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.
Payadora Tango Ensemble: Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango

Payadora Tango Ensemble: Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango

May 21, 2023

Unbursting the Bubble Listening Post 371. Art that evokes the Holocaust works best not when it shocks but when it enlightens. The melancholy music of Silent Tears may sound familiar—and its setting might be recognizable if the stage hadn’t gone dark in 1939. In the...

Tara Fuki: Motyle

Tara Fuki: Motyle

October 5, 2021

The Bearable Lightness of Butterflies Listening Post 321. Virtually all Western music comes from the same 12-note scale, so maybe it shouldn’t be remarkable that Tara Fuki— Dorota Barová and Andrea Konstankiewicz—accomplishes so much with two voices and two cellos....

Sutari: Siostry Rzeki / River Sisters

Sutari: Siostry Rzeki / River Sisters

March 3, 2021

Nature’s Live Streaming Listening Post 292. Air, time, energy, life, blood, words, water: They all flow and they all play roles in the trances, mysteries, ancient rituals, sharp insights, drama and delight of Siostry Rzeki (River Sisters), the third album by the...

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