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Composer Tree Adams Releases New Symphony 'ELEMENTS 4'
by Blair Ingenthron - March 31, 2024 Tree Adams has announced his latest work, “ELEMENTS 4” is out now and available everywhere you stream music.... 
TV & Film Composer Tree Adams to Release 'Elements 4' Ft. Bassekou Kouyate
by Michael Major - March 04, 2024 His credits range from the epic, and fan loved sci-fi score for Jason Rothenberg's 'The 100' to more contemporary scores for popular series like Belushi, Legends, NCIS New Orleans and NCIS Hawai'i, Lethal Weapon, Redemption Road, Californication or Swelter to name a few.... 
EMEL Announces All-Women 'MRA' LP & Shares 'Lose My Mind (ft. Nayomi)'
by Michael Major - January 26, 2024 Tunisian/American, New York City-based art pop musician Emel Mathlouthi, AKA EMEL, has announced her newest LP MRA. Alongside this announcement, she shared the new single + video “Lose My Mind (feat. Nayomi).” Watch the new music video here!... 
West Africa's Les Amazones D'Afrique Release New Single 'Flaws'
by Michael Major - January 11, 2024 Opening with an in-your-face, iconic 808 drumbeat ‘Flaws' features Mamani Keïta and Fafa Ruffino on lead vocals with instantly memorable hooks and the deft pop production work of Jacknife Lee (U2, Modest Mouse, Taylor Swift). The track is taken from their forthcoming third album, Musow Danse, out 16... 
Mali Velasquez Premieres 'Shove' Single
by Michael Major - September 12, 2023 Her latest single “Shove” sees Velasquez and producer Josef Kuhn (Samia, Annie DiRusso, Hannah Cole) seamlessly blend the realms of indie folk and grunge, creating a perfect balance between gentle vulnerability and raw intensity. The album will be released via Acrophase Records (Ginger Root, Blaketh... 
Mali Velasquez Announces Debut Album 'I'm Green'
by Michael Major - July 18, 2023 The 9-track set was produced by Josef Kuhn (Samia, Annie DiRusso, Hannah Cole) and serves as a meditation on the transformative power of both loss and shame. Out now alongside a music video directed by Reed Schick, lead single “Tore” begins in a warm, dreamy state, featuring a simple marching drum b... 
Bokanté Release New Single 'Pa Domi' Ahead of Album
by Michael Major - June 06, 2023 Interweaving layers of percussion with all the nuanced skill expected of four percussion maestros: André Ferrari of Swedish folk renegades Väsen. Ex-Berklee music professor Jamey Haddad (Sting, Paul Simon). Nagasaki-raised, New York-based Keita Ogawa (Cecile McLorin Salvant).... 
Bokanté Announces Newest Album 'History' Due Out in June
by Michael Major - May 01, 2023 Band members including Snarky Puppy guitarists Chris McQueen and Bob Lanzetti and South Florida raised-lap steel player Roosevelt Collier had previously recorded remotely, absorbing and embellishing the music sent to them in files by co-writers Tirolien and League, who was often elsewhere with other... 
Grammy-Nominated Malian Artist Fatoumata Diawara's New Album 'London Ko'
by Michael Major - March 23, 2023 With the new album, Diawara continues to reinvent traditional African music, combining her Mandinka roots with afrobeat, jazz, pop, electronic and hip hop influences. That synthesis is reflected even in the album’s title, combining the names of the Western metropolis of London with that of the Malia... 
Mali Obomsawin to Release 'Sweet Tooth' on Friday
by Michael Major - October 24, 2022 A suite for Indigenous resistance, the new album from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter Mali Obomsawin flies in the face of Western tropes that insist Indigenous cultures are monolithic, trapped in time. Instead, Obomsawin highlights centuries of clever adaptation and resistance that have f... 
