(Mexico) Hey who's the guy in the Devo hat? It's Mexican Institute of Sound's DJ and producer Camilo Lara. By day, Lara is the president of EMI Mexico and at...
Kanun (or qanun) is a stringed instrument related to the zither, found in Near Eastern music. Tamer Pinarbasi is a kanun virtuoso, who over twenty years has developed his own...
(Brazil) The velvet voiced Lima is back, this time with a song of her own composition. "Vou Deixar" is a song about attraction, and it fairly drips with flirtation. It's...
(Poland) "Lament" is a traditional rural song that has been reprocessed through the Warsaw Village Band's uniquely urban approach. While the lyrics read like a fairly typical story of a...
Scott Kettner, musician, bandleader and entrepreneur, is a passionate advocate for Northeastern Brazilian music. In this video, watch an interview with Scott, and listen to his Forro Brass Band. For...
(Mexico) In the movie "Rudo Y Cursi", which roughly translates to "Tough and Prissy", two brothers leave their banana farm in Jalisco to gain fame and fortune as soccer players...
This documentary offers an intimate portrait of Alim Qasimov, Azerbaijan's most beloved traditional singer, and his daughter, Fargana, following their musical lives in Baku, Azerbaijan?s capital city.
The shashmaqam is one of the primary styles of court music that flourished in the Silk Road cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, and Tashkent. The roots of Shashmaqam lie...
(Iran/US) "Restless my sleep, beyond words my grief Alone I lie at night In the embrace of your apparition" After Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq war was the longest war of the...
(Azerbaijan) When Aygun Baylar sings the demanding repertoire of Azerbaijani muggam, there is something beyond the sheer power of her voice that one is struck with. There is an emotional...
In the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, poetically called the "Roof of the World", trance-like rhythms and piercing melodies propel these vivid performances of Badakhshani folk songs, dance music, and...
(Finland) It's a play on words (svangtime = swingtime), and fun all around. This good natured cakewalk from Finland struts its stuff and we just have to laugh. As usual...
(Brazil) While she may not (yet) be a household name in Brazilian music, Paula Lima is on the rise because she has definitely got what it takes; a velvety true...
From Kabul to California, Homayun Sakhi is admired as the outstanding Afghan rubâb player of his generation, a charismatic virtuoso who has pushed the limits of his instrument. With tabla...
From mountainous Kyrgyzstan, Jew's harps, fiddles, plucked stringed instruments, and powerful voices transmit the vibrant rhythms of nomadism and the serene atmosphere of the Kyrgyz mountains in a musical language...
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