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).…
SANS’ Entrancing Chamber World Music
SANS – Live (Cloud Valley CV2014, 2014) SANS is an ensemble that combines contemporary folk music, jazz and chamber music elements. The group is led…
Bae Ho Jazz Recreations
Baeshi Bang 배씨방 – Vintage K-Pop Revisited (Buda Musique, 2016) Baeshi Bang is a French jazz quintet fascinated by Korean 1960s star Baeshi Ho. Baeshi…
Calypso Rose Releases Far From Home Music Video
Caribbean star Calypso Rose has released a new music video featuring the song “Far From Home.” This ska song appears in Calypso Rose’s recent album…
The Seal of Solomon
Shlomit Levi and RebbeSoul – The Seal of Solomon (2015) The Seal of Solomon is an album that combines classic rock with Middle Eastern music.…
West Philly Orchestra’s Balkan Party
West Philly Orchestra (WPO) – Tour De Filli (Fly Bottle Records, 2016) On Tour De Filli, the West Philly Orchestra Album plays fun, infectious Balkan…
Renaissance of the Vargan
Vladimir Markov – Out of time. Russian jew’s harp music (Sketis Music, SKMR-126, 2017) The jew’s harp had disappeared in Russia until Vladimir Markov (Владимир…
Artist Profiles: Maggie MacInnes
Maggie MacInnes sings and plays the clarsach. She was born in Glasgow and now lives in Ayrshire. She comes from a long line of Gaelic…
Artist Profiles: Luis Di Matteo
Luis Di Matteo is one of the great bandoneonistas from South America. Living in Montevideo, Uruguay, Di Matteo has carried bandoneon music the furthest in…
Artist Profiles: Louis Mhlanga
Louis Mhlanga was born November 10, 1956 in Harare. He is a South Africa-based Zimbabwean award-winning guitarist and producer. Mhlanga taught himself playing the guitar…
Son Jarocho Masters Los Cenzontles
Cenzontle is the Aztec word for mockingbird, the bird of a hundred voices. Like the cenzontle, Los Cenzontles interpret a variety of regional Mexican styles.…