Jake Blount Releases New Album 'The New Faith'
by Michael Major - September 23, 2022 Produced by Blount along with Brian Slattery, the album was recorded mainly in Blount’s own bedroom in Providence, RI. In addition to Blount, the album features guest appearances by Demeanor, D’orjay The Singing Shaman, Samuel James, Kaïa Kater, Lizzie No, Mali Obomsawin, Brandi Pace, Rissi Palmer a... 
VIDEO: Jake Blount Shares 'Didn't It Rain' Visual
by Michael Major - September 19, 2022 “Didn’t It Rain” is from Blount’s highly-anticipated new album, The New Faith. Ahead of the release, Blount has shared three album tracks: “Didn’t It Rain,” made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson, “The Downward Road,” made famous by singer Jim Williams. Watch the new music video no... 
Mali Obomsawin Releases New Single 'Odana'
by Michael Major - August 31, 2022 “Odana” flows effortlessly between the centuries, sourcing from the history of the Abenaki, and drawing this together with jazz improvisation. It may seem like Obomsawin is fusing two different cultures but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Listen to the new single now!... 
Oumou Sangaré Sets North American Tour Dates
by Michael Major - August 23, 2022 Malian diva Oumou Sangaré is set for a run of upcoming shows in select North American cities in support of her critically acclaimed new album Timbuktu. The dates will take her to both coasts, hitting Vancouver, Berkeley, Princeton and New York City. Check out the complete list of new tour dates now!... 
Queer-Country Songwriter Paisley Fields Releases New Single
by Michael Major - August 23, 2022 The music video was filmed on the Field Of Dreams baseball field in Dyersville, Iowa and is a reflection on Paisley's experience growing up queer and closeted in rural America, the fall-out after the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, and realizing he needed to get out. 'Iowa' is the third and final... 
Jake Blount Announces New Album 'The New Faith'
by Michael Major - June 22, 2022 The New Faith will be released as part of Smithsonian Folkways’ African American Legacy series—co-conceived with and supported by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Conceived, written and recorded during lockdown, the album aims to envision what Black religious ... 
Vieux Farka Touré Releases New Single 'Ngala Kaourene'
by Michael Major - May 11, 2022 Touré—who is known as the “Hendrix of the Sahara” and the son of the late Desert Blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré—spent two years making Les Racines, representing a deep reconnection with the Songhai music of Northern Mali known as Desert Blues, made famous by his father. Watch the music video for the ... 
Find Out Who Won at the 2022 GRAMMY Awards - All the Winners!
by Michael Major - April 21, 2022 The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards featured a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, a win for Barlow and Bear's 'Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,' Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett for their 'Love For Sale' Cole Porter duets album, Olivia Rodrigo, and more. Check out the full list of winners now!... 
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!... 
VIDEO: Kranium Reveals 'WI Deh Yah' Music Video
by Michael Major - February 17, 2022 “Wi Deh Yah” – Jamaican patois for “We’re here! We’ve arrived! We outside!” was recorded in Miami, FL with GRAMMY-nominated producers Bordeaux & Non Native (H.E.R., Pop Smoke), the enthusiastically confident track – which includes a sample of Alex Mali’s 2019 “Start It Up” – sets the tone for an ed... 
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... 
Kranium Releases New Single 'Wi Deh Yah'
by Michael Major - January 27, 2022 Recorded in Miami, FL with GRAMMY® Award-nominated production duo Bordeaux & Non Native (H.E.R., Pop Smoke, Lil Tjay & 6lack), “Wi Deh Yah” – Jamaican patois for “We’re here! We’ve arrived! We outside!” – sets the tone for an edgy and upbeat new approach from Kranium. Plus, check out upcoming tour d... 
Eleanor Buckland Releases Debut Single 'Don't Look Down' July 23
by TV News Desk - July 21, 2021 “Don’t Look Down” was written on Mayne Island in British Columbia while on a New Year’s trip. “On the morning of January 1st, 2015, I ran into the cold waters of Campbell Bay, plunging down to submerge myself, metaphorically cleansing myself of the previous year.... |
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