Afro-Celt Sound System Seed
Afro-Celt Sound System – Seed (Real World/Narada Records, 2003) On first listen, I found Afro-Celt’s fourth release to be heavy on the Celtic inspired washes…
Viktor Master’s Balkan World Music
London, England – Viktor Master (alias Viktor Mastoridis), a multi-instrumentalist songwriter born in Greece and brought up in Macedonia has published his World Fusion/New Age…
Indians Indians, New Robert Mirabal CD
Boulder, Colorado, USA – One the leading Native American performers, Robert Mirabal, a member of the Taos Pueblo tribe (New Mexico), has recorded a new…
Africando’s Martina” Due Out at the End of May
Paris, France – Africando have been around for some 10 years, on a quest to bring African music and its Diaspora together. They have already…
Sheila Chandra’s Indipop Retrospective
Sheila Chandra The Indipop Retrospective (Narada, 2003) There’s no great hardship in reviewing a Sheila Chandra CD – it’s just a simple matter of slipping…
Brave Combo Box of Ghosts
Boston, USA – Brave Combo has a new album out on Rounder Records titled Box of Ghosts. Brave Combo applies its über-groove sensibility to themes…
Ashley MacIsaac CD and Tour
New York, USA – Acclaimed virtuoso fiddler Ashley MacIsaac brings his blistering, Cape-Breton sound back to U.S. shores this May with his new self-titled album,…
Tania Libertad’s US Tour
New York, USA – Tania Libertad, one of Latin America’s most established singing stars, will be touring the United states later this year. Libertad finally…
Shafqat Ali Khan – Sublime Sufi
Shafqat Ali Khan Sublime Sufi (ARC Music EUCD 1798, 2003) This is one of the most pleasant surprises of 2003. Pakistani Qawwali singer Shafqat Ali…
Searching for my Voice, Jewish World Music
Toronto, Canada – Allan Soberman is a cantor’s son and a musician who has just released a new Jewish World Music CD, combining prayers in…