Frédéric Chopin – Etude, Op. 25, No. 1; Ballade, Op. 23, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2. Songs: Zyczenie (A...
When you need tranquility, but only up to a point it’s time to tune into Steinar Aadnekvam and his trio. The Bergen, Norway-born guitarist and his...
Elan, intelligence and passionate engagement: vocalists and guitarists Edu Passeto and Gui Tavares bring all this out in these exemplary performances on Noite que Brincou de...
Tangi Ropars is one of three Moskittos who you won’t be able to make go away, much less swat. He comes from hardy stock and he’s...
Juan Andrés Ospina enriches music in incalculable ways. First there is his attractive way with melody, which he enriches with the kind of flirtatious rhythm that...
The structural plan of this recording entitled Livre by Edu Leal and the group of musicians who accompany him on this quest is about experiencing life...
David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana’s 2018 release Conversation of the Birds invites the listener to journey back into fabled countryside, gliding mellifluously through a musical topography that transports...
The Turbans, a large England-based ensemble have, in their remarkable music and on this their eponymously entitled recording, created a vast network connecting jazz, klezmer, Moroccan,...
There are, after all, many ways to make an uplifting Jazz album, but one that manages to convey its deeply personal sources of inspiration, while at...
Benji Kaplan is an American, a New Yorker to be precise, but listening to his music you would never know that. He plays as if as...
Ever since the legendary Jazz trumpeter first coined the phrase “World Music” to describe the new idiom in which he was expressing his music in Sweden,...
Kiran Ahluwalia occupies a very special place in the vocal music of the Indian subcontinent. Her chameleonic versatility enables her to move seamlessly between classical, traditional...
That the seemingly oracular Brasilian lyricist and musician Mãe da Lua is in tune with the environment where in the world she may be is clear...
Pé de Moleque, Quebra Queixo, Algadao Doce, Pacoca, Sambossa – Celso Machado; Nachele Tempo – Benedito Lacerda, Pixinguinha & Fabio Oliveira; Choro Negro – Paulinho da...
There was a time in the history of civilisations when global travel was tediously slow, treacherous and conducted only via overland and maritime routes. Ironically this...
The music called choro has variously been compared with ragtime and other styles that grew out of early New Orleans and with danzón from Cuba. But...
The rather irreverent Swedish contemporary ensemble, teaming up with the Sufi singer, Shamim Naghedi are propelled from their romp around 1960s and 1970s Sweden into a...
In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations, undulations and...
With the plethora of discs with wonderful music glorifying the tango, it is often tempting to think that the music of Argentina is just the tango...
Seven works by Mark Applebaum: Eight analog synthesizers, Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players – Eduard Leandro, cond; Takao Hyakutome, vn; Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble –...
