This is the fifth annual survey in these pages of recent world-music releases, and musical boundaries have grown more amorphous than ever.
Rock does not so much influence other musics as colonize them, blurring musical boundaries.
Writing for the BBC, Chris Jones summed up the album by saying that it would not break any musical boundaries, but listeners will find music that was "intriguingly and, sometimes, maddeningly infectious".
The succession of utterly distinctive works Reich has composed in the last half century includes some of the most remarkable music of our time, their influence continues to cross continents and almost all musical boundaries.
His focus was inner human territory, not outer musical boundaries.
It's a blueprint that has crossed musical boundaries.
In a sense, deSol has already accomplished its goal, to break musical boundaries.
Trilok Gurtu, a percussionist from Bombay, likes to work where national and musical boundaries blur.
Unlike, for instance, Scott Walker, these boys never flirted with the dark side, stretched musical boundaries.
It was spontaneous and collaborative, suspicious of fashion, rules and musical boundaries.
Ultimately, Mr. Hanna said, his goal was the obliteration of musical boundaries.
