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Bab L’Bluz: Nayda!

October 7, 2020 By guillaume

Bab L’Bluz - Nayda! (2020)

Originally formed in 2017 as a duo, Maroccan-French band Bab L’ Bluz is now a four piece power quartet based in Marrakesh. Comprised of Yousra Mansour on lead vocals and guembri, Brice Bottin on guembri and electric guitar, Hafid Zouaoui on drums and Jérôme Bartolome on flute and percussions, Bab L’Bluz distil an exhilarating ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary Tagged With: Bab L Bluz, guembri, rock, songwriting

Birds on a Wire: Ramages

September 18, 2020 By guillaume

Birds on a Wire - Ramages (2020)

Sur la place où tout est tranquilleUne fille s'est mise à chanterOn the square, where everything is quietA girl has started singing Jacques Brel Franco-American singer songwriter Rosemary Standley and Brazilian-born singer and cellist Dominique Pinto (aka Dom La Nena) released their enchanting self-titled début Birds on a ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Traditional Tagged With: baroque, Birds on a Wire, cello, Dom la Nena, Rosemary Standley, songwriting

Nadah El Shazly: Ahwar

June 29, 2020 By guillaume

Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar (2017)

Based in Cairo, Nadah El Shazly is a young multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and electronic musician who debuted her singing career fronting a punk rock cover band. She has since collaborated with Egyptian artist Mohamed Shafiq as the Shorba Duo and started making a name for herself on the Cairo’s underground and ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary Tagged With: electronic, indie, Nadah El Shazly, saz, songwriting

Brigid Mae Power: Head Above The Water

June 17, 2020 By guillaume

Brigid Mae Power - Head Above the Water (2020)

Following a first self-release in 2014 and two magnificent solo studio albums to date for Tompkins Square, namely her self-titled début in 2016 and The Two Worlds (2018), Galway and now London-based Irish visual artist and singer songwriter Brigid Mae Power has been ploughing her own furrow as an individual voice on the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Ireland Tagged With: Brigid Mae Power, indie, songwriting

Inni-K: the hare & the line

May 19, 2020 By guillaume

Inni-K - the hare & the line (2019)

Born in Kildare and based in Dublin, Inni-K is an indie folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who also performs as a traditional Irish fiddler and singer under her own name Eithne Ní Chatháin - she released her first solo album titled Eithne in 2006. She was also part of Irish music group Ré alongside Hothouse Flowers ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Ireland Tagged With: indie, Inni-K, songwriting

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: There is no Other

March 3, 2020 By guillaume

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - There is no Other (2019)

From the beginning of our musical partnership we have been struck with the commonality of the human experience through music; how instruments, modes and the very functions of songs and tunes are universal from culture to culture. In 2017, singer songwriter, banjo and fiddle player Rhiannon Giddens released Freedom Highway, an ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: banjo, Francesco Turrisi, percussion, Rhiannon Giddens, songwriting

Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima

January 7, 2020 By guillaume

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima (2019)

A beautifully crafted project and concept album, Lux Prima is the brainchild of indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O and music producer Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse. With each piece identified by a different icon, the nine track song cycle on the theme of darkness and light, love and womanhood was conceived in ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary Tagged With: Danger Mouse, indie, Karen O, songwriting

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