Positive Vibration’s Festival of Reggae announces Full 2021 Line-up
The UK’s award-winning festival of reggae Positive Vibration will return yo Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on September 10 and 11, 2021. This year’s edition of the…
Top Flamenco Contest, Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas Reveals 2021 Winners
The 60th edition of the influential Flamenco contest Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas announced 2021’s winners. Granada-born singer cantaora Amparo Heredia Reyes, artistically…
Lokembe Act Acholi Machon Releases Sons of South Sudan
South Sudanese band Acholi Machon has a new EP album titled Sons of South Sudan (Good Deeds Music). The new material is being released in…
Six Degrees Releases Posthumous Recording by Cheb i Sabbah
Before he died in 2013, world fusion artist Cheb i Sabbah nearly completed a final recording. The song “Keep Coming Back” is the first single…
A 20th Anniversary Celebration of Besh o droM
Besh o droM – 20 (Fonó, 2019) Hungarian band Besh o droM celebrated its twentieth anniversary with the album titled 20, released in 2019. The…
Official Documentary Celebrates the Music of Scotland’s Runrig
The documentary There Must Be A Place provides a look into one of Scotland’s most popular folk-rock music bands. In 1973, two brothers and a…
Artist Profiles: Pablo Mayor & Folklore Urbano
While working as a professor of jazz at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota (Colombia) in 1998, Pablo Mayor began his personal search, a process of first…
Songs Inspired by Persian Music and Zoroastrian Prayers
Ariana Vafadari – Anahita (Quart de Lune, 2020) Anahita is the musical creation that came out of the friendship and artistic collaboration of two French-Iranian…
“Kingston Bolero” Transforms Classical Piece into Dub Reggae Ballad
“Kingston Bolero” is a single that takes the iconic original “Bolero” classical orchestral piece and transforms it into a dub ballad. Produced by Emanuele Della…
Acoustic Mediterranean Beauty Across Time
Efrén López and Christos Barbas – Atlas (Seyir Muzik, 2021) Two remarkable multi-instrumentalists and composers collaborate on ‘Atlas’ delivering exquisite, thoughtful performances on string and…