Spellbinding Music
Genre-bending & spine-tingling
Born in Arizona and now based in The Netherlands, N.R. Safi is an Afghan-American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist who co-founded (as Nick Rayne) experimental psych-rock band The Myrrors. Coming across a stockpile of cassette tapes of 1970s Afghani music collected by his paternal grandfather sowed the seeds for Naujawanan …
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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 …
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 …
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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Born in New-York and based in New Orleans, folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla is the daughter of Haitian parents who emigrated to the US in the 1960s. In other words, Haiti and Haitian culture have always been a grounding presence throughout her discography to date. Her three previous solo albums …
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A folk singer, musician, author and composer from the Hardanger district in south-western Norway, Benedicte Maurseth is a leading exponent of the Hardanger solo fiddle tradition. Having studied the instrument with master musician Knut Hamre for the past thirty years - a continuing process - Benedicte Maurseth has since toured, …
