Newpoli: Mediterraneo
The 2018 album from the wonderful contemporary Boston-based Neapolitan folkloric group Newpoli is different from any of their other work. Mediterraneo features original (as...
Bokanté + Metropole Orkest Conducted by Jules Buckley: What Heat
Michael League, guiding light of the iconic ensemble Snarky Puppy and now Bokanté, is a musician who continues to challenge the musical norm of...
Antonio Adolfo Orquestra Atlântica: Encontros
At last the renowned Brasilian musician Antonio Adolfo, pianist and pedagogue has followed esteemed fellow-Brasilians Moacir Santos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal and Mario...
Paa Kow: Cookpot
This Cookpot is a boiling and bubbling cauldron of African hi-life and every other kind of rhythmic style from Paa Kow, the energetic and...
New Caracas: Nos
That music this beautiful and life-affirming can arise from the death-defying Venezuelan consciousness of principal songwriter Luis D’Elias and this group New Caracas comprising...
Guai: Dama de Paus
It is hard not to gush on about Guai (formerly known as Karol Guaitolini) and her stunning debut album Dama de Paus. It is...
Idan Raichel: Piano • Songs
To share intensely private moments of artistry with audiences small and large is both rare and courageous. Idan Raichel exhibits both on Piano...
EMX: Eclectic Music Extravaganza
Gene Pritsker: 1: Suite No. 1 - I. I. Prelude; II. Fugue 10/8; III. Air Everywhere; IV. Postlude; 5: Circus Dreaming Rag (from "Three...
Strunz and Farah: Tales of Two Guitars
The celebrated guitar-duo of Strunz and Farah are no newcomers to the collision of music from Spain to Latin America and beyond. Indeed the...
Hopes & Dreams: The Lullaby Project
In one of the most spectacular musical projects since Quincy Jones’ We Are The World a proverbial world of musicians have come together with...
Duo Beija-Flor: Costas – Works for Guitar and Flute
Manuel de Falla: Siete Cancioñes (I – El Paño Moruno; II – Seguidilla Murciana; III – Asturiana; IV – Jota; V – Nana;...
José Peixoto | Sofia Vitória: Belo Manto
Música para Poesia Luso-Árabe e Poesia Medieval Portuguesa
If it is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call “Western” culture is owed in...
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...
Eliane Rodrigues: Claude Debussy Reflets
Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque; Ballade; Pour le Piano; Arabesque; Images Book 1; Images Book 2 Eliane Rodrigues: pf
Eliane 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...
