Artist Profiles: Ifang Bondi
For more than twenty years the Gambian roots band Ifang Bondi (‘be yourself’) had a leading role within West African popular music. It was one…
Chinese Buddhist Music from Beijing Zhi Hua Temple
Bao Jian, Jian Bing and Gao Hong – Chinese Buddhist Temple Music (ARC Music, 2018) Three virtuoso Chinese musicians, performing traditional musical instruments, deliver a…
Artist Profiles: Dembo Jobarteh
Dembo Jobarteh was a member of a well know jeli family (known as Jobarteh in Gambia and Diabate in Mali). His father played the kora…
Lantiàs by Elena Ledda Wins the Città di Loano Award for Italian Traditional Music
Acclaimed Sardinian vocalist Elena Ledda’s album Lantiàs (S’Ard Music) has won the the National City of Loano Award for Traditional Italian Music for the Best…
Artist Profiles: Amadu Bansang Jobarteh
Amadu Bansang Jobarteh (kora, voice) was a jali: an oral historian and hereditary praise singer from among the Mandinka people of Gambia, West Africa. Amadu’s…
Artist Profiles: Thierry Robin
Thierry “Titi” Robin was born August 26, 1957 in Rochefort Sur Loire, France. Titi Robin is a self-taught musician. He built his personal musical universe…
Artist Profiles: Soig Siberil
Soig Siberil was born February 1, 1955 in Paris, France. He is a name that keeps coming up in the Breton folk music scene. After…
Artist Profiles: Slonovski Bal
Slonovski Bal plays the sounds of the central European Balkans, blending the music of the Gypsies with a unique mix of European, Slavic, Turkish and…
Artist Profiles: Skolvan
An essential act of the Breton revival for many years, Skolvan originally comprised five of Brittany’s most respected musicians, including guitarist Gilles le Bigot, percussionist…
Artist Profiles: Sergent García
Bruno García (a.k.a. Sergent García or Sargento García) was born in 1964 in France. He got started in 1997, by pure coincidence, on the eighth…