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).…
An Interview with Fado Sensation Mariza
Mariza is one of the rising stars of fado. She has one of the finest voices in the fado scene. Mariza brings together tradition and…
The Rough Guide To Salsa De Puerto Rico
San Francisco, USA – The new volume of the Rough guide collection, released this month, centers on Puerto Rico. The Caribbean island has become home…
Culduz – Murat Ses
Murat Ses Culduz (Clou Records, Clou-003, KALAN Music, Peacework Music) Culduz is the third and last part of Murat Ses trilogy. Culduz is a Turkic…
Bob Brozman Teams up with Debashish Bhattacharya
San Francisco, USA – Following from the critical acclaim of his albums with both Takashi Hirayasu and Renè Lacaille, American acoustic guitarist Bob Brozman has…
Victor Chorobik\’s Desert of Clouds
UK – Victor Chorobik, a Polish composer based in Canada, has recorded an album of sublime beauty entitled Desert Of Clouds(Iris Light, 2003). Written initially…
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…