Not sure why, but I’ve recently been receiving a steady stream of music from the Fol label out of Spain. Some I initially put aside…
Sketches of Spain
Tag: world music
¡Globalquerque! 2016 Announces First Acts
World music festival ¡Globalquerque! Has announced the first set of acts scheduled to perform at the 2016 edition of the global music gathering. ¡Globalquerque! will…
Artist Profile: Abbi
Abbi is one of Kenya’s finest Afro-fusionist. With roots in Kenyan people’s traditional instruments and tunes, he fuses contemporary instruments from the world today, such…
The Cultural Richness of Diversity Showcased at Babel Med Music 2016 – Day 3
On Saturday night, most of the bands were French to please the general public. The crowd around was younger on average than in the previous…
The Cultural Richness of Diversity Showcased at Babel Med Music 2016 – Day 2
On Friday night, March 18, the public showed up early to BabelMed and rushed in at the opening of the gates, eager to have a…
The Cultural Richness of Diversity Showcased at Babel Med Music 2016 – Day 1
Three nights of music (17 March – 19 March 2016) at Babel Med Music, located in the Docks des Suds of Marseille with outdoor spring-like…
Artist Profiles: A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman, popularly known to music lovers as A. R. Rahman, is India’s greatest contemporary film composer. Known for incorporating western production styles to…
Artist Profiles: A Moving Sound
In the music of A Moving Sound (Shen Don) traditional Taiwanese, Chinese and neighboring Asian music forms are fused in new original song compositions. Instruments…
Transglobal World Music Chart for April 2016
The album Né So by Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traore repeats as number one album of the Transglobal World Music Chart in April 2016. April 2016…
Timeless Cross-cultural Qawwals
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch, 2015) Junun is a spectacular two-disc album that brings together Indian musical traditions,…