The Al-Kindi instrumental ensemble was founded in 1983 by French musician, musicologist and qanun virtuoso Julien Jâlal Eddine Weiss, who died prematurely in 2015. Along with his fellow musicians they made Al-Kindi one of the finest musical ensembles, known for the rigour of its work and the excellence of its interpretation of the Arab classical repertoire. For more than...

This new collaboration started by Dutch/Swiss baritone saxophonist Jeroen Visser and Ethiopian dancer and cultural ambassador Melaku Belay features nine musicians and dancers. Their album “GOJO” pays tribute to the golden age of the Ethio-jazz in many refreshing ways. Where the old recordings were played with western instruments, this release leans on traditional instruments...

Moonlight Benjamin the punky voodoo queen from Haiti. The Haitian singer turns to universal themes of freedom and change in her latest release. Prepare to be captivated as the haunting Haitian voodoo priestess lures you into her dark, rich netherworld her hypnotic grooves, muscular blues riffs & edgy production. Carried by a deeper and darker sound, and by the unique voice...

The Atse Tewodros Project ensemble is a collective of Italian and traditional Ethiopian musicians born from an idea of the Italian-Ethiopian leader Gabriella Ghermandi. It is a unique project in that it is the only Italo-Ethiopian band in existence. In 2022 Atse Tewodros Project released its second recording project 'Maqeda', the Ethiopian name for the Queen of Sheba, is...

From Mali to Benin and all the way to the Caribbean and New Orleans, backed by a dazzling orchestra of strings, skins and brass, the voice of a teenage genius explores the creole experience. For this pan-African journey between soul and Sahelian blues, Kala Jula has gone through a renewal, drinking from the sources of Benin's voodoo as much as from those of the jeliya, the...

For this project, Ilda Simonian has arranged twelve traditional Armenian songs composed by Soghomon Soghomonyan (1869-1936), also known as Komitas Vartabed, for a string quartet and recorded with the duduk (an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood) and voice. The album features joyful yet melancholic songs of homesickness. The arrangements and...

'Along the Silk Road' is a CD or an artwork book plus CD. It celebrates the 15-year long existence and equally long quest of the world music ensemble Osuna. In this project, three musicians and three musical traditions meet and create bridges in time and space. From Europe, across Asia all the way to China, in order to explore what kind of music Marco Polo might have heard...

'Along the Silk Road' is a CD or an artwork book plus CD. It celebrates the 15-year long existence and equally long quest of the world music ensemble Osuna. In this project, three musicians and three musical traditions meet and create bridges in time and space. From Europe, across Asia all the way to China, in order to explore what kind of music Marco Polo might have heard...

Combining the unfathomable Ethiopian musical tradition with a contemporary and libertarian reinterpretation, Ukandanz continues its work with this new opus. With as much subtlety the band delivers a new version of an Ethiopian crunch. The fundamental polyrhythms explode in contact with progressive rock, punk and the sonic experimentation of this pack welded together. The...

Solo is one of those great artists who made the golden age of Malian music and every time Solo picks up an instrument, sings or dances, a singular light shines on him. Life has not always been easy for Solo, but his briljant musical intuition has never failed him. For a long time, he was Salif Keita's percussionist and arranger on some of his albums. He has accompanied him...

Diese Aufnahmen, die François Jouffa und Susie Jung-hee Jouffa zwischen 1989 und 1998 vor Ort auf der Insel Koh Samui, der Perle des Golfs von Siam, gemacht haben, ermöglichen es uns, die authentische Musik dieses paradiesischen Ortes zu hören, bevor der Touristenansturm Anfang der 2000er Jahre einsetzte. Hier kann man eine unglaubliche Vielfalt an Instrumenten ,...

PoiL Ueda is the result of a collaboration between Junko Ueda, a vocalist and satsuma-biwa player from Japan, and PoiL, a French rock/contemporary music band. The creation is based on the 13th-century Japanese epic tale "Heike-Monogatari". The composition is based on traditional epic singing accompanied by the satsuma-biwa and Buddhist Shomyo chant. Fusing an ancient...