| “ | As if playing one violin within the Western art music tradition wasn't difficult enough, the virtuoso L. Shankar has made it his trade to both sing and play a customized double violin within the contexts of Hindustani, Carnatic, Western, and experimental musical sensibilities... | ” |
| “ | Women have always been at the center of sub-Saharan music, as they were the keepers of the hearth, intimately involved in the life-sustaining mysteries of agriculture, food preparation, birth, and death. However, Africa, like the rest the world, is in the throes of social change... | ” |
| “ | Belly dance or Bellydance is a Western-coined name for a traditional Middle Eastern dance, especially raqs sharqi . It is sometimes also called Middle Eastern dance or Arabic dance in the West, or by the Greco-Turkish term çiftetelli... | ” |
| “ | In this album, Shankar displays that he is adpet at the carnatic vocal as well as the (double) violin. The alapana in Chakravakam is one of the rare of its kind. It is a sheer joy to hear Shankar improvising in this song. This goes onto show Shankar has the range of voice that suits him for carnatic music. An album of three carnatic songs - with one Tilana in Hindolam | ” |
| “ | The Putumayo label has sometimes been guilty of a certain overweening multicultural earnestness in its presentation of various ethnic music traditions. On this winning compilation, though, it's all about the groove. Leading off with a cool, beat-heavy remake of Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata" and proceeding through examples of... | ” |
| “ | For this intimate yet scintillating, Grammy-nominated duet, Aashish Khan, son of the legendary Ali Akbar Khan and a brilliant sarode virtuoso, is heard with percussionist, producer, and composer Zakir Hussain, who has not only taken his ancestral tabla drums into the 21st century, but is a noted classicist with an impressive pedigree of his own. His famous father, Ustad Alla Rakha, working with sitar master Ravi Shankar, was largely responsible for bringing Indian classical music to Western ears during the 1960s... | ” |
| “ | This excellent all-round session features Paquito D'Rivera on alto, clarinet, and soprano with his sextet, which is comprised of either Fareed Haque or Ed Cherry on guitar, the great pianist Danilo Perez, bassist David Finck, drummer Jorge Rossy, and percussionist Sammy Figueroa. The program has some strong group originals (such as "Havana Cafe," "Jean Pauline," "Who's Smoking?!," and "Bossa do Brooklyn"), and the result is an often-fiery set of modern Afro-Cuban jazz. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide | ” |
| “ | One of the four guitarists (with Sabicas, Mario Escudero and Juan Serrano) who in the 1960s popularised Flamenco, first in the USA and then the rest of the World. | ” |
| “ | Introduced into a completely different climate for Latin music compared to the Afro-Cuban All Stars' 1997 debut, Distinto Diferente undoubtedly benefits from the increased commercial and artistic attention given to Afro-Cuban music in the wake of the Buena Vista Social Club (which includes many of the same members). Leader Juan de Marcos González gave Distinto Diferente a similar angle to Buena Vista, but concentrates more on the hot dance music Cuba's been known for since its 1930s and '40s boom for American vacationers. The two best-known members of Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer and Rubén González, also appear here. | ” |
| “ | This album provides a rare chance for the Western listener a chance to know deeply the sound of the tabla, a traditional instrument from India that consists of two drums. Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain are extremely skilled players, and have reached a full mastership of the this, playing a duet with various forms of rhytmic patterns. This is a valuable record for anyone who is interested in Indian music, as well as for tabla students. | ” |
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