DE Ungewöhnliche neue Töne aus der Republik Altai! New Asia, das Ensemble um den Sänger und Instrumentalisten Dobrynya Satin, stammt aus dem südwestlichen Sibirien. Die Region grenzt an Kasachstan, China und die Mongolei. Ein Land der eiskalten Flüsse, der schneebedeckten Gipfel und der kargen Steppen, wie New Asia ihre Heimat beschreiben. Charakterisiert wird die Musik der...

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Luiz always had been close to a musical atmosphere. Listening to samba on the bars and streets of Brazil together with by his multicultural family: Japanese, Portuguese, Brazilian, Sicilian and Calabrese, mixing music and Cultures have been present in his nature since before he was even born. After long studies in three important schools in Brazil,...

From the beginning of the band's work, our idea is that the name of the album is not a set of songs and a story that ends with the release of a new album, but that it continues life and testifies to a certain philosophy, attitude and message of the band. Get Naked, we are still naked and honest as in the beginning. Nakedonia is still a state of mind and our fictional...

Mandingo afro rock Ibrahima Cissokho offers a unique and authentic groove with his kora. With one foot in the traditional world as a griot, the other in current musical trends with amplified rock and funky melodies, his unique way of playing the kora creates a new genre of mandingo music. Living in France since 2008 as a singer and a master player of the West African kora,...

Ritva Nero is a relatively new band on the Finnish music scene, formed in 2017. The music of the band could be described as Party metal folk. Lead instruments played in the band are Soprano Saxophone, Finnish Bagpipes and Nyckelharpa, complimented by a rock style Bass and metal music style Drums. Folk dance tunes are cleverly combined with the metal tradition of our time in...

Santa Diver was formed by jazz violinist Luca Kézdy and multiinstrumentalist/composer David Szesztay (on bass) in 2006. The third member of the trio, David Szegő joined in 2015 on drums. The three instruments and personality maintain a unique and original musical dimension which situated somewhere in the crossing of jazz, world and free music. There sound is determined by...

The Power Trio is a special one: it departs from the norm of jazz ensembles because, instead of a double bass, it includes the vibrant sound of a cello, which, in this case, is played by Martín Meléndez. This combination leads the audience to transit through fusions with diverse genres, with roots in diametrically opposed points of the planet. Meléndez was born in Moscow in...

DE Vedan Kolod nehmen uns in „The Tale Of Igor´s Campaign“ an die Hand und entführen uns in eine Welt voller unbekannter Klänge, fast vergessener mittelalterlicher Traditionen, aufregender Heldentaten und fast schon meditativer Stimmungen. Die Erzählung von Igors Feldzug ist ein anonymes episches Gedicht in altostslawischer Sprache. Es berichtet über den gescheiterten...

Das Jouhikko-Revival ist in Finnland in vollem Gange! Die jungen Folkmusiker des Landes besinnen sich zunehmend auf dieses urtümliche Instrument. Eine Jouhikko ist die traditionelle finnisch-karelische Leier, die mit dem Bogen gestrichen wird. In Finnland war sie nahezu in Vergessenheit geraten, da die Kastenzither Kantele seit vielen Jahren das Nationalinstrument ist. Ilkka...

DE Aufregende Töne aus dem ganz hohen Norden Europas! Das neue Bandprojekt Gájanas (übersetzt bedeutet dies „Echo“) kommt aus dem obersten Zipfel Finnlands, und zwar aus dem Dorf Inari-Utsjoki mit seinen knapp über 1.000 Einwohnern. Die meisten davon gehören zum Volk der Samen. Gájanas spielen „nordische Sámi-Ethno-Progressive-Sounds“, wie sie es selbst beschreiben. Der...