World Music

Fuse Preview: Jazz Festivals in New England Close Out June

June 17, 2016
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Summer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.

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Fuse Jazz Preview: Southeast by Northwest, the Festival Season Kicks Off this Weekend

June 4, 2016
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From Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.

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Music Interview: Debo Band — Another Side of Ethio-Groove

May 24, 2016
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Boston’s Debo Band expand their heterophonnic horizons on Ere Gobez.

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Music Review: New Orleans, Tradition, and Mingling the Trashy and the Transcendent

May 5, 2016
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But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.

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Fuse Feature: Best Live Music Shows of 2015 — As Well as Some Disappointments

January 5, 2016
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The magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.

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Music Feature: Joyce Moreno at Berklee

December 17, 2015
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When she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”

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Fuse Music Preview: Joyce Moreno Meets Berklee

December 10, 2015
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Iconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno.

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World Music Feature: Libana Marks 35 Years of Musical Exploration

November 5, 2015
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“They are seekers, like we are, and they connect with the music that we play.”

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Music Feature: Jackie Greene Talks About Going “Back to Birth”

September 13, 2015
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Singer-songwriter Jackie Greene’s new tunes are comfortable without being lazy — this is a musician who flourishes in a more relaxed environment.

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World Music CD Review: Globetrotting Musician Stephan Micus — “Smartly Sublime”

September 3, 2015
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Claims that Stephan Micus erases international boundaries and makes one-world music get it backward. You visit his world on his records.

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