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    Strings In Flight As Cuerdas Trio Debuts Gentile

    Cuerdas Trio – Gentile (Visage Music, 2025) Cuerdas Trio introduces Gentile, a 2025 release that reflects the group’s cross-cultural identity and its commitment to dialogue…

    Madison Quinn December 24, 2025 No Comments
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    Dawn Beats Darkness: Murmurosi Reimagines Ukrainian Folk On Svitanok

    Murmurosi – Svitanok (Ukrainian Folk Reinvented) (Self-released, 2025) Murmurosi released the passionate Svitanok (Ukrainian Folk Reinvented) independently. The title means “dawn” in Ukrainian and draws…

    JGurski December 22, 2025 No Comments
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    Raia’s Uádi Pours Desert Rains Over The Viola Campaniça

    Raia – Uádi (Lusitanian LUS058, 2025) Portuguese musician António “Tó-Zé” Bexiga recently released Uádi, the new album from his solo project Raia. The record highlights…

    Iliana Cabrera December 21, 2025 No Comments
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    From Hallingdal To Homs: Spove’s Folk Flight

    Spove, Nawara Alnaddaf, Silje Risdal Liahagen, Inger Hannisdal, Adrian Myhr – Spove (Fiol, 2025) Norwegian-Syrian quartet Spove has released its debut album, Spove. The exquisite…

    Tyler Bennet December 20, 2025 No Comments
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    Zemog El Gallo Bueno Playful Return With New Album ¡Ya Tú Sabes!

    Zemog El Gallo Bueno – ¡Ya Tú Sabes! U All Reddy Noe (Pinch Records, 2025) ¡Ya Tú Sabes! (You Already Know) is the latest album…

    Angel Romero December 19, 2025 No Comments
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    Yule Log Polka: Karen Marshalsay’s Festive Harp Tune

    World Music Central News Room December 24, 2025 No Comments
  • Kathleen MacInnes -Santa Take Me Home cover artwork. A photo of a little girl by a Christmas tree.
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    Kathleen MacInnes Wants A Lift North On New Christmas Single “Santa Take Me Home”

    World Music Central News Room December 23, 2025 No Comments
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    Got It Together

    Tom Orr December 22, 2025 No Comments
  • An illustrated landscape shows a lush forest opening to a stream and waterfall, framed by geometric Art Deco borders. A glowing sun sets behind distant mountains, while a lone figure beside a turntable listens by the water. Pastel typography centers the title “Love Garden” with “Double Tiger” beneath.
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    Love In Bloom – Double Tiger Grows New “Love Garden” Single

    World Music Central News Room December 19, 2025 No Comments
  • A lone bison strides across an open road at dusk, its dark silhouette set against a wide, amber-toned sky and distant plains. The title Saving Grace and the artist’s name appear above.
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    Robert Plant Drops New Everybody’s Song Video With Saving Grace

    World Music Central News Room December 18, 2025 No Comments
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    Persian Setar, Ambient Drama: Danial HM Teases New Single “Breath Of Eternity”

    World Music Central News Room December 17, 2025 No Comments

Album reviews

Bulgarian Clarinet Legend

Angel Romero September 13, 2016 No Comments BulgariaBulgarian musicclarinetGeorgi Koev

Georgi Koev – Georgi Koev (1910-1983) Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet (BMA Productions BMA-1009 – Bulgarian Folk Archives collection, 2015) As the title indicates, Bulgarian…

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Events

Bella Ciao to Showcase at WOMEX 2016 in Spain

Angel Romero September 13, 2016 No Comments Alessio LegaAndrea SalvadoriBella CiaoElena LeddaGigi BiolcatiGinevra di MarcoItalian musicItalyLucilla GaleazziRiccardo Tesi

Italian act Bella Ciao is set to perform on October 21, 2016 at WOMEX in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The project revisits an influential 1964…

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Boreal International Festival Reveals 2016 Program

Angel Romero September 12, 2016 No Comments Canary IslandsFestival Internacional BorealSpainTenerifeworld music

The Festival Internacional Boreal (Boreal International Festival) 2016 will take place September 14-17 in Los Silos (Tenerife, Canary Islands). The motto of this Spanish environmentally-conscious…

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New Releases

Length & Time: AZ

Adolf Alzuphar September 12, 2016 No Comments Asaphe Micaelle Jean LouisAZHaitiHaitian music

I will be writing a column on Length & Time in music, in each presenting an album and its strategies that pertain to addressing Length & Time.  She’s…

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Album reviews

Renovated Dance Music from Paris

Angel Romero September 12, 2016 No Comments Denécheau Jâse MusetteFranceFrench musicmusette

Denécheau Jâse Musette – Amour Java (Buda Musique, 2016) This French revivalist ensemble plays a typically Parisian musical genre called musette. Denécheau Jâse demonstrate the…

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Album reviews

Heartfelt Mornas of Cape Verde

Angel Romero September 11, 2016 No Comments AlbertinoAlma De MornaBauCape VerdeCape Verdean musicCesaria EvoraCeuzanyElida AlmeidaFantchaIldo LoboJenifer SolidadeKompassLuraMaria AlicemornaNancy VieiraTeofilo ChantreZe Luis

Various Artists – Mornas De Cabo Verde (Lusafrica, 2016) Lusafrica has released a compilation that features some of the finest morna performers, ranging from the…

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Album reviews

Absorbing Finnish a Cappella

Angel Romero September 10, 2016 No Comments a cappellaFinlandTuuletar

Tuuletar – Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal (Bafe’s Factory, 2016) An exquisite a cappella album by Finnish quartet Tuuletar. The all-female ensemble sings original compositions inspired…

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Interviews

Yoham Ortiz’s Conversation

Dorothy Johnson-Laird September 9, 2016 No Comments Yoham Ortiz

Yoham Ortiz’s voice gently weaves in and out of his acoustic guitar notes. His vocal is warm, expressive and works well with his intricate guitar…

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Interviews

Interview with World Music Ensemble Stellamara

Angel Romero September 9, 2016 No Comments Gari HegedusSonja DrakulicStellamaraworld music

American world music ensemble Stellamara will be performing at the symbiosisgathering.com. The electronic music festival includes world music and will take place September 22-25 at…

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General News

WOMEX 2017 to Be Held in Poland

Angel Romero September 8, 2016 No Comments 2017KatowicePolandSilesiawomexworld music

WOMEX organizers announced today that the World Music Expo will be held in Katowice, in the region of Silesia, in southern Poland. The annual conference…

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