Petraglia

What the World Needs Now Is Love may be titled after a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, but it as far away from that song musically as one can get and still remain popular music. On her alleged return to her country roots, Wynonna Judd cannot resist the temptation to allow many forms of pop and rock into her sound. But that's fine; just fine. On her first studio outing in three years, Judd turns in a performance that is consistent all the way through, and one that seamlessly blends that astonishing voice of hers with banjos, strings, electric guitars, mandolins, pedal steels, pianos, and lots of drums.

A caravan departing from Azerbaijan reaches the Eastern parts of the Anatolian peninsula , then the Aegean Sea and the shores of Tunisia and Southern Italy. Greek dances perfumed of Otoman sensuality fast , obsessive Rom rhythms, Klezmer tunes with Balkan perfumes . Taksim and traditional Kurdish music in which echoes Caucasus and Persian sounds.