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Alex Cuba Band at The Highline Ballroom
by Ernest Barteldes
Alex Cuba Band Highline Ballroom New York City Oct. 10, 2009 On his first proper US tour following the release of Agua Del Pozo (Caracol, 2007), Alex Cuba took the stage backed by a strong band rounded out by Robert Johns(electric bass) and Robert diPietro (drums), playing an ...
Trans-Mediterranean Blues in Five Languages
Trans-Mediterranean Blues in Five Languages and the Instrumentarium of Abaji “I just can't play a new instrument," laughs Lebanese-born multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Abaji. “I always fall for the old broken ones. It's like one broken heart speaking to another, and I feel I can transform these old instruments into the sounds I hear in my head." ...
Alex Cuba Releases "Agua Del Pozo"
The New Face of Cuban Soul Rock from the North: Alex Cuba's Agua del Pozo Breaks the Language Barrier Mangoes sprouting in the tundra. The new face of Latin soul thriving in a hamlet a day's drive north of Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the story of guitarist, singer, and songwriter Alex Cuba, who came into ...
The Black Seeds Plant New Zealand's Roots Sounds on New Album
The Lord of the Rings put New Zealand's beauty and creative spirit on the pop culture map. Flight of the Conchords revealed New Zealand's unique wit. Now reggae/funk sensations The Black Seeds Conchord friends and former band mates are ready to take listeners one step deeper into the Other Down Under, with infectious grooves, slamming brass, ...
Vandana Vishwas's "Meera - The Lover" Releases October 11th
Devotion Embodied in Song: A Musical Story of Mystic, Heretic and Pious Indian Poetess Meera Bai It all started when adolescent Meera Bai witnessed a marriage procession and asked “Who will be my bridegroom?" Her nanny playfully showed her a miniature idol of Krishna and said 'Him!' Thus began this Indian girl's lifelong fascination. What started ...
TriBeCaStan: Strange Cousin
by Chris M. Slawecki
The musical state of mind known as TriBeCaStan was co-founded by multi-instrumentalist John Kruth (whose more colorful credits include “banshee mandolin" for rock bands the Meat Puppets and Violent Femmes) and ethnomusicologist Jeff Green. Their forces were joined, in their march toward musical independence, by bassist Dave Dreiwitz (from the band Ween), and multi-reed man Matt ...
Orchestra of Tetouan Performs the Classical Suites of Muslim Spain for U.S. Audiences
Morocco's Orchestra of Tetouan Performs the Classical Suites of Muslim Spain for US Audiences Andalusian classical music is journeying to the United States this September, thanks to the Orchestra of Tetouan. They will be making stops in Madison, WI, Chicago, Cambridge, MA, NYC and Bloomington, IN. Based in the port city of Tetouan just a stone's ...
King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame
King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn On July 18th King Sunny Ade, Nigeria's beloved entertainer and maestro of juju big band dance music, was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn's African Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Afropop Producer Sean Barlow did the honors of inducting ...
17 Hippies: US Tour and New Album
There's Gold in Them There Hinterhfe: Berlin's 17 Hippies Unearth a New Global Sound for an Old City Made New An overjoyed Algerian crowd in a freak cloudburst. Guangzhou's secret French Quarter and the whiskey-toned light on Louisiana's bayou. The deep gray gloom of back tenement courtyards and the golden promise of distant lands. Germany's quirkiest ...
Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Collaboration Releases August 18
Stone Ancestors, Forest Spirits, and Pink Floyd Across Fifteen Time Zones: Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Distill a New Sound for Tuva's Soul on Eternal The songs that echo in boreal forests and bounce off primordial peaks have a blind date in the Hollywood hills. There, carefully crafted electronica meets the horse-hair spike fiddle and ...
