The sound of the tropics runs through Carter Burwell’s score to “Before Night Falls,” Julian Schnabel’s film about the ill-fated Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. And it was just that exoticism that ...

A lost, or at least under-recognized, pop music movement will be getting its due this spring. By Gary Graff A lost, or at least under-recognized, pop music movement will be getting its due this spring ...

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This week on Global Notes we'll spotlight keyboardist Lance Kaufman, an artist who pays homage to Korla Pandit, a man many considered the "Godfather of Exotica" music. In 1996 Kaufman released the ...

Deeper represent one of Sub Pop's most interesting rock-band signings of the 21st century, up there with Heron Oblivion, GOAT, and Morgan Delt—all of whom didn't sell that well, but that's the ...

Arthur Lyman, a Hawaiian vibraphonist who squawked, rattled, thumped, hooted and cawed his way to the top of the world of Polynesian mood music in the 1950s and early '60s, died on Feb. 24 in Honolulu ...

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