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...
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...
