This year’s editions of Womex and Exib Musica have offered us plenty of beautiful little musical surprises. One of them, one of the most inspired and vivid ones, is Aguamadera, a project founded in 2015 by Argentinian Maria Cabral and Marco Grancelli re-discovering, making its own and re-interpreting the kaleidoscopic soul...
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The third episode of Rebel Passport features a journey to Bulgaria and the past, present and future of its music tradition. Little more than a month ago at Womex in Lisbon, together with our friends at Rebel Up, we had the pleasure to meet with and have a long and...
We teamed up with our friends at Rebel Up! to shine a light and have a chat with some of the protagonists of this year’s WOMEX Official Showcase Selection. Check out this space for daily shows featuring interviews, music picks and plenty of good vibes and tunes from Lisboa starting off...
We are almost there! On Wednesday, Womex will finally kick off its 2022 edition, so much so our Musical Road to Womex is reaching its very last stages. But before the Worldwide Music Expo will raise the curtain on its Lisbon stage, we still have two more stop-overs to close...
Only a few ensembles sum up the idea of a new Latin sound like La Brígida Orquesta. The Chilean big band (with a new EP, Antipoda, out via Aajabu!) which started to take shape in 2017 gathering musicians from (among the others) Conchalí Big Band, Mapocho Orchestra, Portavoz and Newen Afrobeat,...
The second leg of our Road to Womex brings us to South Africa, where we meet a talented and eclectic musician born and raised in Eastern Cape, who is dedicating her life and career to preserving, showcasing and bringing forward the local folk repertoire. Singer/songwriter, storyteller, activist, creative entrepreneur and...
The countdown has officially started… in two months’ time, the 2022 edition of Womex will get underway to spread the sounds, words and images of the world-music world throughout Lisbon. After a thoroughly successful experience in Porto last year, the Worldwide Music Expo is indeed going to be back to...
It’s only March, but we are already looking forward to October for another Womex! The 2022 edition, which is going to happen in Lisbon between the 19th and 23rd of October, has recently announced its legendary 7 Samurai who will form the Official Jury and start to define another amazing programme of showcases, DJ-sets, film screenings, conferences, mentoring...
Enjoy a live rendition of ‘Scura Maje’ by Italian folk singer Maria Mazzotta, recorded in Porto in October 2021 for WOMEX by MOON, a collection of 10 short films made by Vincent Moon during the 27th edition of the WOMEX. The song was the first single extracted from Amoreamaro (out via Agualoca...
If there’s a band which thoroughly embodies the engaged character and dedication of the new Colombian music wave, that must be La Perla. Rather than considering a strictly musical perspective, our focus lies on the social and environmental consciousness and militancy which the all-female trio formed by Diana Sanmiguel, Giovanna...
