Category Archives: Musicians

INDIEGOGO Fundraising Campaign: globalFEST 2016 – Bringing the World’s Music to You

Join a bevy of world music fans, tastemakers, music professionals, journalists and more for a night of musical surprises at one of today’s most pioneering music festivals. Your ticket to the show is guaranteed through your contribution. As our main annual fundraiser, your support of globalFEST via Indiegogo plays a crucial role in our success each year.

This year’s groundbreaking 3-stage, 12-band world music festival on January 17 hits the historic Webster Hall in New York City and we’re especially excited about our outstanding line-up! As one of the most influential events in North America and the premier gateway for emerging and established artists from around the world, gF’s success stories continue to grow. Crowdfunding has made this possible.

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CD Review: Rana Santacruz (Mexico) using his multi-instrumental and lyrical talents to great storytelling effect

Rana SantacruzArtist: Rana Santacruz
Title: Por Ahí
Label: self-produced
Genre: influences as diverse as Mariachi music, classic Mexican cinema, American bluegrass, and post-punk

Laughing at funerals and playing music at the apocalypse: Rana Santacruz releases Por Ahí
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle

Por Ahi is the latest from eclectic – and eccentric – artist Rana Santacruz.

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Follow Up of NY’s Brass Band The RED BARAAT

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

RED BARAATRED BARAAT a unique (brass) band with a unique sound. A hardworking band for about 6 years.
Please watch the two videos below which will tell you visually the new musical developments of this band. This band could be a role model of “how to succeed in today’s music business.”

What’s so great about this band is that they are not afraid to experiment with new sounds and musicians. Not maintaining the status quo, repeating themselves but reinventing themselves. By doing so they may lose some fans who can’t accept the new musical changes, but this is something a band should never consider as a minus in their career.

It’s great to see one of my NY favorite drummer Chris Eddleton joining the RB. Continue reading →

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN: Music Docu Film – “FIRE MUSIC”… A HISTORY OF THE FREE JAZZ REVOLUTION

THE PROJECT

We need you to get involved! FIRE MUSIC, a documentary that tells the criminally ignored true history of the Free Jazz revolution, has been fully researched and has been shooting for over 4 years. Over 300 hours of footage has already been shot.

“Free Jazz is liberation, is the excitement of the new and now,” says Thurston Moore, executive producer of FIRE MUSIC. “It is with respect, passion and knowledge that Tom Surgal captures the significance of it. His work, like its subject, shines for the collective call of beauty and unity.”

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