We spoke to Amira Kheir about life, origins, destinations and love. Her debut album View from Somewhere is a stunning set infused with many influences but anchored in the sounds and identity of her parents’ homeland Sudan.
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Posts tagged Italy
We love both previous editions of Next Stop…Soweto as both are totally brilliant and so different whilst the third in the series is just as good, if not the best of the lot!
So we finally come to the last in this Disco Discharge set and perhaps Gay Disco & Hi NRG is the epitomy of the three previous versions rather than a genre inself; but if it is, it’s time of come out of the disco closet.
If the question is in the title, UMEK? The answer is in the name of the label, Hell Yeah! Once again, the pride of Italy introduces us to another expert in dance floor excellence via the mixing and selection abilities of techno icon UMEK.
Miriam was one of the 20th Century’s most extraordinary women. A musical giant, a campaigner and someone whose life was inextricably linked to the fight against Apartheid and for the civil rights movement and African liberation
Hieroglyphic Being’s The Bathroom Sessions was a very exclusive release on CD earlier in the year but here’s three selections on beautiful vinyl to help celebrate
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Shawn Lee’s success as a musician has taken him all over the planet and in an effort to reduce his carbon footprint, he’s been hard at work in his studio to bring us 21 tracks that cover miles of different styles; ideal for global music appreciation.
Continue reading Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra – Miles Of Styles
And things at Impossible Ark Records are very good indeed with this album, Example Of Twelves’ second release to date — keeping that modal spirit alive
There was some great stuff on Great Stuff last year but 2007 has started even better. Hectic gets head honcho Rainer Weichhold to explain why their stuff is so great, the relationships with their sub-labels and how they are getting back to their roots.
The ngoni, the small plucked lute said to be a forerunner of the banjo is most often found taking a support rôle to the guitar or kora. But it wasn’t always thus, and the world’s leading exponent has just released a new album that aims to bring the instrument — and the Bamana tradition from which it hails — firmly back centre stage
Continue reading Bassekou Kouyate – Blue Like a River to a Desert
Dusty Kid’s new EP is packed full of bouncy, jazzy techno joy
Seth Lakeman has come a long way since his first taste of the West Country’s folk clubs as a young child but twenty years on he is clearly a musician who doesn’t like to be away from home for long.
