Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...

Until recently if you were to Google the word ‘jihad’, guess which region of the world you’d be referred to, Palestine maybe, or Iraq ? T...

The term ‘Afro-Cuban’ was always something of a misnomer, and ‘Afro-Caribe’ is no different, applying logic to some past event that wa...

New Year in Thailand is something of a joke, i.e. ‘which one’? Never one to sit out a party, Thailand celebrates them all...

When you think of Native American music, you probably think of it most often as a genre, typically exemplified by the prominent ro...

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the nuclear musical group is quickly going the way of the nuclear family- whoever shows up for Sunday...

Were you expecting Chipmunk-like vocals from some Hindi-language Bollywood-based diva, maybe? Or perhaps you were thinking of tablas ...

It had to happen sooner or later… that world music would produce a successful collaboration of African classical with Western classica...

The Garifuna people are one of the most unlikely success stories in the long sordid histories of both the African diaspora AND the Nat...

Though Frau Merkel may have unilaterally declared ‘multi-kulti’ to be dead, the reality at ground zero of world music would hardly a...

One of my first philosophical proclamations- at the ripe old age of eight- was that all of the suitable themes for popular music had ...