Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar’s debut album is an explosive mix of heavy Arabian grooves, global psychedelia and North African trance music. The band calls it "Arabian fuzz." Brazenly electric yet deeply connected to their roots, guests include Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) and Alsarah (Alsarah & The Nubatones). Mixed by Alain...

Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar’s debut album is an explosive mix of heavy Arabian grooves, global psychedelia and North African trance music. The band calls it "Arabian fuzz." Brazenly electric yet deeply connected to their roots, guests include Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) and Alsarah (Alsarah & The Nubatones). Mixed by Alain...

The 3rd album by Scottish singer-songwriter Mark Mulholland, ranging from breezy pop-rock, Celtic folk and jazz to reggae and psychedelic afro-beat, while always retaining the distinctive style that makes Mulholland’s songwriting unique. Recorded in Bamako, Paris, Berlin and New York, it features collaborations with many of the musicians he has worked with in recent years,...

The 3rd album by Scottish singer-songwriter Mark Mulholland, ranging from breezy pop-rock, Celtic folk and jazz to reggae and psychedelic afro-beat, while always retaining the distinctive style that makes Mulholland’s songwriting unique. Recorded in Bamako, Paris, Berlin and New York, it features collaborations with many of the musicians he has worked with in recent years,...

It has been a long-standing dream of Bori Fekete to stage some of the gems of Attila Jozsef's love poetry with prose interludes. There have been several biographical performances, musicals and monodramas about the poet, but the subject is inexhaustible. Poems, folk music and world music are close to Bori's heart. A combination of this forms the framework of the production,...

CD and 60 page book Anna Soregi's album is an essential condensation of the ideas, on the one hand, it touches on all important subjects of Szek music and culture in its editorial arc, shedding light on all corners, yet the album as a whole is reassuringly round and unified. Nothing of the sweet and heavy fullness of life is withheld: the awakening love and the trust that...

The atmosphere and music of their second album is more in-depth and philosophical than that of their previous one. It is at once thoughtful and conscious while incredibly free. Over the years an almost magical (emotional and musical) empathy has evolved between the musicians. In that blessed, creative climate it was easy to pour a time perpective into sound that is sometimes...

Agnes Herczku is a monumental figure of Hungarian folk music and world music, even though she is one of those performers who had never worked towards a career on stage. She began learning music at the age of seven, later on danced and learned folk dance as well. Her professional career as a singer started in 1996 parallel to dancing in the Honved Dance Company. Her natural...