New Bojaira – Zorongo Blu (New Bojaira, 2019) New Bojaira is a superb new ensemble featuring Spanish flamenco and flamenco-jazz musicians along with American jazz…
Genuine American Jazz Meets Deeply Rooted Flamenco
Tag: world fusion
Arabesques Festival Announces 2019 Lineup
French event Arabesques Festival will take place September 10 to 22, 2019. For this 14th edition, Arabesques will showcase many artists from the Arab world…
Echoes Of Japan by Minyo Crusaders Tops the Transglobal World Music Chart
“Echoes of Japan” by Japanese ensemble Minyo Crusaders is the number 1 album in the June edition of the Transglobal World Music Chart. Minyo Crusaders,…
Artist Profiles: Minyo Crusaders
In the late 1990s, guitarist Katsumi Tanaka moved to Fussa, a city in western Tokyo immersed in counter-culture folklore. Initially uninterested in min’yō, a catastrophic…
Beautifully-Sculpted Mongolian and Middle Eastern Fusion
Equus – Tailwind Home (Equus, 2019) Equus is a multi-ethnic ensemble from the Sydney melting pot in Australia. On Tailwind Home, Equus treats the listener…
Nightwalker Stephan Micus Dedicates White Night to the Moonlight
Stephan Micus – White Night (ECM Records, 2019) Composer, multi-instrumentalist, global traveler, and musical instrument collector Stephan Micus is an extraordinary musician who creates mesmerizing…
Dead Can Dance Envision the Rituals of Dionysus
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus (Pias America, 2019) Anyone who has dipped an ear into the musical wonderlands crafted by Dead Can Dance knows that…
Artist Profiles: Dany Noel
Dany Noel was born in Havana, Cuba. He began his performing career at only 8 years old singing and playing guitar. After taking up acoustic…
Amina by Refugees for Refugees Tops the Transglobal World Music Chart in May 2019
Amina, the second album by the Belgium-based world music collective Refugees for Refugees is the number one album in the May 2019 Transglobal World Music…
The Experimental Side of Sheila Chandra
Sheila Chandra – This Sentence is True (EMI/Narada, 2001) Sheila Chandra, the Anglo-Indian singer who released a number of synth-pop albums in the 1980s, is…