Using Puppets to Bring the Culture of Flamenco to Children
Títere Tran Tran is a puppet project from Granada (Spain) that aims to bring the world of flamenco to a younger audience. It’s a family…
Master Drummers of Dagbon, V. 1 Reissued for Digital Distribution
Rounder Records has reissued the album Master Drummers of Dagbon, V. 1 by Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulai & the Master Drummers of Dagbon. The reissue is…
Artist Profiles: Adikanfo
Adikanfo is a traditional music and dance style from Ghana. The cultural group Adikanfo from Ghana has taken upon itself to preserve a choice selection…
Artist Profiles: Adel Shams Eddine
Adel Shams Eddine (also spelled Adel Shams El Din) was born in Cairo in 1950, but is currently living in France. He has been one…
Artist Profiles: Adel Salameh
Palestinian ‘ud player and composer, Adel Salameh was born in Nablus, Palestine, in 1966. He started performing as a soloist while still living in the…
Hathor: Ancient Egypt’s Goddess of Music
Understanding Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess of music, is understanding how one of human kinds most fascinating civilization’s thought of music’s relationship to life. Understanding…
Drawing the African Line
Call me a traditionalist, call me a purist, call me a snob, call me a journalistic hack. (Okay, that last one is kind of beside…
Artist Profiles: Addys D’Mercedes
Cuban singer Addys D’Mercedes grew up in Oriente, the southern, rural part of Cuba. At local parties she heard her father playing sones and guajiras…
Dazzling French Nordestino Amalgam
Zé Boiadé – Zé qué casá (La Roda/Rue Stendhal, 2016) Zé Boiadé is a Franco-Brazilian band based in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. The quartet includes…
Artist Profiles: Adassa
Singer-songwriter Adassa combines dancehall, reggaeton, and r&b, and hip hop captivating the public’s ear with unabashed and up front lyrics as well as fiery club…