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    Spellbinding Shadow Folk: Antinoë Bends Darkness On ‘The Fold’

    Antinoë – The Fold (Dark Essence Records, 2025) Antinoë presents The Fold, a hauntingly beautiful chamber-like convergence of neoclassical folk, melancholy pop, progressive rock-style arrangements…

    Angel Romero January 13, 2026 No Comments
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    Young Flowers Reclaims Kazakh Roots in Russia

    Various Artists – Young Flowers: Music of Kazakhs from Orenburg Region (Antonovka Records, 2024) On Young Flowers, a field recording compilation from the Adamovsky district…

    Tyler Bennet January 12, 2026 No Comments
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    Chicago Songwriter Dana Maragos Goes National With Unimaginable Things

    Dana Maragos – Unimaginable Things (Dana Maragos, 2025) Dana Maragos released Unimaginable Things nationwide on December 12, 2025. The album first came out as a…

    Ryan Emmert January 11, 2026 No Comments
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    Joy In Motion: Júlia Kozáková’s Manuša II Celebrates Romani Roots

    Júlia Kozáková – Manuša II (CPL-Music, 2025) With Manuša II, Slovak singer Júlia Kozáková extends her Manuša project that centers on Romani (Gypsy) music from…

    JGurski January 8, 2026 No Comments
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    Galaxia Tropical Puts Ranil Back In Orbit

    Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical – Galaxia Tropical – Analog Africa no. 43 (Analog Africa, 2026) Analog Africa will release Galaxia Tropical, a new compilation…

    Iliana Cabrera January 5, 2026 No Comments
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Featured News

  • Congolese French Connection

    Tom Orr January 13, 2026 No Comments
  • Bass & Riddim Workshop What We Have cover artwork. an image of palm trees over an orange red background.
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    Romanian Riddim

    Tom Orr January 12, 2026 No Comments
  • Della Mae Magic Accident cover artwork. a phyo of the four women wearing colorful pants and shirts including pik, red, blue and orange.
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    Della Mae Grow Their “Family Tree”

    World Music Central News Room January 11, 2026 No Comments
  • A landscape fills the frame, where soft desert dunes fade into a pastel horizon beneath a vast, curved celestial form.
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    Altın Gün Revives A Turkish Folk Classic With “Neredesin Sen”

    World Music Central News Room January 8, 2026 No Comments
  • A Havana street stretches into the distance, lined with pastel colonial buildings and a row of brightly colored 1950s American cars rolling forward in formation.
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    A Mountain of Cuban Roots

    Tom Orr January 7, 2026 No Comments
  • The Dark Clouds single cover presents a landscape under storm clouds illustrated in carved lines. A streak of red suggests a winding path or road cutting through dark terrain, while a thin glow of light breaks through the heavy blue and black sky. The title appears in white lettering at the center, with Jesse Smathers’ name placed in the lower right corner.
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    Jesse Smathers Chases The Light On New Single “Dark Clouds”

    World Music Central News Room December 26, 2025 No Comments

Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Zein Al-Jundi

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 1 Comment SyriaSyrian musicZein Al-Jundi

Zein Al-Jundi was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. She began singing professionally at the early age of five and over the next 12 years…

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Artist Profiles: Yungchen Lhamo

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments Tibetan musicYungchen Lhamo

Yungchen Lhamo was born near Lhasa, Tibet at a time when the isolated ‘forbidden kingdom’ was caught in the ravages of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.…

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Artist Profiles: Yat-Kha

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments Russiathroat singingTuvan musicYat-Kha

Yat-Kha started in 1991 in the hyper-industrial Siberian steel-belt city of Boris Yeltsin’s then home-town of Sverdlovsk. Albert Kuvezin – taking a holiday from the…

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Artist Profiles: Yange Yange Trio

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments TanzaniaTanzanian musicYange Yange Trio

Yange Yange Arts is a Wagogo cultural group from the central Tanzanian region around the city of Dodoma. Tanzania has some 12 ethnic groups none…

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Artist Profiles: Yulduz Usmanova

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments Uzbek musicUzbekistanYulduz Usmanova

Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was born on December 12, 1963 in Margilan, Uzbekistan. She was a unique phenomenon in the global pop culture of the…

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Artist Profiles: Yalla

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 1 Comment Uzbek musicUzbekistanYalla

Yalla is one of the leading popular music groups in the former Soviet central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. The band is from Tashkent the capital…

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Artist Profiles: Xuacu Amieva

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments bagpipeCeltic musicSpanish musicXuacu Amieva

Piper Xuacu Amieva was born October 12, 1954, in Llanes, Spain. He’s one of the acknowledged figures in the field of Asturian traditional music. His…

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Artist Profiles: Wolfstone

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments Celtic musicScotlandScottish musicWolfstone

Fiddler Duncan Chisholm and guitarist Stuart Eaglesham first met in the late 1980s at a pub session in Inverness, Scotland and formed a band for…

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Artist Profiles: William Jackson

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments harpScotlandScottish musicWilliam Jackson

William Jackson, of Glasgow has been at the forefront of Scottish traditional music for more than three decades. One of the leading harpers and multi-instrumentalists…

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Artist Profiles: Will Clipman

Angel Romero December 31, 2017 No Comments American Indian musicUnited States of AmericaWill Clipmanworld fusion

Will Clipman began playing his father’s drums and his mother’s piano at the age ofthree and since then has mastered a pan-global palette of percussion…

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