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Katariina Tirmaste was teaching at a traditional music camp in Estonia five years ago when one of her students, Kärt Pihlap, ended up on stage beside her. “We just looked at each other. And then we played,” Pihlap says. “The chemistry or the listening was really good between us. And so it was like, oh, wow, experience.” They kept going after that. The two flutes became a project, and the project eventually pulled in a third element when they collaborated […]...
A Bakhshi or an Ashiq, in the old Iranian tradition, walks from village to village with a saz across his back, and when he stops to eat or sleep, he stops to tell a story. The stories travel further than he does. By the time he leaves a village they are already on their way to the next one, in the mouths of the people who heard him. Pouya Ehsaei and Tara Fatehi reached back to this tradition, more than […]...
In 2016, MANANA became Cuba’s first international electronic music festival, pairing contemporary club producers with Afro-Cuban folkloric musicians in Santiago de Cuba over two weeks of residency and performance. A decade on, the original team reunites for a one-off Bank Holiday takeover hosted by Jaminaround. The event takes place at the Cranborne Earthouse, a 250-capacity reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse at the Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset. Lit by fire and lamplight, it seats audiences on wooden benches beneath an earth […]...
Every Bandcamp Friday matters. Some matter more than others… This Friday, more than thirty-five independent record labels are turning theirs into a lifeline for Lebanon, a country where a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on 16 April but means very little on the ground. The Israeli military offensive that began in March has displaced over 1.2 million people, and strikes and exchanges of fire have continued throughout the truce, the IDF’s own chief of staff said this week that there […]...
Halfway through Wednesday’s set, Marlon Williams sent the Yarra Benders offstage and sat down at the piano alone. What followed was ‘Kāhore He Manu E‘, the tender Māori-language ballad that features Lorde on record, stripped to just his voice and the keys. He filled both parts himself. The room didn’t need anything else. That moment was the centre of a night London’s Kiwi expat community had been waiting for, and they weren’t the only ones. Williams is a singer-songwriter from […]...
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