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Gangar | Dorisk Reinlender | Stubb | Norway's Gangar brings a fresh take on Nordic roots music. The young, five-piece ensemble digs deep into Norway's extensive folk music archives to come up with rare traditional tunes. -- and give them new, modern arrangements influenced by rock, folk-metal, and jazz improvisation. - Gangar | * | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Hoven Droven | Bjekkergauken | Jumping at the Cedar | Northside | Big influence on Gangar. | 0:05:44 (Pop-up) | |
Jamala | Noğay Beyitleri | Qirim | Album dedicated to Crimea, each song representing a different region. | * | 0:13:09 (Pop-up) | |
Kultur Shock | Zumbul | Acoustic at Seattle Town Hall | Active since 1996, Kultur Shock combines Balkan folk music with punk, metal and art rock. Its members hail from Bosnia, Bulgaria, and the United States. - Wiki | * | 0:14:36 (Pop-up) | |
Mircan Kaya | Osmanum | Ağitlar-Lamentations | UCM Productions | "Mircan Kaya is freed by her day job as an engineer to pursue her music with a singular vision. Her voice ranges from etheral to dutsy, through pain and joy, always true to some deep and wise river of sound that flows through her to our ears." - Smithsonian | 0:22:05 (Pop-up) | |
Duo Perse Inca | Epopee de Simorgh | Echos of the Mountains | Analekta | Showan Tavakol and Federico Tarazona, two musicians with deep roots in the rich traditions of Iran and Peru, met in Montreal and formed Duo Perse-Inca in 2018. They create a music that invokes a dialogue between two ancestral peoples, embodied by two of their iconic instruments, the Iranian kamancheh and the Andean charango. - Folk Alliance | 0:28:02 (Pop-up) | |
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio | DamiBa Gham | Intizar | Just Listen Records | "The interplay of Rembrandt Trio and Motamedi is totally natural. The jazz background and and extensive improvisation experience of the Dutch musicians fits the crucial role of improvisation in traditional Persian classical music." - Salt Peanuts | * | 0:36:57 (Pop-up) |
Driss El Maloumi | Tissit | Aswat | Driss El Maloumi is a Moroccan composer and performer on the oud, the Arabic short-necked lute. He is mainly known for playing solo or in trio formations under his own name, for his long-standing cooperation with Catalan musician and musical director Jordi Savall, as well as for being a member of the group 3MA, comprising three popular African string instrumentalists. - Wiki | * | 0:42:55 (Pop-up) | |
Theodoros Koumartzis | Almanecer | Pausis | Vocals by Ariana Vafadari. "Theodore Koumartzis has ventured into the establishment of world music act Pausis, with the mission of introducing the Ancient Greek lyre as a symbol of human heritage." - World Music Central | * | 0:46:12 (Pop-up) | |
Ayfer Düzdaş | Darî Ode | Kilomên Arxawûnê | "Istanbul-based musician, Ayfer Düzdaş, has spent 25 years traveling through southeastern Anatolian villages, documenting Kurdish folk songs. In a new album, she arranges vanishing melodies into full-ensemble pieces" - The World | * | 0:50:48 (Pop-up) | |
NK Güray's Baroque Miniatures | Sessiz | Sounds Of Cycle | Felmay | "This Cd was designed and performed to show how close the eastern and western worlds horizon, purged of their historical and cultural limits in a perspective that places human feelings at the centre, share a common cultural memory." - Bandcamp | * | 0:54:35 (Pop-up) |
Alam Khan, Arjun K. Verma, Jack Verma, Del Sol Quartet | Two Worlds | The Resonance Between | AMMP | "The Resonance Between presents a groundbreaking new level of fusion between these cultural genres, crafting a contemporary instrumental sound for this unique original work that is so much more than simply the sum of its parts." - bandcamp | * | 1:03:24 (Pop-up) |
Khiyo | Shona Bondhu Rey | Bondona | ARC Music | The band is named Khiyo after a letter of the Bengali alphabet. It is a unique letter that, whilst being a combination of two letters, has an identity of its own. Similarly, though the band members have backgrounds that include Western classical, rock, jazz, blues, Nazrul Sangeet, Bengali folk and Indian classical, the amalgamation of the whole has a singularly identifiable sound. - Khiyo | 1:08:48 (Pop-up) | |
Son Rompe Pera | El Saleroso | Batuco | Aya Records | GIG: Music Hall of Williamsburg, tonight | 1:15:38 (Pop-up) | |
DJ Click & Christine Salem | Malouwé (Akoustik) | Mon rési | No Fridge | Christine Salem is the greatest living champion of maloya, a nearly-extinct musical tradition rooted in the work songs and chants of Reunion island's African slaves. - France Rocks | * | 1:19:17 (Pop-up) |
Battle of Santiago | Chawada | Los Santos y Pecadores | Unfit Music | Saints and Sinners. "Informed by the esoteric culture and spirit of Santeria, this album retains the experimental broadness that Battle of Santiago is known for." | * | 1:22:23 (Pop-up) |
Nihiloxica | Olutobazzi | Source of Denial | Source of Denial is the second LP from Nihiloxica, the Bugandan techno outfit hailing from Kampala, Uganda. It comes after more than three long years since Kaloli, their acclaimed debut on Crammed Discs. The album points a (middle) finger at the hostile immigration and freedom of movement policies implemented in the UK, as well as across the world. - bandcamp | * | 1:25:17 (Pop-up) | |
Edgar Muzah | Nal'ibali (feat. Andy Ndlazilwana, Joliza) | Son Of A Tribe: Royalty Edition | Edgar “Eddiebass” Muzah is a Zimbabwean born bass player, Mbira player and music producer based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. - Cort Guitars | * | 1:34:23 (Pop-up) | |
Faratuben | Njumbari | Changement | Denmark / Malian band takes on the Bobo sound of Bamako. | * | 1:40:32 (Pop-up) | |
Santrofi | Suru Nipa (live) Feat. A.K. Yeboah, Omniversal Earkestra | Deep into Highlife | Outhere records | * | 1:44:38 (Pop-up) | |
Emilia Lajunen | Elias Leppänen | Vainaan perua: Satavuotinen sakka | * | 1:53:30 (Pop-up) |
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