The spellbinding disc Parceria celebrates an enduring partnership between drummer Paulo Almeida and bassist Bruno Migotto together with pianist Salomão Soares and reeds and winds player...
For Ludwig van Beethoven, there was but one way to create art, “Don’t only practice your art,” he said, “But force your way into its secrets...
Apropos of Ol’Jansa by Göran Månsson & Friends, it’s worth recalling that Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) once began his quest thus: “Would it be...
Pandit Taranath has been mainstays of Indian classical (Hindustani) music for well over half a century and have made significant contributions to the art. Had he...
If you are an ethnomusicologist on a quest to study a particular style of music you deep-dive. But every deep-dive demands that you must stay down...
Although the booklet note at times might come close to suggesting that Song of Silver Geese by Jen Shyu is a simple tale of life and...
Even a cursory look at the GHA Records catalogue will reveal that the label is a treasure trove of contemporary guitar music – largely from Brasil,...
Anyone who doubts that all modern music in the Americas came from the erstwhile “Americanised” African slaves who wrenched from their home country and all its...
Don Cherry was, arguably, the first musician to use the term “world-music” to describe the music he was playing in the 1960’s. By that time Mr....
Betsayda Machado is one of a kind. A parrandera queen and notional leader here of Parranda el Clavo on the album Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under...
Part of the reason why this music is so compelling is certainly due to the splendid accord with which this ensemble reads these arrangements, all of...
It is important to acknowledge the genius of Tcha Limberger in the context of his being a musical – perhaps, an all-around – polymath and here...
Stanley Grill: American Landscapes; Lonely Pieces; At the Center of All Things; Diderot String Quartet – Adriane Post: vn; Johanna Novom: vn; Kyle Miller: va; Paul...
Frédéric Chopin: Disc One: Nocturnes 1 to 11 (Op 9 No 1 – 3, Op 15 No 1 – 3, Op 27 No 1 and 2,...
This viscerally exciting recording with the young Brasilian drummer, Igor Willcox at the helm of affairs bodes well for the new generation of musicians emerging from...
To the extent that the feast of Christmas is universally celebrated it would make eminent sense to create a soundtrack for the season – and the...
There can be no doubt that Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of the most important cultural figures in Brasil, an icon even among other Brasilian national...
This recording by the Anat Cohen Tentet shows the clarinetist and her ensemble traversing the widest musical topography she has in a very long time, visiting...
It is one of those true travesties that an artist such as David Broza should still inhabit the fringes of music. While it’s also true that...
As long as musicians such as Keith Jarrett play and record Johann Sebastian Bach’s most frequently performed keyboard (harpsichord) works on the harpsichord there will probably...
