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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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    Cory Henry Releases Soulful and Funk-Fueled ‘A Wonderful Holiday’

    Cory Henry — A Wonderful Holiday (2025) Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter Cory Henry has released A Wonderful Holiday, a six-song collection of original Christmas…

    Angel Romero December 18, 2025 No Comments
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    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…

    Madison Quinn December 17, 2025 No Comments
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    Roger Glenn Returns With My Latin Heart with Vibes, Flute, And Fire

    Roger Glenn – My Latin Heart (Patois Records, 2025) Veteran multi-instrumentalist and composer Roger Glenn released My Latin Heart in 2025, his first new album…

    Iliana Cabrera December 15, 2025 No Comments
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    Salt House Gently Glow On Scarrow, Their New Folk Beacon

    Salt House – Scarrow (Hudson Records, 2025) The outstanding English folk trio Salt House return in 2025 with Scarrow, their fifth studio album for Hudson…

    Angel Romero December 14, 2025 No Comments
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  • 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.
    Music videos

    Robert Plant Drops New Everybody’s Song Video With Saving Grace

    World Music Central News Room December 18, 2025 No Comments
  • A black field frames gold typography, with the artist name centered above and the album title below. A single luminous gold line ripples across the middle, glowing softly at its center.
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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
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    Music videos Single reviews

    Effervescent Reggae

    Tom Orr December 16, 2025 No Comments
  • A dark screen with scan lines and digital noise. Glowing blue-yellow text reads “Gregory Isaacs” at the top and “Love Without Intermission” in italicized lettering at center, with playback symbols and a zeroed timecode.
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    Cool Ruler Meets Keyboard King On ‘Love Without Intermission’

    World Music Central News Room December 15, 2025 No Comments
  • Owen Casey Easy Enough single artwork. A Compact Disc with images of two palms and song credits.
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    Jamaica Meets Irie-Land

    Tom Orr December 13, 2025 No Comments

Album reviews

Global Friendly Daby Toure

TJ Nelson July 27, 2015 No Comments

Daby Toure Amonafi (Cumbancha, 2015) Set for release on September 18th on the Cumbancha label, Amonafi is Mauritanian born and Senegal raised Daby Toure’s sweet,…

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New CDs

Balkan Band Poemus Releases Progenitor Vol. 1

World Music Central News Room July 27, 2015 No Comments

Poemus has a new album titled Progenitor Vol. 1, In the Name of our Ancestors (EMCD/ Etnisk Musikklubb). Poemus was formed about two years ago,…

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Events

Lotus World Music Festival Announces 2015 Lineup

World Music Central News Room July 26, 2015 No Comments

  Lotus World Music & Arts Festival has revealed the list of artists that are scheduled to perform at this year’s edition of the festival.…

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Events

Sum – 숨 to Perform at Small World Music Festival 2015

Angel Romero July 26, 2015 No Comments

Korean duo Sum – 숨[SUːM] is set to perform on Tuesday, September 29th at Small World Music Centre in Toronto. [su:m] mix traditional Korean instrumentation…

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Jitka Šuranská, Irén Lovász and Michal Elia Kamal Release Tři hlasy

World Music Central News Room July 25, 2015 No Comments

  Female vocalists Jitka Šuranská, Irén Lovasz and Michal Elia Kamal have a new album titled Tři hlasy. The three singers got together thanks to…

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Music videos

Julian Marley Releases “Lemme Go” Music Video Celebrating Marijuana Decriminalization in Jamaica

World Music Central News Room July 24, 2015 No Comments

Bob Marley’s son and roots reggae artist Julian Marley has released a new music video titled “Lemme Go” to celebrate the recently passed law to…

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General News

Bellowhead to Perform Last Festival Gig at Towersey

World Music Central News Room July 24, 2015 No Comments

Celebrated British contemporary folk music group Bellowhead will be disbanding soon. Bellowhead co-founder John Spiers has announced that the band’s last festival performance will be…

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Events

World Music Institute announces the 2015-16 season

World Music Central News Room July 23, 2015 No Comments

New York City-based arts presenter World Music Institute (WMI) has announced the programming for the 2015-2016 season. WMI will celebrate its 30th Anniversary season with…

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Events

Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba to Perform Free Concert at Skirball Cultural Center’s 2015 Sunset Concerts

World Music Central News Room July 23, 2015 No Comments Bassekou KouyateMaliMalian musicngoni

  Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba are set to perform on Thursday, July 30, 8:00 p.m. at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Admission is…

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Obituaries

Cuban Rumba Master Papo Angarica Dies in Havana

World Music Central News Room July 22, 2015 No Comments

Papo Angarica, an icon of Cuban rumba passed away July 20th in Havana of respiratory failure caused by chronic renal failure. Mario Diaz Angarica was…

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