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.
Tamar Ilana & Ventanas: Azadi

Tamar Ilana & Ventanas: Azadi

Windows and Mirrors Listening Post 385. Tamar Ilana’s fourth album is both an extraordinary weaving of musical strands and an improbable blender of historical forces born in coercion. The album’s deepest musical root is Flamenco—the art form nurtured by Spain’s...

Subhi: Shaitaan Dil

Subhi: Shaitaan Dil

Subcontinental Jazz Listening Post 165. Wall Street, Broadway, Bollywood… Legions of aspirants would give anything to work in just one of the places Subhi Khanna passed through on her winding road—from India to America, through finance, journalism and music—pursuing...

Ghazalaw

Ghazalaw

Entwined Affinities Listening Post 24. Gwyneth Glyn sings and writes Welsh folk music. Tauseef Akhtar is a singer-composer from Mumbai and master of Indian ghazal, a traditional form of love poetry. Neither is the sort to compromise cultural integrity; nonetheless,...

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