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: Bakyt Chytyrbaev
Kyrgyz musician Bakyt Chytyrbaev came across the kyl-kyjak in his early 20s. While traveling in neighboring Tajikistan he saw it in the hands of a…
Artist Profiles: Nurak Abdrakhmanov
Kyrgyz musician Nurak Abdrakhmanov was born in 1946. It was right after the end of World War 2. Nurak’s father and grandfather, both komuz players,…
Artist Profiles: Ilgi
In 1981, Ilga Reizniece formed the folk ensemble Ilgi. Like other folk musicians, the members of Ilgi spent time seeking out their elders – the…
Artist Profiles: Bassam Saba
Bassam Saba was a native of Lebanon, where he studied ‘ud, violin, and nay (Arab flute) at the Lebanese National Conservatory. In 1976, he moved…
Artist Profiles: Charbel Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana, one of the finest ud (also spelled oud) players in Lebanon. Born in 1965 in Aamchit (a town north of Beirut), Charbel pursued…
Artist Profiles: Claude Chalhoub
Born in 1974 in Lebanon into a family of musicians, Claude Chalhoub was introduced to the violin by his father who played the rebec. At…
Artist Profiles: Fairuz
Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon in 1935, Nouhad Haddad, better known as Fairuz, is an Arabic music superstar. She began her musical career as…
Delightful Scottish Fiddle Inspired by Short Stories
Aidan O’Rourke with Kit Downes – 365: Volume 1 (Reveal Records, 2018) 365: Volume 1 is a truly exquisite double album of instrumental music composed…
The 2018 ACCES Conferences, Showcases and Exhibitions to be Held in Kenya
The Music in Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases will be held November 15 – 17, 2018 at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi.…
Artist Profiles: Dozan Fujiwara
Dozan Fujiwara studied shakuhachi under Yamamoto Hozan. A graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts in 1995, Fujiwara participated in the International Shakuhachi Festival held…