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.
Sauljaljui: Vaivaik

Sauljaljui: Vaivaik

March 17, 2025

Round Trip Listening Post 386. Sauljaljui is a singer-songwriter-musician and a cultural icon of the Paiwan people, one of the indigenous Austronesian tribes living in Taiwan for 6,000 years before Chinese settlement began in the 17th century. She fashions songs from...

Alena Murang: Sky Songs

Alena Murang: Sky Songs

January 13, 2022

Looking Up Listening Post 333. The Earth doesn’t move beneath our feet but it does rotate, offering far flung lands with unique cultures a view of the same heavens. Perhaps this explains why Alena Murang’s songs evoke both the mystery of a faraway people and instant...

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