Tag Archives: world music

Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio’s Intizar: Songs of Longing

Posted on 22nd September 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

As soon as I started listening to “Intizar,” the first and title track on this beautiful album by the Rembrandt Trio and the Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi, I thought I was hearing a santur, the Iranian hammer dulcimer. Then … Continue reading →

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Shebeen’s The Pebbled Shore

Posted on 22nd August 2023 by Diverse Voices

Pat Simmonds wrote this review. Shebeen is based around the piping of Robbie Byrne who, according to his Web site, is an ex-Scots Guard Highland Piper and folk musician. The CD arrived with an accompanying note but no cover and … Continue reading →

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Sharon Shannon’s Out the Gap, and Spellbound: the Best of Sharon Shannon

Posted on 22nd August 2023 by Kim Bates

Ever wonder where the other Waterboys got to after Mike Scott left for New York? Did you suspect that the wonderful arrangements on their Fisherman’s Blues and Room to Roam owed a lot to the contributions of ensemble members – … Continue reading →

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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi’s The Wolf and the Lamb

Posted on 4th August 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

Klezmer music has a long and fascinating history, and it’s continuing to add to that history as a living art form. The violinist, composer and ethnographer Yale Strom has been one of its leading proponents, with his band Hot Pstromi, … Continue reading →

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Skatalites’ From Paris With Love

Posted on 27th July 2023 by Diverse Voices

Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. As soon as the snow melts around these parts, out come the ska discs in my house. Actually, most of the year there’s some ska lurking in the background, but Spring puts me in … Continue reading →

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Magalí Sare & Manel Fortià’s ReTornar

Posted on 22nd July 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

Two Catalonian jazz/folk musicians take us on a tour of the Iberian peninsula, with an excursion or two into Latin America, in their boundary-ignoring second album together ReTornar. Magalí Sare has an immensely supple and emotive vocal instrument, and she … Continue reading →

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Flying Tomatoes’ Rags to Racenicas, Atomic City Rhythm Rascals’ Atomic City Rhythm Rascals, Birol Topaloglu’s Aravani, Mukka’s Skip Lizard, Pinewoods Band’s South by Southeast, and Stömp’s Machine Without Horses

Posted on 18th July 2023 by Jack Merry

One cannot live by English and Celtic music alone, so there needs to be music outside those traditions that’s interesting too. For me, that music is that of the Central European region. And what I like best is the dance … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Asian Underground | Beats, Breaks and Tablas: Cultures Collide

Posted on 18th July 2023 by Diverse Voices

Inigo Jones wrote this review. Featuring some of the best-known names in the Asian Underground – Ananda Shankar, Joi, Asian Dub Foundation – and a number of lesser known acts, Rough Guide’s latest compilation dares to compete with what must … Continue reading →

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Sheila Chandra’s Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices, The Zen Kiss, and ABoneCroneDrone

Posted on 28th June 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

Sheila Chandra is the best and most accomplished singer I’d never heard of. Fortunately, that has been remedied as Real World Records reissues the landmark trilogy of solo vocal albums from the 1990s by this U.K. singer of Indian descent. … Continue reading →

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Elina Duni’s A Time To Remember

Posted on 21st June 2023 by Gary Whitehouse

A new Elina Duni album is always cause for joy, and A Time To Remember is no exception. This time out she follows up her 2020 quartet recording Lost Ships with a varied program of 12 songs ranging from American … Continue reading →

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