From Hampshire and now based in London, Marika Hackman is a young Folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Closely associated with Laura Marling with whom she has toured extensively and with Alt-J producer Charlie Andrew, the singer has already released four EPs and several self-directed videos in 2013 and 2014. Out ... [Continue Reading]
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Fox Capture Plan: Butterfly
Formed in Tokyo in 2011 by three musicians already active in three separate bands - Ryo Kishimoto on piano (Jabberloop), Hidehiro Kawai (Immigrant's bossa band) on double bass and Tsukasa Inoue (Nhhmbase) on drums - Fox Capture Plan is a young trio playing an exuberant and infectious brand of contemporary jazz influenced by ... [Continue Reading]
Songhoy Blues: Music in Exile
Influenced by desert blues legends like Ali Farka Touré (1939 - 2006) or Khaira Arby and growing up listening to tapes of BB King, John Lee Hooker or Jimi Hendrix, the four members of Malian band Songhoy Blues play a raw and energetic mix of blues, rock and R&B on a straightforward guitars, bass and drums formula. Released ... [Continue Reading]
Anaïs Mitchell: Why we build the wall
Released in 2010, American singer songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown is a modern retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Introduced as a “folk opera”, the concept album began life as a stage production which premiered in 2006 in Mitchell’s home state of Vermont. Influenced by the plays and operas of Berthold Brecht ... [Continue Reading]
Hurray for the Riff Raff: St. Roch Blues
Originally from the Bronx in New York, singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra left home at the age of 17 to travel westwards across America before settling in New Orleans. Perfecting her craft busking and singing with various bands while immersed in a city rebuilding itself in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Alynda Lee Segarra ... [Continue Reading]
Zoë Keating: Escape artist
“One-woman avant-garde orchestra” Zoë Keating is a classically trained cellist and electronic artist born in Ontario and now based in California. Exploiting all the melodic, rhythmic and even percussive potential of the cello, the musician also integrates live samples of her own sound with a laptop and a loop station to generate ... [Continue Reading]
Jeanne Balibar & Rodolphe Burger: Le tour du monde
Jeanne Balibar (b. 1968) is a French stage actress who has also featured in over 40 art house and independent films by directors such as Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas or Arnaud Desplechin since the beginning of the 1990s. A chance meeting with musician and singer Rodolphe Burger in 1999 sparked the start of a fruitful musical ... [Continue Reading]