Best World Music of 2024-2025 Season: Glitterbeat Scores Double Win As TWMC Turns 10
The Transglobal World Music Chart, now in its tenth year, announced the Best Albums and Labels for the 2024–2025 season. Best Album went to Buzz’…
‘Voar’ Carries Munir Hossn To 2025 Unsigned Only World Music Win
Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Munir Hossn won the 2025 Unsigned Only competition’s Global Music (world music) category with his song “Voar.” Hossn, who grew up in Bahia…
FluteFling Sets Aberdeen Weekend With Hamish Napier And Kirsten Allstaff
FluteFling returns to Aberdeen, Scotland, from Friday, October 31, to Sunday, November 2, 2025. The weekend features award-winning musician Hamish Napier and Kirsten Allstaff, the…
Darren Nicholson Says Goodbye To The Blues On “Get Me Down The Line”
Darren Nicholson has released a new single, “Get Me Down The Line,” via Mountain Home Music Company. The mandolin-wielding singer co-wrote the track with Charles…
Back To Avenue A: New York Gypsy Festival Turns 20 At Drom
The New York Gypsy Festival returns to the East Village for its 20th anniversary run at Drom from Sunday, November 9 through Wednesday, November 19,…
Alaa Zouiten: Flamenco Meets The Music of the Maghreb
Alaa Zouiten – Aficionado – Flamenco Moro (self-release, 2025) Aficionado – Flamenco Moro is a captivating project by Moroccan virtuoso musician Alaa Zouiten that effortlessly…
Vicente Navarro Brings Rural Song to the City With “Gañanada”
Madrid singer Vicente Navarro returns with “Gañanada,” a single that combines Spanish folk tradition with intrepid electronic minimalism. Known as a leading figure in Spain’s…
East Meets Best: Chettini’s ‘Oriental Soul’ Returns on Vinyl
Chettini and the Turkish Trio – Oriental Soul (Ironhand Records, 2025 reissue) Oriental Soul, the 1972 album by Turkish multi-instrumentalist Çetin Bükey, credited here as…
Dance and Learn
Combining Colombian and Brazilian inflections with a broader Latin feel, “Que Nada” by La Capi is supreme dance music that also contains a lyrical lesson…
Hermeto Pascoal, Legendary Brazilian Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist, Dies at 89
(headline image: Hermeto Pascoal – Photo by Gabriel Quintao) Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal died on September 13, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.…