Articles by David Dacks

Various

Pomegranates

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2010

It would be pretty easy to mega-mix this label's entire catalogue. On every release, whether from Pakistan, Korea, Turkey or Iran, as is th...

Christine Duncan and the Element Choir

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

Christine Duncan works magic with the voice, either on her own or in a collective setting. Possessing a five-octave range, she navigates op...

Sharon Jones Keeps It Real

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2010

"Thank you for even wanting to interview me." With those words soul queen Sharon Jones can melt even the most hardened heart of a music jou...

Quadron

Quadron

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

As half of underrated duo Owusu and Hannibal, Robin Hannibal turned heads four years ago with his reserved, yet futuristic, soulful product...

Influential World Music DJ Charlie Gillett Dies at 68

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2010

One of the staunchest advocates of the concept of world music has passed away. Broadcaster, music publisher and CD compiler Charlie Gillet...

John Heartsman and Circles

Music Of My Heart

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2010

Heartsman was a consummate journeyman musician of a type that just doesn't exist anymore. The liner notes tell of his hundreds of R&B sessi...

Glen Hall and Glen Charles Halls

Northern Dialogues

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2010

Bear with me, this could get confusing; I'm 99-percent sure this duet is the result of a hypothetical "what if?" pairing of the two similar...

Las Rubias Del Norte

"Porque Te Vas"

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2010

TRACK OF THE DAY: I know this band won't want to hear this, but it's hard to ignore comparisons with Linda Ronstadt's Mexican songbook in d...