To be, even an accomplished linguist – as Eleanor Dubinsky clearly is – does not qualify one to be able to sing and emote in every...
Frédéric Chopin – Etude, Op. 25, No. 1; Ballade, Op. 23, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2. Songs: Zyczenie (A...
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 and his...
Elan, intelligence and passionate engagement: vocalists and guitarists Edu Passeto and Gui Tavares bring all this out in these exemplary performances on Noite que Brincou de...
Juan Andrés Ospina enriches music in incalculable ways. First there is his attractive way with melody, which he enriches with the kind of flirtatious rhythm that...
The structural plan of this recording entitled Livre by Edu Leal and the group of musicians who accompany him on this quest is about experiencing life...
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 that transports...
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, klezmer, Moroccan,...
There are, after all, many ways to make an uplifting Jazz album, but one that manages to convey its deeply personal sources of inspiration, while at...
Benji Kaplan is an American, a New Yorker to be precise, but listening to his music you would never know that. He plays as if as...
Ever since the legendary Jazz trumpeter first coined the phrase “World Music” to describe the new idiom in which he was expressing his music in Sweden,...
Kiran Ahluwalia occupies a very special place in the vocal music of the Indian subcontinent. Her chameleonic versatility enables her to move seamlessly between classical, traditional...
That the seemingly oracular Brasilian lyricist and musician Mãe da Lua is in tune with the environment where in the world she may be is clear...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured of...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For me...
Pé de Moleque, Quebra Queixo, Algadao Doce, Pacoca, Sambossa – Celso Machado; Nachele Tempo – Benedito Lacerda, Pixinguinha & Fabio Oliveira; Choro Negro – Paulinho da...
There was a time in the history of civilisations when global travel was tediously slow, treacherous and conducted only via overland and maritime routes. Ironically this...
The music called choro has variously been compared with ragtime and other styles that grew out of early New Orleans and with danzón from Cuba. But...
The rather irreverent Swedish contemporary ensemble, teaming up with the Sufi singer, Shamim Naghedi are propelled from their romp around 1960s and 1970s Sweden into a...
With the plethora of discs with wonderful music glorifying the tango, it is often tempting to think that the music of Argentina is just the tango...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have...
John Cage The Complete Etudes Australes – Grete Sultan: pf Guru to some, charlatan to others, John Cage constantly challenged the very idea...
This is a spectacularly original album Jaku Mumor – an ethnomusicologist’s delight – is a mystical album of music with...
A string gently caressed, somewhere between pizzicato and a curved legato seemingly played with soft flesh; a chord strummed on...
Even with a first spin of this recording Legado one wonders who but Berta Rojas could have played this music...
Nella Rojas, or simply Nella, is a new voice hailing from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita Born in Venezuela, Nella...
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux: so many bands that...
Alex Cuba is a Latin Grammy/Juno winner, singer-songwriter who is not tied to tradition; Alex has a vast musical vision....