If there’s a genre-defying band par excellence, it has to be Baba Zula. Throughout its 20-year story, celebrated this year...
Interviews
There is this trademark groovy, danceable, lightness to Sinkane’s songs that make them either deeply political music, in the same...
A reception to Fronteras, a performance by Philippe Baden Powell and Cecilia Zabala we covered at the Americas Society & Council...
There was a time, not long ago, when ‘independent’ was the new hype. During the late-1990s/early 2000s, everything needed to...
Highlight of the 2016 edition of the London International Arts Festival (LIAF), and one of the most popular and expressive...
When it comes to world music labels, you usually think about regional realities with a local or niche following. That’s...
With six albums and a nomination for the Mercury Prize on her resumé, Susheela Raman, British-Indian musician, raised between Australia...
Perched high in Garifuna music’s history is Aurelio Martinez, a songbird of vibrant, metisse, colours. Garifuna music, being that of...
In between Winter Jazzfest sets, I hurried through the slush and powder of New York City winter, in order to...
Songs mean the world. It’s especially the case when a singer, Calypso Rose, is the very first woman to perform...
There is no doubt that Brazil has not had the best period in recent years. Scandals, corruption, social unrest and...
“How can such small instruments possibly play so loud?” That’s what a member of the audience asked to BKO Quintet...