Each month we dip into the fascinating blog of ethno-sampling mavericks Addictive TV and their global music project Orchestra of Samples. Recording and sampling musicians around the world, creating extraordinary new music, this post takes us to India in early 2022 recording with mandolin superstar U Rajesh. MANDOLIN IN SOUTHERN...
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Ayaan Ali Bangash and Amaan Ali Bangash are two Indian brothers and musicians from Delhi who represent the “seventh seventh generation of a musical lineage known as the Senia Bangash School. Disciples of their father the great sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan”. Despite being well-established classical musicians, their contemporary music...
…and now off to Belgium with Echoes of Zoo! The Musical Road to Womex we started to follow little more than a month ago brings us to Brussels today. In the Belgian capital, we meet the quartet founded by multi-instrumentalist and composer Nathan Daems. Together with Bart Vervaeck (guitarist), Lieven...
Ever since the festival relocated to the West Mid Showground in 2007, its varied global line-up has continued to grow. Released from the clutches of its traditional folk narrative, it brought forward the orthodox values of its folkie origins, the Shrewsbury Folk Festival has fostered a place for world and...
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Jaubi (“an urdu word roughly translating to whatever”) is a quartet from Lahore, Pakistan blending North Indian classical music with modal jazz and hip-hop. Satanic Nafs is their new single on Astigmatic Records and serves as a “teaser for Jaubi’s debut album entitled ‘Nafs At Peace’ which itself is a musical...
Today, London-based Bengali composer, producer and sarod player Soumik Datta launches Silent Spaces, a brand-new multimedia project shaped in collaboration with his brother, the Award-winning filmmaker Souvid Datta. Silent Spaces is a 6-part series of videos that “sees the brothers join a diverse team of British Asian, black and ethnic...