ASPEN – Tablas, banjos and hyper-accordions do not usually appear on programs at the Aspen Music Festival, but what a refreshing and dazzling change of pace they provided this week. The sheer ...

IT WOULD SEEM that the late ’50s were my wild years as far as my choice of music. Don’t get me wrong, I was still a rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm-and-blues type of person, but when I was at home alone, my ...

Natural Causes, the guitarist's new album, features longtime friend and collaborator Marc Anderson. Anderson plays gongs, steel drums and exotic... The Exotic Sound Of Steve Tibbetts The Exotic Sound ...

The Fakir; Cherry Blossoms; Borneo; Tokyo Blues; Song Of The Yellow River; Sahib; China Nights (Shina No Yoru) Version No 1; Almond Tree; Hot Sake; Ben Hur; Davito; On Green Dolphin Street; Pauntetos ...

The press release accompanying the latest Martin Denny reissue poses the rhetorical question, "Martin Denny—The Father Of Trip Hop?" But while it's true that if you set a beat to his music, you could ...

Samy Ben Redjeb’s Analog Africa is a Frankfurt-based record company that’s put out eight amazing albums. Each one draws on Samy Ben Redjeb’s Analog Africa is a Frankfurt-based record company that’s ...

Arthur Lyman's Exotic Sounds Reissued on Collectors' Choice Source: conqueroo February 19, 2008 View read count From Hawaiian sounds to Polynesian melodies, with side trips into jazz and Broadway, ...

When Tibbetts plays, he creates an exotic sound that conjures images of India. He tells Liane Hansen he went to a concert in St. Paul, Minn., by Indian performer Sultan Khan that had a huge impact on ...