Angus Martin: LINKS

Sharonkaye.net: Did a spot of accordions (button and piano) on Sharon's fine EP 'Over the Ocean' - a theme close to my heart... Wistfull and sweet with a touch of the New York gritties..
http://martatopferova.com: I met Marta at Bard College an eternity ago... We have been collaborating on and off ever since. A Bohemian born, consummate New Yorker whose European classical and folk melodies and harmonies meet the intricacies of afro-latin polyrhythms and styles.

Sweet smooth chillin' music...with an edge.
http://www.losacustilocos.com: Los Acustilocos was the brain child of Roberto Fuentes, songstylist extraordinaire, inveterate performer, and hyperbolically talented musician (cuatro, mandolin). Fuentes, from Venezuela, moved on and now plays in a trio ("Trio con Cuatro"), but his original co-conspirator and student, Kenny Kozol, joined by Josh Levine, Nene Quintana, and Ilan, kept Los Acustilocos alive, as a gigging band (Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall, private events...) and as an educational institution of sorts (focused on traditional Cuban music). Later arrivals have been Yulia Musayelyan, Marta Topferova, yours truly, Javier Diaz, and Jose Luis Martinez.
http://www.joshlevinemusic.com: Josh is a long-time collaborator, swingin' contrabassist, singer and songrwriter/arranger. Born and raised in Manhattan, he has also worked as a music educator at the Family Academy in Harlem, as well as with Los Acustilocos. Check out his site for sound clips of his upcoming children's album. Nice stuff....
http://www.yuliamusayelyan.com: "The little songbird of Moscow" And what a bird she is! The pronounced 'chops' inflicted ;) by Russian classical education and honed in New York, the depth of the Armenian soul, and the funky grittiness of immigrant america.

Check out her beautiful site and listen to some clips.
http://www.jennyscheinman.com: The wild fiddler of the fiddlehead fern, the matchless marvel of the Mattole valley sound.... I went to high school with Jenny, we jammed at a tender age....and now we tenderly age, eating jam.... No matter how you butter it, it is sweet.

She's what I have in common with Norah Jones....
http://www.ljova.com/: Lev is a dynamite violist, also from Russia, settled in Manhattan. From arranging classical repertoire to composing and performing folk, jazz, latin, experimental and his own form of "dada-blues", Lev does it all...with a smile. Check out his website, free music, lots of info.
http://www.nytangomusic.com: This is the site for David Hodges' trio "Los Chantas" A Texan living in Manhattan who plays a German church instrument which was adopted by Buenos Aires bar and bordello musicians, David and his bandoneon are a couple of rare breeds... The only thing more intricate than this story is the infamously complex instument itself. David plays regularly for Tango shows and dances throughout the city, and I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to have him and his unique instrument in the line-up, and to hear it played outside of the traditional Argentinian genres which the bandoneon is invariably associated with.
http://www.jumbierecords.com/press/kakande.html: Brian Glashow, who plays congas as well as the balafon on PRESQU'ILE, is the student of Famoro Dioubate, a member of a prominent Griot familly (storyteller/newsgiver-musicians of West Africa) from Guinee, and a versatile and talented percussionist. Kakande makes evocative, sophisticated and rhythmically rooted music, based around the balafon, a west-african diatonic marimba, with a distinctive rattle and satisfying woody chunkiness....
Brian and I also collaborate in an outfit called Joubala, which explores the juncture of afro-caribbean, african and latin (i.e. romance european) musics. This is Kakande's link, however.
http://www.sonamigos.com: Kenny Kozol, who plays kit drums (among other things) on Presqu'ile, started Son Amigos ("they are friends" SON is also the precursor of SALSA). A Latin Jew in the tradition of Larry Harlow and Moishe 'Momo' Lopez, Kozol has studied and taught Latin American, Hispanic and African Diaspora musical culture in general, as a teacher in Harlem, and with his Latin music education institution "Los Acustilocos". His regular gig is SON AMIGOS. Find out more about this smokin' little trio, which features guitarist and song-stylist Jose Luis Martinez, a founding member of the "Cuban Beatles" - Los VAN VAN.