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: Bora Yasar
Bora Yasar was born in 1973 in Gaziantep, Turkey. He studied Alevi music and played saz for a semah group. He studied and applied classical…
Artist Profiles: Branco Stoysin
Born in a university town, Novi Sad, in the former Yugoslavia (and now part of Serbia), and entirely self-taught, Branco began playing guitar at the…
Artist Profiles: Bryan Sutton
Born near Asheville, North Carolina in 1973, Bryan Sutton started playing the guitar at the age of 8. Sutton first came to prominence as part…
Artist Profiles: Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat Zydeco’s powerful live shows were legendary for the fun and abandon they inspired. It was the first Zydeco band to land a major record…
Forró in the Dark Discusses New Album Sandcastle
New York city-based band Forró in the Dark has a new album titled, Sandcastle (Nacional Records), its first release in 8 years. The band…
Artist Profiles: C. J. Chenier
Zydeco star C. J. Chenier was born on September 28, 1957 in Port Arthur, Texas, right next to the Louisiana state line. He has been…
Artist Profiles: Burach
Burach was one of the most innovative and popular bands to come out of the new wave of Scottish musical inventiveness combining Celtic music and…
Artist Profiles: Boot
Boot was a Swedish band eaturing is Björn Tollin and Hållbus Totte Mattsson from Hedningarna plus Ola Bäckström from Swåp and Den Fule along with…
Artist Profiles: Bodega
Bodega were Gillian Chalmers (Fraserburgh – pipes, whistle and fiddle); Ross Couper (Shetland – fiddle); Tia Files (Oban – guitar, bass guitar and percussion); Norrie…
Artist Profiles: Bobby Rush
Born Emmit Ellis, Jr., Bobby Rush was born in Homer, Louisiana. Rush gained renown in Chicago starting in the 1950s and 60s where he performed…