The Estonian diatonic accordion (lõõtspill) has four rows of keys and can play only in major. Tarmo Noormaa studied it...
Interviews
Olivier Araste does not travel light. Moving an eight-piece maloya ensemble from Réunion to the French mainland is its own...
Katariina Tirmaste was teaching at a traditional music camp in Estonia five years ago when one of her students, Kärt...
A Bakhshi or an Ashiq, in the old Iranian tradition, walks from village to village with a saz across his...
The ka drum holds the centre of gwo ka practice in Guadeloupe: one player leads, the circle answers, and the...
Six years into Zenobia, Isam Elias needed another way to keep working. The practical reality of touring an electronic duo...
When James Allen travelled to Kenya with his in-laws for their 50th anniversary, he was not expecting to have his...
In 2021, Andrea Cota pressed record on a portable recorder somewhere on Lake Titicaca, among the floating reed islands of...
A few days before Başka Bahar / Another Spring came out, Umut Adan was speaking to us from Istanbul about...
Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be...