Results for "Voyagers"

Banning Eyre

Banning Eyre is an author, guitarist, photographer, and Senior Producer for the Peabody Award-winning public radio series Afropop Worldwide. His work has taken him to over 25 African countries to research local music. Eyre has produced over 180 Afropop episodes including in-depth coverage of Mali, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Lebanon, Madagascar and Nigeria. He comments on world music for NPR’s All Things Considered. In May, 2015, Duke University Press published his fourth book, Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe, which won the 2016 Society for Ethnomusicology African Music Section Kwabena Nketia Book Prize

Voyagers

By Michaela Rabitsch

Label: Extraplatte
Released: 2012
Track listing: Seven Ways to Fez; Varna; Unique; The Long Road; Serbian Rhapsody; Walk in the Sun; Malaga; Round Midnight; Money; Cienfuegos.

Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet: Voyagers

by Ian Patterson
December 25, 2012

Trumpeter Michaela Rabitsch and guitarist Robert Pawlik's partnership spans fifteen years and, until now, three joint recordings. Their fourth recording presents another offering of all-originals, following Moods (Extrapolate, 2009), and is inspired by tours of Europe, Asia and Africa. Melody and groove are firmly to the forefront, evoking Balkan, Spanish and Arabic moods, as well as ...

Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet: Voyagers

by C. Michael Bailey
November 4, 2012

Austrian vocalist/trumpeter Michaela Rabitsch and guitarist Robert Pawlik have fronted a quartet and performed as a duo for the past 15 years, releasing three CDs ahead of the present Voyagers. Concentrating on original compositions that lean in a commercial-popular direction, the pair has received a good deal of buzz. The majority of Voyagers is prepared very ...

DEEP SPACE

By Andrea Centazzo

Label: Ictus Records
Released: 2007