The album Journey Through Life (Partisan Records) by Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti claimed the number one position of the North American College and Community Charts…
View More Femi Kuti Ascends to the Top of NACC’s World Music Chart for the Week of May 27Tag: world fusion
Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia Rise to the Top of World Music Charts Europe for June 2025
The album The Devil Rides Again by Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia has reached the number one spot of World Music Charts Europe for June…
View More Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia Rise to the Top of World Music Charts Europe for June 2025Highlife in Motion: Santrofi’s “Making Moves” Charts a Bold New Journey
Santrofi – Making Moves (Outhere Records, 2025) Some albums arrive like old friends returning home, carrying new stories yet familiar scents of the past. Making…
View More Highlife in Motion: Santrofi’s “Making Moves” Charts a Bold New JourneyWind Songs and Sea Strings: Anemara Debuts with “Atlantic Schottis”
Anemara is a newly formed transatlantic quartet uniting traditional music influences from Scandinavia, the Celtic world, and North America. The ensemble features Kristina Leesik (fiddle,…
View More Wind Songs and Sea Strings: Anemara Debuts with “Atlantic Schottis”Nordic Lights in Persian Sky Bridges Traditions with Dazzling Dialog
Constantinople & Benedicte Maurseth – Nordic Lights in Persian Sky (Glossa, 2025) In Nordic Lights in Persian Sky, Montreal-based ensemble Constantinople joins forces with Norwegian…
View More Nordic Lights in Persian Sky Bridges Traditions with Dazzling DialogBlues on a Saint’s Wavelength: Fabrizio Piepoli Channels St. Nicholas in a Mediterranean Hymn
Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fabrizio Piepoli has released a new single, “Sanda Necole Blues”, produced by Zero Nove Nove with digital distribution via Believe. The…
View More Blues on a Saint’s Wavelength: Fabrizio Piepoli Channels St. Nicholas in a Mediterranean HymnBrass Meets Class: The Devil Rides Again Is No One-Hit Wünderkind
Adrian Raso featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia – The Devil Rides Again (Asphalt Tango Records, 2025) More than a decade after Devil’s Tale took the European World…
View More Brass Meets Class: The Devil Rides Again Is No One-Hit WünderkindTarabtella Visionary: Fabrizio Piepoli Mixes Tradition and Technology
Fabrizio Piepoli is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and educator from Apulia, Italy. He currently teaches traditional vocal techniques at the Conservatory of Lecce, where he…
View More Tarabtella Visionary: Fabrizio Piepoli Mixes Tradition and TechnologyFrom Trance to Transcendence: Gnaoua Festival Goes Global Again
The 26th Gnaoua and World Music Festival returns to Essaouira, Morocco, from June 19 to 21, 2025. Since its founding in 1998, the festival has…
View More From Trance to Transcendence: Gnaoua Festival Goes Global AgainMeybahar’s Debut: A Daring Fusion of Greek and Hungarian Traditions
Meybahar – Meybahar (Fonó, 2019) Meybahar‘s self-titled debut album bridges Greek and Hungarian musical traditions through the interplay of the santuri (Greek hammered dulcimer) and…
View More Meybahar’s Debut: A Daring Fusion of Greek and Hungarian Traditions
