Katariina Tirmaste was teaching at a traditional music camp in Estonia five years ago when one of her students, Kärt...
Interviews
A Bakhshi or an Ashiq, in the old Iranian tradition, walks from village to village with a saz across 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...
Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at...
Nusantara Beat didn’t form around a manifesto. It began with a shared sense of curiosity: six musicians in Amsterdam reaching...
Being used to seeing João Selva with the usual traces of touring life, we noticed straight away that WOMEX in...
Populous conjures landscapes from sound. That instinct was already present in Quipo (2002), the debut by Lecce-born producer Andrea Mangia...
In 2014, Martha “Martica” Galarraga and Eliene Castillo crossed paths in Montpellier. Both were Cuban, both were singers, and both...