Sinan Cem Eroğlu
"Sinan Cem Eroglu is some of the best instrumentalist and the first modern virtuoso of kaval in today's Turkish Folk Music..." - Songlines Magazine - Francesco Martinelli
"There is no doubt that Eroglu performs in all roles with a significant degree of skill that may be considered prodigious." - Songlines Magazine - Michael Galea
Kombilesa Mi: Hailing from Palenque, the first free black town in the Americas.
Kombilesa Mi is a unique ensemble-preserving their cultural heritage while creating original hip hop music. Much in the vein of hip hop culture in the USA, Kombilesa Mi has created a strong identity and community, using hip hop to teach their native palenquero language and cultural heritage.
Homayoun Sakhi: The most innovative Afghan Rhubâb player of his generation.
Homayoun’s personal story illustrates the extraordinarily challenging conditions he endured in pursuing his art. During Afghanistan’s, many years of armed conflict, when music was controlled, censored, and finally, banned altogether, the classical rhubâb style to which he had devoted his career not only survived but reached new creative heights. His performance style has been shaped not only by the musical traditions to which Afghan music is geographically and historically linked, but by his lively interest in contemporary music from around the world.
Lucas Santtana: A redefinition of Música Popular Brasileira.
For over two decades, Lucas Santtana has been exploring the abundant sonic possibilities to be found in the interstices between afro-dub, ska, tropicana, psychedelic samba and baile funk in a string of influential albums that have helped redefine Música Popular Brasileira.
Tolgahan Çoğulu & Sinan Ayyıldız Duo
The virtuosic pairing of Tolgahan Çoğulu & Sinan Ayyıldız Duo was formed in 2013 and scored a YouTube hit that year with their arrangement for Aziza Mustafa Zadeh's song, Boomerang. Since then they have performed at numerous festivals and venues across Europe.
Dongyang Gozupa
Dongyang Gozupa is an innovative South Korean group that performs a remarkable mix of instrumental progressive rock band and Gugak (traditional Korean music). The trio uses yanggeum (Korean hammered dulcimer), bass and percussion to develop intense and colorful music.
Miroca Paris: Island Rhythm Innovator
Singer, percussionist, drummer, guitarist
For over two decades Miroca brilliantly adds layers and color, beats, rhythmic backbone, nuance and custom details, excelling alongside international artists like Chico Cesar, fadista Cuca Rosetta, Tito Paris, Bana, Mariza, Sara Tavares, Zizi Possi, ft Angélique Kidjo, Bitori & Chando Graciosa, Nancy Vieira, Bonga, Rui Veloso, Tcheka, Camané, Aline Frazão, Bana, Boy Gê Mendes, Teófilo Chantre, Tito Paris, Cesaria Evora Orchestra and many others – plus, more recently – the Queen of Pop Madonna.
Mónika Lakatos
Mónika Lakatos is a Hungarian singer of Romani descent and lead singer/solo vocalist of the band Romengo. She became the first artist of Romani descent to receive the WOMEX Award in 2020. She was also rewarded with the Anna Lindh Prize in 2007, for the Parallel Culture Award in 2013 and in 2014 with the For Ethnic Minority Prize. Her first solo album Romanimo, which represents Hungarian Olah Gypsy hearers-ballads, was also among the top 10 albums of World Music Charts Europe. It hit the 4th place in February 2018 right after its release.
Aragaki Mutsumi: Okinawan Music for the 21st Century.
Aragaki has already built a reputation as a singer and sanshin player in her own right, not only around these islands but much further afield through explorations of her traditional Okinawan roots combined with avant-garde interpretations.
Photo: Toma Fumiya
Quetzal - music as community, cultural vitality, and transformation.
The Southern California band Quetzal recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a blowout concert that seemed to attract as many musicians as regular people. The band has maintained such a strong presence in the SoCal Chicano music scene that its members could be considered padrinos and padrinas of that free-flowing musical community.
Trad.Attack!: From Estonia to the World.
Created in 2013 Trad.Attack! is an Estonian band who has turned Estonian music market upside down by bringing traditional music and long vanished village voices to big stages, first covers of the magazines and becoming a source of inspiration for the young generation in Estonia.
Opium Moon
The four musicians of Opium Moon are a global intersection of powerhouse talent who work together with spontaneity and intuition, forging an exotic, richly articulated sonic journey that conjures ancestral pasts but uplifts and inspires with contemporary rhythms and rhapsodic melodies, masterfully performed.
KOSY: Gorgeous Interpretations of traditional music from Lower Silesia in Southwest Poland
Four intriguing female voices connected in songs from Lower Silesia Region (Poland), where their life paths crossed.
Rumba DB: Congolese Rumba & Soukous
Congolese Rumba Soukous Collective based in the PNW/Seattle. Veteran Musicians of some of the best Congolese stars in the world.
Zikr Project: Sufi tradition & trance rhythms
Dunya, the second release from Jef Stott and Mah Ze Tar is a deep sonic invocation of all that is sacred within the Earthly realms. Medicine music for the modern mystic.
The cry of the ney flute and plaintive vocals from Mah Ze Tar are supported by deep ceremonial frame drum rhythms and lush soundscapes to create the perfect soundtrack for medicine journeys that honor the Earth.
The Klezmatics: Virtuosic Jewish Music to lift the Soul & open the Heart.
Since their emergence, the Klezmatics, often called a “Jewish roots band,” have led a popular revival of this ages-old, nearly forgotten art form that, in its first incarnations, flourished at Jewish weddings and other joyous occasions. They have performed in more than 20 countries and released 11 albums to date—most recently the album Apikorsim (Heretics), produced by Danny Blume (who helped the band win a Grammy in 2006) and the first of the band’s albums to feature only the 6 members. They have also recently served as the subject of a feature-length documentary film, The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground.
Bab L’ Bluz: New Frontiers in Gnawa Music
Bab L’ Bluz are reclaiming the blues for North Africa. Fronted by an African-Moroccan woman in a traditionally male role, the band are devoted to a revolution in attitude which dovetails with Morocco’s ‘nayda’ youth movement – a new wave of artists and musicians taking their cues from local heritage, singing words of freedom in the Moroccan-Arabic dialect of darija.
Guy Buttery
Guy’s fascination and love for India’s musical wonders and myriad landscapes are deep rooted and go back to his first brush with the subcontinent when he was just twenty-one. Talking about the synchronicities of his first encounter with Amjad and Mudassir and the unexpected studio session that followed to create this album, Guy explains the importance of that first trip, “I don’t believe any of my prior or subsequent travels have impacted and shaped me as much as that trip did. I came back a vegetarian, 10 kgs lighter, with a severe case of lockjaw and a deep love for a land, its people and its intoxicating music.”
Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo
In Guantánamo, Cuba, changüí means party. The very word changüí is derived from the Congolese word for party and it’s easy to hear why: This living musical tradition is a joyful bundle of hooks, riffs and foot-stomping choruses played for the sole purpose of celebration, togetherness and inclusivity.
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Mélisande [électrotrad]
Mélisande [électrotrad] is a Canadian folk music group, who perform a contemporary spin on traditional Québécois folk music