Category: Folk
Arooj Aftab: Night Reign
In the wake of two independent ambient experimental electronic projects (Bird under Water in 2015 and Siren Islands in 2018), Pakistani American singer-songwriter and composer Arooj Aftab emerged on the international stage in 2021 with the incredible Vulture Prince. The ambitious project embracing Hindustani classical…
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Dost 1 & 2
Over the last decade or so, Anatolian psychedelic rock has been enjoying a phenomenal revival both in Turkey with artists like Gaye Su Akyol and further afield. Spurred by members of the Turkish diaspora, London-based fusion duo Kit Sebastian, Satellites from Israel or the formidable…
Cinder Well: Cadence
Born in California and now sharing her time between her native homeland and County Clare in Ireland, Amelia Baker is a singer songwriter who started her career as a member of Santa Cruz-based folk-punk band Blackbird Raum. She launched her solo career in 2015 as…
ØXN: CYRM
Comprised of Radie Peat on vocals, keyboards and guitar, Katie Kim on vocals and piano, John “Spud” Murphy on vocals and bass and Eleanor Myler on vocals and drums, ØXN is the first new act in eighteen years to record for historical Irish traditional music…
Shana Cleveland: Manzanita
A Michigan native now based in rural Northern California, Shana Cleveland is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist. A founding member and lead vocalist of all-woman surf rock band La Luz with whom she has released five albums to date for the Seattle-based Hardly Art…
Naujawanan Baidar: Khedmat Be Khalq
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…
Rogê: Curyman
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…
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…