Lô And Behold: Maame, a DYI Effort
Cheikh Lô – Maame (World Circuit, 2025) A decade has passed since Cheikh Lô last offered a studio album, and Maame feels like a homecoming…
World Music Festival in Harlem This Saturday
Nine world music and dance acts are set to perform at The Gathering on December 5, 2015 at the 21st Century Community Leadership Academy…
Snarky Puppy to Release New Album Family Dinner – Volume Two Featuring Susana Baca and Salif Keita
Snarky Puppy the rising stars of jazz-rock, are set to release the band’s ninth album, Family Dinner – Volume Two, out February 12, 2016…
World Music Central’s 2015 Gift Guide, Day 3
Check out our Day 1 gift guide and Day 2 gift guide.
Senegalese Star Baba Maal Releases Single from Upcoming album The Traveller
Celebrated Senegalese musician and United Nations Ambassador Baaba Maal has released a track that will appear in his much anticipated 11th album The Traveller…
World Music Central’s 2015 Gift Guide, Day 2
Madrid to Host ‘Flamenco Monumental’ in December 2015
The spectacular concerts titled ‘Flamenco Monumental’ will be held on December 12 and 13, 2015, at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid. ‘Flamenco Monumental’ are…
Piano and Bass Flamenco Sorcery
Dorantes and Renaud Garcia-Fons Paseo a dos (emotive EMO151, 2015) Two masters of European music got together to transform flamenco music into new acoustic music…
World Music Central’s 2015 Gift Guide
World Music Central is going to do our annual Christmas gift guide a little differently this year. To avoid the stress and save time,…
Transglobal World Music Chart for December 2015
The results are in. This is the Transglobal World Music Chart for December 2015. Brazilian band Bixiga 70 tops the chart this month. Bixiga…
Senegalese Treasure Trove
Various Artists Senegal 70: Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70’s (Analog Africa AACD 079, 2015) Analagog Africa has been releasing some of…