The fRoots Critics Poll Albums Of The Year

Every year since 1986 (when the first winner was Paul Simon's Graceland) the magazine has polled experts in the UK and abroad to decide the Album Of The Year in those fields of music which it champions. With over 300 writers, broadcasters and activists now on the panel, it has become established internationally as the most extensively researched and prestigious annual poll of its kind, and when the BBC instigated their Awards For World Music in 2001, the fRoots Critics Poll was incorporated into them as the Album Of The Year.

2008 was quite a year for Istanbul based imprint, Doublemoon Records.

After the successful Biennale about India, which presented the subcontinent’s contemporary culture in May 2006,...

Mercan Dede continues his record of releasing chart-topping albums with his most recent release

Simon Broughton reviewed 800 cds and picked 10 recordings in different ways, stand out strongly for him in 2007

A change of mood with Turkey's Taksim Trio and their clarient, electro baglama and quanunlgor. Inspiring the audience to new sensorial heights, the virtuoso command of their instruments and subtle artistic sensitivity conjured up rich ambient mental images and emotions.

The World Music Expo (WOMEX) is a must-attend event on the calenders of music industry executives around the world. Part of its allure is the fact that it is a hotbed of talent, typically musicians successful in their native countries and ready to take their careers to an international audience. This year 52 artists hailing from 42 different countries were selected to perform by the Womex jury out of a competitive pool of 600 nominees—and Taksim Trio was Turkey’s representative!

Committed to their friendship, communicating through their instruments, master-instrumentalists and childhood friends Hüsnü Şenlendirici, İsmail Tunçbilek and Aytaç Doğan present the project they have dreamed about realizing for over a decade this fall. On September 26th Taksim Trio’s special edition CD & DVD album will hit music markets everywhere..