Gypsy Hill have taken about four years to publish their first LP, but that’s because they like to do things right and properly! And if you were present at Our Routes launch party in one of Dalston’s most vibrant venues you’d understand why. Gypsy Hill are a rising phenomenon of...
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If Aar Maanta’s community in the UK had had their way, the artist who is today considered to be the voice of the new Somali generation should have become a scientist. The fact that instead he is revered as one of the most important musicians of the Horn of Africa...
Our Interview with the charming Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat sisters, they discus the struggles of female musicians in Iran and how they share this through the poetry of the great Persian poets such as Hafiz and Rumi
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To understand 숨[su:m] you have to understand their music. On the one hand 숨[su:m] is one of the most forward-looking embodiments of traditional South Korean culture. On the other they are a breath of life, gentle and delicate, able to clear and brighten up the inner weather of a mind....
Centuries ago when the first Mandikas held the first examples of the kora and the Gaelic Welsh bards embraced the harp, they had arguably never heard of each other. Today, to meet two heirs of these traditions playing side by side with such harmony and synergy is one of the...
47SOUL formed of four inspired Palestinian musicians that span the divides from Amman to Ramallah and Beirut to the Galilee. Defiant of regional borders they travel taking their futuristic Palestinian wedding music on their 2nd UK summer tour. Members El Far3i (Singer, Darbouka/percussion), Z The People (Singer, Keys, Electronics), Walaa...
There are instruments that seem to have been separated at birth. Despite their distant homelands and their different appearances, they speak the same language, and awaken similar feelings. The harp and the kora are one of the best examples of this instrumental kinship, which enables distant cultures to relate without...
When you meet their dark, deep and imperturbable gazes for the first time, you can’t avoid locking your eyes with them; to stare, wordless, at them. Their expressive eyeballs are able to narrate a story which not even an in-depth one hour interview can disclose. They tell a story that...
There is a spiritual bond between the waters of the Mississippi and that of the river Niger. It is a bond which goes upstream and back to centuries ago, until the slave trade and the African diaspora. That is an inseparable connection, which also mirrors the roots and the growth...
