El Naán: La Danza de las Semillas
The title of this remarkable album La Danza de las Semillas by El Naán is both a metaphor and an extended allegory. The...
Hugo Fattoruso Y Barrio Opa
Whether it is from the being a part of the group that accompanied the Maestro Chico Buarque on his legendary Ao Vivo le Zenith...
Alexandra Jackson: Legacy & Alchemy
There are many ways for Americans to make Brasilian albums – many by singing in Brasilian-inflected Portuguese, sung phonetically, and not always convincingly –...
Jane Antonia Cornish: Constellations
Jane Antonia Cornish: 1: Constellations I; 2: Lux; 3: Beyond the Sky; 4: Wave Cycles; 5: Constellations II. Vicky Chow: pf (1, 2, 4,...
Miloš Katanic: The Breath
Tauan Gonzalez Sposito: Ananke; Antonio Correa: Wind 1A; Robert Moran: Miami City Slink; Fisches Nachtgesang; Philip Glass, Robert Moran: Modern Love Waltz; Anthony Fiumara:...
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: Routes
There can be no doubt that once the great ethnomusicologist Verna Gillis really introduced the world to African music, the celebrated genius, Youssou N'Dour...
Elaine Rodrigues: Claude Debussy Reflets
Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque; Ballade; Pour le Piano; Arabesque; Images Book 1; Images Book 2 Elaine Rodrigues: pf
Elaine Rodrigues plays Claude Debussy the...
Eleanor Dubinsky: Soft Spot of My Heart
To be, even an accomplished linguist – as Eleanor Dubinsky clearly is – does not qualify one to be able to sing and emote...
Coline-Marie Orliac: Harpistically Yours, Chopin
Frédéric Chopin - Etude, Op. 25, No. 1; Ballade, Op. 23, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2. Songs:...
Steinar Aadnekvam: Freedoms Trio II
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...
Edu Passeto and Gui Tavares: Noite Que Brincou De Lua
Elan, intelligence and passionate engagement: vocalists and guitarists Edu Passeto and Gui Tavares bring all this out in these exemplary performances on Noite que...
Juan Andrés Ospina Big Band: Tramontana
Juan Andrés Ospina enriches music in incalculable ways. First there is his attractive way with melody, which he enriches with the kind of flirtatious...
Edu Leal e a Conjuntura: Livre
The structural plan of this recording entitled Livre by Edu Leal and the group of musicians who accompany him on this quest is about...
David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana: Conversation of the Birds
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...
The Turbans: Presenting The Turbans
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,...
Frank Wagner: Frank Wagner’s Floating Holiday
There are, after all, many ways to make an uplifting Jazz album, but one that manages to convey its deeply personal sources of inspiration,...
Benji Kaplan: Chorando Sete Cores
Benji Kaplan is an American, a New Yorker to be precise, but listening to his music you would never know that. He plays as...
KUNÉ Canada’s Global Orchestra
Ever since the legendary Jazz trumpeter first coined the phrase “World Music” to describe the new idiom in which he was expressing his music...
Kiran Ahluwalia: 7 Billion
Kiran Ahluwalia occupies a very special place in the vocal music of the Indian subcontinent. Her chameleonic versatility enables her to move seamlessly between...
Mãe da Lua: Kalibé
That the seemingly oracular Brasilian lyricist and musician Mãe da Lua is in tune with the environment where in the world she may be...
