – and promptly relegated…
Call for Applications! Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX)
Los Angeles, USA – The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) is an international artists residency program that promotes cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary exploration; develops rigorous…
Disco d’Afrique
Kaleta Kaleta Jaa (Kaleta Music, 2003) West African rhythms mixed with thumping disco beats and lots of programming, sadly has become the latest trend. This…
Sarod player Arnab Chakrabarty – USA 2003
USA- On the heels of the release of his debut Album Another Blue Moon, Indian classical sarod player Arnab Chakrabarty will be touring in the…
Colombia Goes African
Batata y Su Rumba Palenquera Radio Bakongo (Network 24.127, 2003) About 300 years ago, a group of escaped African slaves barricaded themselves in a safe…