Vocalist Najma Akhtar, better known as Najma, was born in 1964 Chelmsford, England. Najma has Indian ancestry and holds a degree in chemical engineering. Najma’s…
Artist Profiles: Najma
Tag: world fusion
Baraka Moon’s Magic Carpet Ride across the Globe
Baraka Moon – Wind Horse (Baraka Moon Music, 2017) Following up on their 2016 release of Eternal, the San Francisco based Baraka Moon is back…
Impeccable and Spellbinding Performances by Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Love Is My Religion (Alif Records, 2017) Love Is My Religion out on the Alif Records label, the latest offering by…
Bokanté’s Stimulating Global Exchange
Bokanté – Strange Circles (Ground Up Music, 2017) Strange Circles is the superb debut album of Bokanté, a new supergroup that features a multinational and…
Artist Profiles: Mawwal
Mawwal is a collective based in the northeastern United States. The musician behind the project is composer and instrumentalist Jim Matus who plays various types…
Bravado Masala
James Asher and Mahesh Vinayakram – Bravado Masala (Times Music, 2008) This album sounds promising and exciting on the cover, which certainly has an element…
Ask Your Heart: Mehmet Polat Trio
Ask Your Heart is the second album by the Mehmet Polat Trio (released in 2017 on homerecords.be). Its music transports the listener from a world…
Hurdy Gurdy Wizardry
Rao Trio – Sin Titulo (Producciones Efímeras, 2004) Although the zanfona (Spanish hurdy gurdy) is best known as an instrument used in Spanish regional folk…
Artist Profiles: Kaz Kasozi
Born in Uganda Kaz Kasozi is an artist who has horned his craft working with musicians and bands playing different genres of music from around…
Artist Profiles: Jamshied Sharifi
(headline image: Jamshied Sharifi in Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain) – Photo by Angel Romero) Jamshied Sharifi was born October 17, 1960, in Topeka, Kansas, to…