The fact that the English-speaking world knows little or nothing about Brasil and its artists is borne out by this remarkable recording by the San-São Trio...
The composer trumpeter, pianist and – now we know – manipulator of a myriad electronic boards, Martin Loyato, has delivered his magnum opus in Cinematic Tales,...
The Garifuna story began when the cultural topography of the Caribs of St Vincent collided with that of the West Africans sometime after 1675. Through the...
If you haven’t heard of Claudia Villela yet, this is an excellent disc to make her acquaintance. And if you’ve heard her before, then you’ll find...
Elliot Cole – Roda – Movement I: Turning; Roda – Movement II: Dreaming; Roda – Movement III Spinning; Roda – Movement IV: Singing (2017); Alexis C....
Eric Sessler – Dreams from Life Awake I: Reverberation-Exploration-Flow; Dreams from Life Awake II: Tenderness-Love-Warmth; Dreams from Life Awake III Evolution-Growth-Transformation; Dreams from Life Awake IV:...
Every song tells a story on Echo Chamber by the inimitable Gino Sitson. Although he is multi-lingual, Mr Sitson sings his stories – in the grand...
Doors: Three Poems by W.S. Merwin for soprano, clarinet, cello and piano; Questions of Travel: for clarinet, cello and piano; To Paradise for Onions: for clarinet...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 – Overture; The Beatles 2: Yesterday; Fritz Kreisler 3: Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of...
Filó Machado is one of a new generation of Brasilian composers that has been flying under the radar in a substantial part of the world (though...
As we (all seven billion of us) spin on our blue, spaceship earth, inexorably into the future, twenty-four hours of the day, three hundred and sixty-five...
Like both their previous recordings Third Journey by Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg is a benchmark one; historic in so many ways, just as the very...
Karim Maurice: Odysseus Fantasy 1: Circe; 2: Blues for Nobody; 3: Calypso; 4: Weave & Undo; 5: Do Not Open the Aeolus’s Bag; 6: When The...
Summer is music festival season in Canada and the rest of North America too. And while it’s easy to lose share of voice in the skirmish...
It seems that there is no end to the number of incarnations in which the chameleonic Tcha Limberger will appear. So it’s no surprise to find...
The Ottoman Turks had their roots in the vast region of Central Asia, which extended from the Caspian Sea in the west to Mongolia in the...
This album Lunga is the first full-length one by the vocalist Sofia Ribeiro since Mar Sonoro (2016). All it will take is a few bars into...
This splendid 2019 disc by Väsen shows the musicians that make up this fascinating Swedish trio heading off to the interior landscape of their child- (and...
This recording by Benji Kaplan and Rita Figueiredo is a benchmark recording in many more ways than one. The biggest deal may be the fact that...
Glaschu, an epic hometown love song, by Mary Ann Kennedy is a glorious record. Simply glorious. A Scot from Glasgow, Miss Kennedy is possessed of a...
