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

I don’t remember if I went to Ethiopia first or listened to the album Ethiopiques first- the two events were more or less simultaneous- but...

What Ali Farka Toure’ accomplished with his Talking Timbuktu album with Ry Cooder, has been consolidated and spread like wildfire through ...

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...