Night Safari is the first full-length album in six years from Andrea Mangia, who writes, records and produces under the moniker of Populous. And the new album is something of a return to form for Mangia, […]
Tag: world music
Originally founded back in 1964 by the Dominican bandleader and composer Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American lawyer, Jerry Masucci, Fania Records quickly became the beloved home of salsa music, the sound that courses through the barrios of […]
Led by guitarist and producer Jacob Plasse and featuring members of the Daptones rhythm section, Los Hacheros and the Pedrito Martinez Group, Pelirjoa, is a New York-based collective that’s inspired by the sounds of Ethiopia, […]
The Montreal, QC-based Rishi Dihr and his band Elephant Stone released their self-titled, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records last year, and the album deftly used elements of traditional Eastern songwriting and instrumentation with Western songwriting and instrumentation to create […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3877283800/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ Over the last two decades, the Richmond, VA-based salsa act Bio Ritmo have developed a reputation for experimentation and stubbornly refusing to be pigeonholed, as they’ve employed the use of synths, along with traditional salsa […]
DJ Captain Planet has developed a reputation for his production style – a style that’s essentially a sweaty, dance floor orientated funk. His latest album Esperanto Slang drops today, and the first single “Un Poquito Mas” features […]
There’s something about the rhythms of salsa that automatically brings summer to mind – or more precisely the sounds of the streets of Corona, Queens during the summer, as you’d hear salsa being played from […]
When DJ Felix Pacheco and saxophonist/flutist Joe Woullard (of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and Hardproof) started the Austin, TX-based Cilantro Boombox, it was originally a studio-based collaboration between the two; however, in the […]
Hannah Thiem is a producer and violinist whose music is influenced by a deep appreciation of electronic and ambient soundscapes, as well as Eastern European, Nordic and Middle Eastern music. “Phavet”(pronounced Fa-vey) is the first single […]
As the co-founder of Monotonix, guitarist (and composer) Yonatan Gat was part of a band that was once hailed as being one of most intense rock bands in the world. But after five years of recording and touring, […]
The Denver, CO/Fort Collins, CO-based, Euforquestra (pronounced yoo—four-keh-struh) — by way of Iowa City, IA — have developed a reputation for a sound that bends and blurs genres and expectations, and for a relentless touring schedule. Fire, the band’s first […]
The Brooklyn-based collective of Underground System formed back in 2010, and when they originally formed their primary influences were the legendary Fela Kutii and the Western Africa/Afrobeat aesthetic. However, thanks to residing in one of […]
As the co-founder of Monotonix, guitarist and composer Yonatan Gat was part of a band that was once hailed as being one of most intense rock bands in the world. But after five years of […]
Legend has it that a traveling witch doctor and her disciples were led to an extremely tiny and remote Northern Swedish village by an unknown Sami traveller. The reason the traveller lead the witch doctor […]
As an artist, the Buenos Aires-based Juana Molina has developed a reputation for a restless experimentalism. In fact, her latest effort, Wed 21 which Crammed Discs Records released a few months ago was written and conceived in Molina’s studio – and […]