A couple of weeks ago, i wrote about a collaboration between the Turkish house production and DJ duo Paradisko’s collaboration with German electronic music outfit Final DJs on the Turkish duo’s sophomore effort Astropine, an EP slated for a November […]
Tag: world music
Alo Wala is a trio that may arguably be at the forefront of a truly global bass movement, and not in the sense that most Americans/Westerners would think of global music — that is, something decidedly […]
Daniel Lanois is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer, who’s best known for his production work with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Brandon Flowers and U2’s most beloved and famous album, The […]
Abstrakto is a unique pairing between Ozomatli’s vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Asdru Sierra and actor and producer (who knew?) Balthazar Getty, and the first single and video off the their recently released self-titled debut, “Marcando Paso.” […]
Singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante is probably best known in indie rock circles for his time as a member of Little Joy and Los Hermanos. Easy Sound Records released Amarante’s solo debut, Cavalo, a couple of months ago, and the material on the album […]
Andrzej Zagajewski is a Krakow, Poland-based producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and vocalist, who performs in a number of bands in which he plays tenor mandolin (his primary instrument) banjo, and saz (a stringed musical instrument related to the lute, played in the […]
Led by guitarist and producer Jacob Plasse and featuring members of the Daptones rhythm section, Los Hacheros and the Pedrito Martinez Group, Peliroja, is a New York-based collective that’s inspired by the sounds of Ethiopia, the Domnican Republic, […]
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, […]
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 […]