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

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...

Maya Kamaty: Pandiyé

Maya Kamaty: Pandiyé

Don’t Mind the Gap Listening Post 219. Maloya and the Creole of her native Réunion were the chosen causes of Maya Pounia’s musician father and storyteller mother—activists in the movement to preserve a music heritage long suppressed and a language long marginalized....

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