Tag Archives: Ethnic Fusion

The Navajo traditions of New Mexico are preserved with the music and songs of Sharon Burch. Specialized in the sacredness of NATURE and Father Sunlight, Burch is constantly on the accept traditional Navajo prayers, chants, and tracks. Her second recording, Touch the Lovely Globe, which received an INDIE award as …

The musical traditions of Bolivia as well as the Andean Mountains are resurrected with the music of Bolivia-formed and southern California-based quintet Alturas. The group, nevertheless, has regularly branched out to a very much wider repertoire including Xmas music and pop music including “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, “La Bamba’ and …

Probably one of the most internationally successful Western African musicians from the ’90s, Ali Farka Touré was referred to as “the African John Lee Hooker” thus many times it probably started to grate on both Touré’s and Hooker’s nerves. There’s a large amount of truth towards the assessment, however, and …

Alice Gomez pulls upon her multicultural traditions (Mexican Indian and Latino) to generate her unique recordings, which she has electric guitar, synthesizer, percussion, and vocal chants. Gomez is normally composer-in-residence using the San Antonio Symphony, for whom she’s composed several orchestral and chamber functions rooted within the Southwest’s Latino/Indian traditions. …

California’s Anjali Ranadivé (aka Anjali Globe) is a gifted R&B vocalist/songwriter and sea conservationist whose music incorporates electronic dance, Bollywood, and hip-hop affects. Delivered in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region in 1992, Ranadivé was raised in a innovative, socially minded family members, the girl of Indian-American businessman Vivek …

Hailing from London via Addis Ababa, Krar Collective certainly are a trio whose unique and powerful undertake Ethiopian music provides made them increasing stars in the globe music community. The musical keystone of the group may be the krar, a normal Ethiopian lyre with six strings. In Krar Collective, the …

Cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog attended the same senior high school in Vienna, Virginia (outdoors Washington, D.C.) through the 1990s, but didn’t start playing music jointly until their high-school years had been in it. Leppin was raised in Wedderburn, a grouping of little cottages inside a secluded wooded …

Canadian duo Mythos synthesize dance is better than, different world musics, and modern sensibilities in a way comparable to an Enigma or Deep Forest. Bob D’Eith (keyboards) and Paul Schmidt (acoustic guitar) was raised in Vancouver, both getting classical training on the respective tools; D’Eith got previously performed in the …

The stage name of German actress and musician Senta-Sofia Delliponti, Oonagh (the name comes from a famous faerie queen of Celtic origins) specializes in evocative, modern, Celtic-infused, fantasy dance-pop. Delliponti, who sings in the fictitious, J.R.R. Tolkien-invented Elvish tongue, released her eponymous 1st full-length studio recording beneath the moniker through …

Having applied hatha yoga and meditation since she was an adolescent, graduating from Oberlin University using a degree in Executing Arts was yet another stage toward getting the singer/dancer/spiritual seeker referred to as Wah!. She got time post-university to go to Ghana and Nigeria as an associate from the Arthur …