Tag Archives: Ethnic Fusion

Tinariwen is really a Tuareg group that performs a guitar-centric branch of Malian music that, towards the untrained hearing, is similar to Ali Farka Touré’s, but is a lot more rock-oriented and percussive. All the band’s musicians result from the southern Sahara; the group’s name, indicating “empty locations,” is definitely …

Flautist, composer and self-described “audio healer” Tim Wheater began his music training on the Guildhall College of Music in London, later on winning a scholarship or grant to review in Paris under Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Roger Bourdin. A stint at New York’s Eastman College of Music beneath the …

Z-Axis had become for a media efficiency event in 1997. Once the music artists sensed the chemistry was best, they made a decision to pursue the experience as a music group in their very own best. Disillusioned by the complete music picture, keyboardist Allen Welty-Green known as it quits within …

Accordion Tribe, an all-star band of world-renowned accordionists, originally assembled for a short task in the later ’90s. American accordionist Man Klucevsek brought together Sweden’s Lars Hollmer (Samla Mammas Manna), Finland’s Maria Kalaniemi, Austria’s Otto Lechner, and Slovenia’s Bratko Bibic (Begnagrad, Nimal). Each one of the musicians added repertoire towards …

Formed over the first day of 1998, Anubis Spire documented their first CD within a barn. The music artists in the music group are Michael Leo Brothers (tempo electric guitar and vocals), Tim Costley (bass electric guitar), Mick Loher (drums), and Costs MacKechnie (lead electric guitar and vocals). MacKechnie and …

Although located in Houston, TX, Moodafaruka, led by guitarist Rom Ryan, certainly are a world group combining flamenco, Middle Eastern, and Spanish designs. Ryan, who resolved in Houston in 1988, produced two single albums before teaming with percussionist Terrence Karn to create Moodafaruka. He developed the name by changing the …

A university-trained percussionist, Japan musician Yasukazu Sato gained attention for his international travels as composer for the innovative dance group Sankaijuku. His uncommon combination of historic Oriental forms, roomy musical atmospheres, and ceremonial percussion supplied perfect accompaniment towards the ritualistic actions and gradually unfolding acrobatic feats of the contemporary Japanese …

Though these were initially discovered while using at a little club in Puerto Vallarta, the acoustic duo of Willie Royal and Wolfgang “Lobo” Fink have been influenced with the music of the whole planet — Royal, though given birth to in Texas, traveled along with his Air Force father to …

Abida Parveen is really a rarity in the wonderful world of Sufi music, a lady lead performer. She actually is the girl of prominent Pakistani vocalist Ustad Ghulam Haider, who (relatively bravely) disregarded convention and allowed her to review under him, and she also followed him to different religious performances. …

Merging the musical traditions of Chile with classical and Latin American affects, Subhira (given birth to Rodrigo Cepeda) has generated a few of Central America’s most adventurous music. Furthermore to providing soundtracks for Chilean movies and video documentaries, Subhira offers recorded like a soloist and in cooperation along with his …