In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations, undulations and...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The poem, All Rivers at Once written by Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, is the inspiration for the performance of the Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative at Toronto’s...
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...
Two years ago I saw Barbara Hannigan perform György Ligeti’s Mystères du Macabre dressed in a schoolgirl’s kilt, chewing bubblegum. The orchestra was Sinfónica de Londres,...
North American listeners have been introduced to the music of the British-born multi-instrumentalist, writer and vocalist, Joanna Wallfisch. She has regaled her audiences from New York...
On the 27th of October, 2017 Canadian lovers of music were again given the opportunity to sit and listen to the legendary Chilean nueva canción ensemble,...
Putumayo World Music is a New York-based label that has few peers anywhere in the world of music. It single-handedly introduces listeners to music from every...
The Puerto Rico-born Cecilia Pahl, who moved to Posadas, Misiones in Argentina, via Cordoba, Spain is now not only a seasoned traveller, but a vocalist, who...
Memories are apparently rampant especially in Montréal, Quebec. After all every licence plate on a motorcar contains a registration number and the words “Québec… Je me...
I rarely conduct interviews using email and don’t really like doing them over the telephone either. In my view, the talking and listening – more listening...
“Aimez-moi comme un beau rêve, votre vie la nuit, mon espoir le jour, comme une pièce d’argent sur terre ne m’en sépare, et pour le grand...
The New Canadian Global Music Orchestra, recently created by The Royal Conservatory of Toronto and masterminded by its Executive Director, Performing Art, Mervon Mehta, premiered the...
Anat Cohen Presents Two New Albums: “Rosa Dos Ventos” and “Outra Coisa” (The Music of Moacir Santos) Montanha, Cristiano Alves, Nailor Proveta, Buosi and Burgani; Brasilian...
Conventional science maintains that the Human Body comprises 60% water with 73% of the brain and heart alone being water. Certainly not the artist, however, of...
Every musician hopes for, but cannot afford to wait, for that special spiritual awakening in a performance, either in the studio or on stage. It usually...
