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The new album from the Jerusalem Quartet and soprano Hila Baggio brings back the sound and sensibility of a bygone time and place with skill and high spirits.

'The Odessa Job' from VulgarGrad is one of those albums which are a sheer delight to listen to from beginning to end with enthralling music and vocals.

Two worthy adaptation projects: inventive piano tangos from Skogstad and sweet violin interpretations of Charlie Chaplin's movie music from Quint

Great musicians often speak to us most sincerely when they put genre aside and write and play what's in their own distinctive hearts.

Together the musicians craft the feel of a much larger band, taking turns evoking the bandoneón through technique and imaginative force, and summoning orchestral depth by turns dark and brilliant.

'If I Had The Strength' is delightful, full of traditional textured tones, and compact, potent rhythms.

Part two of interview with Egyptian singer/songwriter and accordion player extraordinaire Youssra Hawary who is currently touring the US with her band.

Part one of two part interview with Egyptian singer songwriter Youssra El Hawary currently on tour in the United States.

'Liquid Lotus' is beautiful, a synthesis of harmonic imagination akin to an exchange between two diverse cultures and spiritual states.

The music integrates jazz idioms with South American dance and psychedelic synth-pop, forming a mixture that is both traditional and unique-sounding.