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Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of Enna, where folk tales, village poetry and family memories still shape how people speak to one another. Her latest EP A Ccu Apparteni?, released in 2024 by Mhodí Music Company, takes that local world and rewrites it from the vantage point of a migrant who has spent nine years in England, asking what remains when a person carries one culture […]...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be built locally. The first edition of Riga Music Week offered a neat marker of how far they have travelled since then. On the festival’s cold, wet November opening night they set alight the Outdoor Folk stage, driving Hungarian Romani tunes and Balkan folk songs through Latvian lyrics at near-punk speed until a crowd that had arrived hunched in raincoats and […]...
AMARI is a young archipelago of rural artist residencies that has recently emerged in the Mediterranean Sea: Meraki Testa Dell’Acqua near Noto in Sicily, The Open Nest in Vavla, Cyprus, and Stonefish on Vis Island, Croatia. Co-founded in 2025 by a working group driven by Mark Dieler, Lefteris Moumtzis, Yves Taquet, Liese Kignma and Lena Ingwersen, the network first took shape among creatives and practitioners from Cyprus, Croatia, Italy, Tunisia, Palestine, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Latvia, the UK and Greece. […]...
Bad Bunny – Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) / 5 January 2025 / STREAM Bad Bunny’s sixth solo album puts plena, bomba, jíbaro song and salsa at the center, using reggaeton and house as supporting structure rather than the other way around. He writes about Act 60 tax breaks, blackouts, migration and daily life under U.S. rule, linking block parties and kitchen-table scenes to colonial pressure without falling into slogans. Los Pleneros de la Cresta, Dei V, RaiNao and […]...
Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at the centre of OOPUS, the duo of Johanne Ahun and Mari Meentalo, who spent years occupying a space that did not officially exist in Estonia’s music ecosystem. Electronic music events booked DJs. Folk music festivals booked acoustic ensembles. A project combining both fell through the gap. So they built their own platform, named it Folktronica, and started programming stages where artists […]...
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