Tag Archives: world music

Club d’Elf’s You Never Know

Posted on 21st March 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

So I guess now I’m a fan of dub? Or at least of some of its hybrids in world music, like the Turkish psychedelic dub of Baba Zula, the American Southwestern dub experiments of Calexico, and now this world-dub-jazz hybrid … Continue reading →

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Almalé’s Hixa Mía

Posted on 11th March 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Pilar Almalé is a multi-faceted artist from Spain whose main focus is on early music, for which she plays the Renaissance instrument viola da gamba, a cello-sized instrument that has more strings and is played between the knees. But she … Continue reading →

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Lorenzo DeStefano’s Los Zafiros: Music From the Edge of Time

Posted on 26th February 2022 by David Kidney

There has been a re-awakening of interest in the music of Cuba. Even with its turbulent history, the island, which sits just 90 miles off the tip of Florida, was almost forgotten as the United States sought to ignore it. … Continue reading →

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An omnibus review of music guides, Rough and otherwise, to folk, world, and opera

Posted on 14th February 2022 by Jack Merry

Neal Walters and Brian Mansfield’s musicHound Folk Adam McGovern, editor’s musicHound World Simon Broughton’s The Rough Guide to World Music, Volume One Simon Broughton’s The Rough Guide to World Music, Volume Two John Guinn and Les Stone’s The St. James … Continue reading →

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Gail Holst-Warhaft’s Road To Rembetika

Posted on 13th February 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Judith Gennett wrote this review. Sometime during the late nineties our radio station in Texas received an archival rembetika CD from Rounder Records. It all sounded Greek to me, but then I began to read the lyrics. Pick-pockets, jail, knife … Continue reading →

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An omnibus review of traditional Georgian and Russian Cossack music

Posted on 26th January 2022 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. The former Soviet Union is one of the least explored areas in terms of traditional music, encompassing hundreds, if not thousands, of regional music genres. We have only begun to scratch the surface of … Continue reading →

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Duo Temuzhin’s Altai-Khangain-Ayalguu; Ensemble Ardiin Ayalguu’s Solongo; Ensemble Temuzhin, Altai-Khangain-Ayalguu 2

Posted on 26th January 2022 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. This is sort of a full circle review for yours truly. My first review (my “audition,” if you will) for Green Man was Tsagaan Sar’s White Moon, a disc of music from Mongolia. And … Continue reading →

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An omnibus review of Central Asian traditional music

Posted on 25th January 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Many parts of Asia have only recently been opened to the West. Many of these lands have for much of the past several centuries been under the sway of huge empires – the Ottomans, Tsarist Russia, the Mongols, ancient and … Continue reading →

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Tsagaan Sar’s White Moon (Traditional and Popular Music from Mongolia)

Posted on 25th January 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Often the term “world music” has been corrupted to encompass a small and narrow band of culturally “acceptable” music. A typical fan of this genre will have a fair-sized collection of Afro-pop, Latino popular … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Ten Years of Face Music

Posted on 22nd January 2022 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Face Music is a Swiss record label, specializing in World and World fusion styles. This compilation comes after the release of their 22nd album, no mean feat for an independent label with such an … Continue reading →

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