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Khaira Arby and Her Band Tour the US in July
Malian Titan Khaira Arby and Her Band return to the US for Summer Tour Triumphant after a successful Spring tour, and receiving the 2011 Tamani D'Or Award (Mali's highest musical honor), Khaira Arby will make a stateside encore for a national tour of the US coming up in July. Arby mesmerized audiences at this year's SXSW ...
Alt-Arab Quintet Shusmo Releases New Album June 23
Whacha-maqam-it: Shusmo Gets Mumtastic with Classical Arabic Funk Shusmo is a secret passageway that winds past all the barriers dividing Arabic maqam from down-and-dirty funk, Latin spark, and swinging jazz. Headed by Palestinian pianist and buzuq player Tareq Abboushi, the quintet leads you to a little underground club where pensive classical forms meet dance floor-friendly vibes, ...
Back Home in Mali, Khaira Arby Wins National Award
The Tamani d'Or: Mali Lavishes Love on Crossover Indie Darling and Pioneering Singer Khaira Arby with an Achievement Award It's a rare artist who can take the U.S. media and SXSW by storm while garnering profound respect as a cultural leader in her homeland. And it's even rarer when that artist can keep true to her ...
Freshlyground Announces Debut North American tour
Zulu Double Stops and Cape Town Grooves: Freshlyground Bursts With the Bright Sound of South Africa on Debut North American Tour, June-July, 2011 Zulu folk fiddle and Xhosa poetry. Rebel reggae bass and Afropop guitar. Thumb piano and vintage delay. And's that's just one track. Beyond eclecticism for its own sake, the seven-piece, multi-generational, and multi-ethnic ...
Terakaft & the Desert Blues
Old-school rock rebels and musical elders from the desert. Terakaft brings together the raw sounds of minimal indie guitar rock and the swaying pulse of Saharan journeys. They harness the energy of flirtatious midnight songs and the gravitas of respected advisors calling for peace and unity. Tuareg guitar warriors, Terakaft keeps alive the musical spirit honed ...
John Martyn: Heaven and Earth
by John Kelman
In a world filled with happiness and hurt, there's a gaping chasm between those that are aware and those that aren't. When John Martyn passed away months before his 60th birthday in 2009, the world lost one of the most painfully confessional singer/songwriters of the past half century. “Some people keep diaries," said Phil Cunningham in ...
Boubacar Traore CD Release: "Mali Danhou" June 14
Down Home in Bamako: Boubacar Traoré and the Mischievously Subtle Guitar Blues of Mali Denhou Boubacar Traoré took his guitar and strode out into the fields outside of Bamako, Mali. There, in the country quiet, he wrote a dozen new songs in a month. “Town is too noisy. And I didn't go to the bush, but ...
Paul Winter Consort: Miho - Journey to the Mountain
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Paul Winter's music pulsates with the earth's polyrhythmic heartbeat. Various incarnations of his Consort have been so in tune with the ground beneath their feet that this ensemble, in all its forms, has come to be the harbinger of the wellspring of all life. From time to time, Winter's soul has roamed the realms where mysticism ...
Youssou Ndour Album Release & Tour
In Marley's Footsteps: Youssou Ndour Discovers the African Heart of Reggae on Dakar-Kingston Youssou Ndour's journey to Kingston began with the music pulsing from the Dakar market stalls of his childhood. It began during long hours of listening to reggae LPs from his uncle's record store. It continued decades later, long after Ndour became one of ...
Blitz the Ambassador to Release "Native Sun"
Blitz the Ambassador Brings the Pan-African Noise with Native Sun A blindingly bright clarity drives Blitz the Ambassador. With a spot-on sense of flow, he name-checks Basquiat and Lumumba, evokes lovelorn sighs on Accra buses, émigré alienation, history's shadows. All set to swirls of brass, distorted guitars, and the crackle and pop of old amplifiers. With ...
