Spellbinding Music
Genre-bending & spine-tingling
Initiated in the summer of 2015 and featuring master musicians whose paths had never crossed before, Nordub is a mesmerising fusion project. Intersecting the steady Jamaican reggae and dub beats of Sly & Robbie with the Nordic electro jazz of trumpet player Nils Petter Molvær, guitar player Eivind Aarset and electronic …
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Originally formed in the late 1990s by two students from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, Alarm Will Sound is a 20 piece chamber orchestra dedicated to the performance of newly composed contemporary classical music. Ever since their initial formation in 1991, jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood (MMW) has …
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Born in Bahrain but based in London since the age of nine, Yazz Ahmed is a young jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer. Having already collaborated and recorded with a wide array of artists and bands to date - Radiohead, Lee “Scratch” Perry or These New Puritans to name a few - the musician has undertaken over the last …
Opening the record, Trio Da Kali’s balafon (a wooden xylophone), bass ngoni (a traditional lute) and vocals clearly transport the listener to West Africa. But the introduction of Kronos Quartet’s classical strings a minute into “Tita” triggers an unexpected yet uplifting musical shift, thus unveiling an extraordinary fusion …
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Formed in 2008 and based in Niš (Serbia), Eyot is a jazz band comprised of Dejan Ilijic (piano), Sladan Milenovic (guitar), Milos Vojvodic (drums) and Marko Stojiljkovic (bass). As a quartet, Eyot’s novel sound lies at the confluence of the acoustic jazz trio tradition and electric jazz-rock. Influenced of course by the many …
Spearheading the prolific and unique surge of Ethiopian popular music in the 1960s and 1970s, Ethiopian singer, arranger and pianist Girma Bèyènè is a legendary figure who enjoyed a scintillating early career with various formations and musicians. The political unrest in his native country forced the musician to emigrate to …
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