Already a veteran of the Música Popular Brasileira scene with nine albums released to date since his début in 1998 - either as a solo act, with a band or in collaboration with Arlindo Cruz or Seu Jorge - singer songwriter Roger José Cury aka Rogê is a leading figure of an infectious samba-funk style. Following a radical move …
Sofie Birch: Holotropica
Based in Copenhagen, Sofie Birch is a Danish sound artist and electronic ambient musician whose work embraces sound installations, soundtracks for animated shorts as well as improvised DJ sets. A regular contributor to NTS online radio station, Sofie Birch’s sets can also be heard at various electronic music festivals around the …
Dom la Nena: Leon
A classically-trained pianist, cellist and singer-songwriter, Dominique Pinto aka Dom la Nena was born in Porto Alegre in Brazil. Relocating to Paris at the age of eight, the young musician was gifted a cello to ease the traumatic move. Falling instantly in love with the instrument, Dom la Nena moved to Buenos Aires to study …
Snowdrops: Volutes
Formed in 2015 and based in Strasbourg, Snowdrops is a French chamber duo comprised of Christine Ott on piano and Ondes Martenot and Mathieu Gabry on piano and keyboards. Originally established to support various film and theatre soundtrack projects such as Thai filmmaker Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s Manta Ray, Snowdrops have …
Christine Ott: Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)
Christine Ott is a classically trained pianist, teacher and composer based in Strasbourg. Since the beginning of her career, she has also been instrumental in preserving and promoting the sound of the Ondes Martenot, the early electronic instrument introduced in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. A long-time collaborator of Yann Tiersen …
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Lisa O’Neill: All of This is Chance
There is the source from which all cultures rise,And all religions,There is the pool in which the poet dipsAnd the musician.Without the peasant base civilisation must die,Unless the clay is in the mouth the singer’s singing is useless.Patrick Kavanagh - The Great Hunger (1942) section XIII A striking voice on the …
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