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Cigdem Aslan Touches History with "Mortissa"
A century or more ago, in cities like Smyra, Thessaloniki, and Istanbul, Greeks and Turks lived peacefully side by side during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. People laughed and loved and sang together. In the bars and the hash houses, they played the music that was the root of what came to be called ...
Tev Stevig's Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home
For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he ...
Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home on Jeni Jol

For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he ...
I Am in the World and the World Is in Me; Paula Santoro New Release

Celebrated Brazilian Vocal Stylist Paula Santoro Steps Into the International Limelight with Mar do Meu Mundo (The Sea in My World) release: Nov. 19th, a Marriage of Jazz Freedom and Modern Brazilian Sounds Containing an Upbeat, Moving, and Very Personal Vision It’s not often that a new star emerges on the international music scene with a ...
South African Jazz Reawakens: The Recording Debut of Kheswa & Her Martians

Nowhere do the parallel cultural identities of South Africa and the United States—nowhere does our parallel racial ethos—speak to us more intriguingly than through jazz. The jazz vernacular has thrived in both countries thanks to a visceral connection to abstract truths and cultural realities owned in common by our two countries. If you are hip to ...
Antonio Loureira Mixes Things Up, from Brazil to the Globe
“I didn’t want to make music that was exactly right. It makes me frustrated. I want to have fun. I want to play.” Antonio Loureiro is a man with a singular vision for his music. For the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and singer, the magic exists in the moment, in spontaneity, where barriers between songs and instrumentals don’t ...
Newpoli: Music Beyond The Tarantula’s Bite
Sometimes you don’t understand what you have until you leave it behind. It can be people, places. It can even be the music. That’s definitely the case with Newpoli. When the founding members left Italy to study jazz at Berklee College of Music, they never imagined that they’d end up performing the folk music of their ...
Drinking From the Fountain: Brazil’s Mario Adnet Revels in Villa-Lobos’ Lush Legacy on "Um Olhar Sobre Villa-Lobos"
“I don't use folklore, I am the folklore,” Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos stated boldly while on one of many tours in Europe. Able to compose art songs and then go jam with street bands, Villa-Lobos gave birth to modern Brazilian music, both classical and popular. Latin Grammy-winning composer, arranger, and performer Mario Adnet has traced this ...
Mario Adnet: Um Olhar Sobre Villa-Lobos

by James Nadal
The music of Brazil is generalized with sambas and bossa novas and visualized by the colorful carnivals the country is so famous for. But Brazilian music also has a sophisticated presence, traced back to the influential composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) and his prolific compositions known for melding indigenous and folkloric songs and rhythms with European classical ...
Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz Welcome All to "Go Calypsonian" (Piranah)
Vintage calypso — the beloved Caribbean sounds of the early 20th-century — is alive and well and thriving in Berlin. The seventeen-member strong, multinational, wildly effusive, charmingly quirky Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz packs the city’s bars and stages with swaying beats, hot horns, bold lyrics, and a bevy of dapper, rakish suits and bathing-beauty ...