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.
Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band: Strømmen

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard Band: Strømmen

December 29, 2020

Water Music Listening Post 284. In poetry and prose, flowing water is a common metaphor for life and history, constancy and destiny. But there's nothing common about Strømmen (The Current), which meanders with calm majesty through timeless landscapes. Helene Blum and...

Zenobia: Blot en Ild

Zenobia: Blot en Ild

January 17, 2018

Eternal Flame Listening Post 133. Like campers kindling a fire with logs, twigs and dry leaves, the women of Zenobia stoke their music with every-life elements—joy and folly, love and sorrow, pride and prejudice. For their fourth album, Louise Støjberg (lead vocals),...

Helene Blum: Dråber af tid

Helene Blum: Dråber af tid

August 27, 2017

Defining Moments Listening Post 113. The great Jim Croce could only dream of capturing Time in a Bottle, but on her fifth solo album the Danish folksinger and songwriter Helene Blum succeeds in making the clock stand still. Each song on Dråber af tid (Droplets of...

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