Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Tev Stevig

  Jeni Jol: The Music of the Balkans, Greece and Turkey

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2013

  Tev Stevig has taken on a rather daunting task. How does a Berklee music grad fuse Balkan, Greek and Turkish instrumental music on a fretle...

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  Evan Parker & Joe McPhee

  What/If/They Both Could Fly

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2013

  Parker and McPhee are two of the elder statesmen of the itinerant free improvisation community, travelling the world as solo artists bearin...

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  Katayoun Goudarzi & Shujaat Husain Khan

  Spring

  PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2013

  This collection is a meeting of voice, a sitar ensemble and the words of Persian poet/mystic Rumi. Separately, each would invoke its elemen...

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  Various

  Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983

  PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2013

  Ever wonder what it'd be like to crisscross West Africa visiting record shops, digging in the crates for rare vinyl gems, hearing the stori...

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  William Winant

  Five American Percussion Pieces

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2013

  This is a wonderful collection of percussion solos by a master musician. William Winant's résumé careens from Sonic Youth to Roscoe Mitchel...

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  Arve Henriksen

  Places of Worship

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2013

  The debt to Miles Davis's ballad oeuvre is definitely on-point on this release by trumpet virtuoso Arve Henriksen, who winds his way throug...

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  Skadedyr

  Kongekrabbe

  PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2013

  Remember when there was a thing called a radio and this thing had a circular dial that could be spun freely and for fun? Just by spinning t...

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  Mas Aya

  Kairos

  PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2013

  Brandon Valdivia's musical journey tracks many trails: from free improvisation to indie rock, jazz to tribal. This particular entity spring...