World Music and Dance [WOMAD], the UK’s top global music+dance festival is back this year at Charlton Park from July 28th to 31st. Audiences can expect...
In an ideal world we would have no cause to refer to Solomiya Ivakhiv as a “Ukrainian” violinist and pedagogue, which she is. But she is...
There appear to be no hard borders that separate styles, dialects and – it now seems even unique national traditions and cultural topographies – in music...
The lack of recognition for the work of Grazyna Bacewicz [1909-1969] – even among music’s cognoscenti – is something of mystery. The Polish violinist and composer,...
This recording – Mapou, featuring the Haitian-Swedish-Swedish-Haitian brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra of Sten Källman and Sanba Zao – is one of the most electrifying recordings...
“Nationalism” has a rather bad connotation today, thanks to the rise of the far-right. In music, though – especially in classical music in the 18th and...
The young violinist Kinga Augustyn has outdone herself with the release of her second album of 2021, Turning in Time, probably reaching the apogee of performance...
A preview of Simon Thacker’s World Premiere of Pashyanti on Guitar features special guest dancer Aishwarya Raut. I cannot think of a guitarist of our time...
David Broza’s declaration that the internationalism of humanity lies in music – no matter the extent of numerous Diasporas across the universe – has never been...
The nature of exile [παρεπιδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
Ajoyo released their EP War Chant in the Fall of 2019 and have since followed that four-song release with a full album in the Summer of...
All music – indeed all art itself – is a conceit in which the artist perpetrates one or another act of beautiful or decorous vanity upon...
You cannot call your recording La Próxima Traición and expect to get away with emphasis on the elegance of the tango alone. Ben and Winnie certainly...
For someone who plays the cello with such maturity and profound beauty, it’s odd to think that Hee-Young Lim might have once chosen not to be...
The origin of the word “mariachi” was once hotly discussed – even disputed. Semantics and etymology apart, no one has been able to quite resist the...
In 2017 Stanley Grill wrote music that elevated the terrestrial to the celestial with At the Center of All Things. That music swept across Whitman’s America...
There’s a good chance you might not have heard of the guitarist, vocalist and composer of these songs – Soli. Having a one-word name that also...
If you are new not just to the kind of Carnatic (South Indian) music on the Aditya Prakash Ensemble’s Diaspora Kid, but to Indian music in...
Think about Brasilian music played by Brasilians – even before a single note is played – and the chances are you’ll expect something magical in the...
Music has an ephemeral quality that makes it experientially real only in the present. For instance, once music has passed it becomes a cherished memory that...
