Grace far beyond my graspThe rest is silenceArooj Aftab - Last Night Based in the United States since 2005, Arooj Aftab is a Pakistani singer, composer, producer and audio engineer. Singing in Urdu, Arooj Aftab’s music is informed by Hindustani classical music and in particular the traditional ghazal poetic tradition as well ... [Continue Reading]
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Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum
Born in Kazakhstan and based in London, Galya Bisengalieva is a classically-trained violinist, composer and electronic musician. As the current leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, she has been involved in a series of high profile collaborations with musicians as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Suzanne ... [Continue Reading]
Wooden Elephant: Landscapes, Knives & Glue
As classical musicians, we just never get to play this repertoire, and we think it’s some of the best music ever written. Aoife Ní Bhriain Working as a session viola player with the London Contemporary Orchestra while touring Jonny Greenwood’s string music and recording Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, Scottish violist Ian ... [Continue Reading]
Sudan Archives/Sink
My strings propagate Through space and time Here and there At the same time Sudan Archives - Nont for Sale In October 2016, nearly a year prior to her first commercial release, Sudan Archives posted Queen Kunta on YouTube, a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”. The video clip sees the singer sitting in front of a loop ... [Continue Reading]
Poppy Ackroyd: Resolve
Everything is a form of vibration. One needs to hear it and transform it into music. The world is a piano and the piano is the world. The musician becomes the creator of the world. Jola Kudela Born in London and based in Brighton, Poppy Ackroyd is a classically-trained piano and violin player who started her career playing ... [Continue Reading]
Danish String Quartet: Last Leaf
Our guiding principle for choosing repertoire has always been pretty simple, we only perform music we like. Asbjørn Nørgaard Born in Denmark and now in their mid-thirties, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola) and Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello) originally met at a country summer camp for amateur musicians ... [Continue Reading]
Peter Broderick: All Together Again
Somewhat like the public letter-writers of the past, American artistic polymath Peter Broderick has adopted a similar role lately as a “public” musician, in addition to his creative work as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. “Ever since I started releasing records in 2007”, notes the musician, “people have ... [Continue Reading]