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Global Music Collective The Scooches Release New Single 'Stop This Climate Change' For Earth Day
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 21, 2023 Global music sensation The Scooches have released a vital new single entitled 'Stop This Climate Change,' a poetic and uplifting call to action fraught with cataclysmic imagery, yet infused with the desire for change.... 
Baaba Maal Releases New Track 'Agreement'
by Michael Major - January 25, 2023 Production from Johan Hugo treads a magical line between ancient and modern, the hypnotic, looping track emerges from a riff played by Barou Sall, a Hoddu master and long time Baaba Maal collaborator. This traditional Senegalese instrument which prefigures the banjo accompanies Baaba’s pure, searchi... 
VIDEO: Oumou Sangaré Shares 'Wassulu Don' Music Video
by Michael Major - March 08, 2022 Global superstar and feminist icon Oumou Sangaré’s new single “Wassulu Don” is out today, coinciding with International Women’s Day. The music video features a series of vignettes of modern African women celebrating and thriving in their own hometown communities. Watch the new visual now!... 
Grammy-Winner Oumou Sangaré Releases New Single 'Sarama'
by Michael Major - February 08, 2022 Grammy Award-winning global superstar Oumou Sangaré makes her return to the World Circuit label for the release her new album Timbuktu. Recorded in multiple locations in the U.S., Mali and France, Timbuktu is her first new material since 2017’s critically acclaimed Mogoya. Listen to the album's lead... 
Toumani Diabaté & the London Symphony Orchestra Debut New Track 'Elyne Road'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 31, 2021 Toumani further elaborates on the project, “African music has a mystic and classical side, a divinity…it is not only about dance, and people need to know this.” ... 
Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso Mark Vickness To Release Second Album 'Interconnected'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 16, 2020 Three years after releasing his debut solo CD, Places, composer/guitarist, Mark Vickness releases Interconnected featuring four new solo modern fingerstyle compositions and four original pieces.... 
Malian Guitarist Sidi Touré Announces New Album AFRIK TOUN ME
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 20, 2020 One of Mali's most enduring and buoyant artists, Sidi Touré has announced forthcoming new album Afrik Toun Mé (in English, Africa Must Unite), due out September 11th on Thrill Jockey Records. Following the boisterous full band of arrangements of his 2018 release Toubalbero, Afrik Toun Mé is an album... 
Afel Bocoum Premieres New Track 'Dakamana'
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 14, 2020 In celebration of Malian songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum's forthcoming studio album Lindé—due September 4 via World Circuit Records and executive produced by Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and World Circuit's Nick Gold—Bocoum is premiering the album track “Dakamana.”... 
Afel Bocoum Announces New Album LINDE & Premieres Music Video for 'Avion'
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 10, 2020 Celebrated Malian songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum's new studio album Lindé is due September 4 via World Circuit Records.... 
Jessica And Tony Jones Announce Two New Releases
by A.A. Cristi - December 21, 2018 A savvy bandleader, intrepid improviser, gifted composer and veteran educator who's mentored some of jazz's finest 21s t century artists, Brooklyn tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones adds to her stellar discography with Continuum, an album that embodies her approach to jazz as a seamless flow passed bet... 
Lotus World Music & Arts Festival Celebrates 25 Years
by Tori Hartshorn - September 24, 2018 The 25th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival will fill the streets of downtown Bloomington, Indiana with sights and sounds from around the globe (September 27-30, 2018). Thirty international artists, free large-scale art installations, and events for all ages will fill 14 downtown Bloomington ... 
Playing For Change Launches New Monthly Video Series & Album LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
by Tori Hartshorn - February 02, 2018 Playing For Change Launches New Monthly Video Series & Album LISTEN TO THE MUSIC... 
PLAYING FOR CHANGE Launches New Monthly Video Series & Announces New Album LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
by Tori Hartshorn - February 01, 2018 PLAYING FOR CHANGE Launches New Monthly Video Series & Announces New Album LISTEN TO THE MUSIC...
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet's New Album 'Ladilikan' Out Today
by Caryn Robbins - September 15, 2017 Acclaimed Malian group Trio Da Kali and revolutionary string ensemble Kronos Quartet's first collaborative studio album, Ladilikan, is out now via World Circuit Records. In support of the new record, Trio Da Kali will perform select shows in North America this fall including stops in Chicago, Seattl...
Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet Unveil New Album 'Ladilikan' This September
by Caryn Robbins - July 18, 2017 Acclaimed Malian group Trio Da Kali and revolutionary string ensemble Kronos Quartet's first collaborative studio album, Ladilikan, is due out on September 15 via World Circuit Records.... |
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