Artist Profiles: Burhan Öçal
Turkish music specialist Burhan Öçal has made the bridging of musical cultures his central mission. A native of Kirklareli, near Istanbul, he grew up in…
Afro-Folk Artist Naomi Wachira Releases Song of Lament
Kenyan Afro-Folk singer-songwriter Naomi Wachira has a new album titled Song of Lament that addresses injustice and the refugee crisis. Although news stories made her…
La Mar de Músicas 2017 to Celebrate the Sounds of Latin America
La Mar de Músicas, the significant world music and rock festival in Cartagena (southeastern Spain), will celebrate the traditional, cutting-edge and mestizo sounds of Latin…
Strange Fruit Expressions
Fabrizio Cassol – Strange Fruit (Outhere Music/Instinct Collection, 2017) Strange Fruit is a cross-genre project developed by Belgian saxophonist and composer Fabrizio Cassol, who has…
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…