World Listening Post publishes album reviews that showcase music from around the globe. The site encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional music styles and encourages readers and listeners to go beyond their own comfort zones by crossing national and linguistic frontiers. You can access reviews, starting with the most recent, by scrolling down the left-hand column of this page; with the index (alphabetical by artist); or by country and language in the right-hand column.
Aguamadera: Las historias que han dejado

Aguamadera: Las historias que han dejado

Spanish Steps Listening Post 347. Walk from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego singing in Spanish and everyone along the route will understand the lyrics, the 10,800 km (6,700 miles) between the two points constituting the longest more-or-less straight line in the world you...

Delfina Cheb: Doce Milongas de Amor y un Tango Desesperado

Delfina Cheb: Doce Milongas de Amor y un Tango Desesperado

Sterling Voice from a Silver Land Listening Post 295. The heart exerts its own form of gravity: The farther it travels, the more it feels the tug of home. When 18-year-old Delfina Cheb arrived at Boston’s Berklee College of Music she recalls drinking in the global...

Che Apalache: Rearrange My Heart

Che Apalache: Rearrange My Heart

B.A. in Bluegrass Listening Post 255. Joe Troop doesn’t so much play fusion as embody it: Since his North Carolina childhood, every sound he ever heard seems to have become part of his music personality. At 14 he was inspired when he saw Doc Watson perform, but as...

Che Sudaka: Almas Rebeldes

Che Sudaka: Almas Rebeldes

Street Smart Listening Post 166. They began in struggle, illegal immigrants from Colombia and Argentina playing their music on the streets of Barcelona. Fifteen years later, Che Sudaka has performed more than 1,500 shows in 45 countries, etching a profile as...

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