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).…
Artist Profiles: Carlos Piñana
Carlos Piñana is the youngest of the Piñana saga, a family of deep flamenco tradition that started with the patriarch, his grandfather Antonio Piñana, a…
Artist Profiles: Camerata Meiga
Camerata Meiga started off as the natural development of a previous musical existence as Xeque Mate (Checkmate). They had recorded two albums under that name:…
Raga Jazz from Washington DC
On All Barriers Fall (Buzkhashi Rercords, 2018), Washington DC-based Broto Roy Quartet plays original melodic pieces and improvisation, where Indian music meets American jazz. The…
Artist Profiles: Camarón de la Isla
“You only had to listen to Camarón once to know that he was a genius” – Paco de Lucía. Camarón de la Isla was one…
Urna and Kroke, a Well-Designed Collaboration
Urna and Kroke – Ser (Urna Chahar-Tugchi / Uct, 2018) One would think that teaming up a singer born to nomadic herders on the Ordos…
Anouar Brahem to Perform Blue Maqams in London
Tunisian composer and oud maestro is set to perform on Friday, March 15, 2019 at Barbican Hall in London. The concert draws together Brahem’s profound…
Artist Profiles: Buika
Buika (pronounced BWEE-kah) was born Concha Buika on the Spanish island of Mallorca, to parents who arrived to Spain as political exiles from Equatorial Guinea.…
Artist Profiles: Biella Nuei
Since 1984 Biella Nuei have been studying, recovering, expanding and popularizing traditional music from Aragon, a region situated in the north of Spain, below the…
Artist Profiles: Berrogüetto
Berrogüetto was a crucial band in the Galician folk music scene. The six members of the band had great careers before starting this project, as…
Artist Profiles: Bernarda de Utrera
Bernarda de Utrera was born Bernarda Jiménez Peña in 1927, in Utrera, near Seville. She came from a legendary family of Flamenco performers. Bernarda was…