Features
Tuesday, March 31 2009
WOMADelaide 2009
From the fanaticism that surrounded Seun Kuti’s Saturday night performance to the seated crowd that succumbed to Dona Rosa’s smile, WOMADelaide was a mix of sights, styles, and instruments.
Thursday, December 11 2008
The Best World Music of 2008
Albums from India, Central America, Australia, Quebec, and Ethiopia are but a globetrotting fraction of the year's best music from around the world.
Wednesday, July 9 2008
Saint Vinnie
Deanne Sole journeys Melbourne's charity outlets, exploring the fundamentals of the down under St. Vincent de Paul outlet: Bargains, surprises, drunks.
Tuesday, December 18 2007
Kids Don't Go and Buy Anything Out of This Section: World Music 2007
As a category world music is both useful and frustrating. It puts CDs on the shelves and prevents people picking them up. It is the other-than category: other-than rock, other-than indie, other-than everything. It is the whole world and nothing definite.
Tuesday, December 12 2006
East and West: World Music in 2006
From Thailand to Tanzania, from France to Cuba and Romania: Deanne Sole's wrap-up of the year's best world music trips the globe fantastic.
Reviews
Tuesday, February 7 2012
TriBeCaStan: New Deli
The forte of this genial and energetic New York collective is not songwriting but jam management.
Tuesday, January 10 2012
KG Omulo: Ayah Ye! Moving Train
Ideally the music and the singer should unite in some way but here they seem to be fighting.
Tuesday, January 3 2012
Chris Watson: El Tren Fantasma
This is a great example of a sound recordist's art, like the uncanny soundtrack to a very solid dream.
Tuesday, January 3 2012
Olivia Wyatt: Staring Into the Sun
Sublime Frequencies is modern. It steps back, it does not commit, its presentation prefers not to speak at all.
Friday, December 16 2011
Artificial Lover: Nava
Oouchi Kazunori gives his shamisen a vortex presence, large and central, distorting the sound electronically, fraying it, cutting into it.
Blogs
Friday, December 18 2009
Various Artists: Legends of Benin
Various Artists: Legends of Benin - Analog Africa [$25.98]




































