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Tag Archives: world music
Nohon’s Altai Maktal
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. As I write this, the first snow of fall is drifting down. The chill of the coming six months is in the winds, and every face I see wears a frown, dreading what winter … Continue reading
The Klezmer Conservatory Band’s Dance Me To The End of Love
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. If one would consider the KlezRoym New School, then the Klezmer Conservatory Band is thoroughly Old School in their approach to the music. All of the usual forms of klezmer are here: the frenetic freylekhs, … Continue reading
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Various artists’ The Rough Guide To The Music Of Russia
Over the last decade or so the idea of music compilations has taken on a new face – thank goodness!! Compilations have become an art form and, fortunately for the music lover, a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The series of Rough … Continue reading
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A Latvian music UPE Records omnibus review
Various artists’ A Touch of Latvian Folk Music Skandinieki’s Skandinieki Valdis Muktupavels’s Valdis Muktupavels Marija Golubova’s Stasti Un Dziesmas Latvia is a small country located on the east side of the Baltic Sea, with Estonia to the north, Lithuania to … Continue reading
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Garth Cartwright’s Princes Amongst Men
Gypsies and music go together. Not just in popular imagination, but in fact. From the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt to the wailing trumpets of the brass orkestar, from Andalusia’s Flamenco guitarists to the profound and joyful singing of Esma … Continue reading
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Vigüela’s A la manera artesana
The Spanish folk quintet Vigüela call their new album A la manera artesana or “In the artisan way.” In the album’s liner notes by the great folk music champion Simon Broughton, he explains it this way: “The title of their … Continue reading
Imarhan’s Aboogi
One of my favorite songs of 2016 was “World Goes Away” from the Tucson Arizona-based group Xixa’s album Bloodline. As I said in my review of that album: XIXA’s dual frontmen, Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan, seem to have internalized … Continue reading
Gary’s favorite jazz and world music of 2021
This year my listening in jazz and international music leaned even further into modern jazz and Nordic noir. The album I listened to the most was actually from 2019: I was late in discovering Bedehus & Hawaii by Norwegian guitarist … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Folk Music of China, Vol. 20 – Folk Songs of the Hui, Manchu, Xibe, Korean and Gin Peoples
This is the 20th and final album in Naxos World’s sprawling compendium of the folk music of China. In some ways it seems a bit like a grab bag, dealing as it does with five different ethnic groups that live … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Folk Music of China, Vol. 19 – Folk Songs of the Lahu, Jingpo, Jino and Achang Peoples
This is the penultimate release in this superb series documenting the diversity of folk songs of China. It has the more variety than many of the albums in the series, both in the number of ethnic groups whose music it … Continue reading
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