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Music was banned by the now toppled Taleban regime in Afghanistan. But throughout the years of the ban, harmonium player and singer Obaid Juvenda kept alive the traditions of Afghani music in
"Even when I am sleeping, I am playing on my chest with my fingers, sleeping and playing at the same time". For Odartey Lamptey, drumming is - and always has been - his life.
Odartey was born in
Nigerian storyteller Odiri Igahmre-Aiken's gift is translation: making African stories live and breathe the music and culture of Africa. She writes her own stories and uses tales from around the
Ohayo-Samba is a 7-piece band playing original songs written by founders, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Marcelo Andrade and Japanese singer/lyricist Hiroko Yamamoto.
Their music expresses shared
Oi-Va-Voi represent the cutting edge of new wave Klezmer.
Their unique sound infuses the traditional music of the Sephardi Jews, Transylvanian gypsies and the Ashkenazi shtetl with the dub and
For Necmi Cavli there is no distinction between politics and culture. "Music gives you power, but on its own, without context, it doesn't mean a thing." Driven by a belief, not in fusion, but in
Originally trained as a teacher in Havana, Osvaldo Chac'n, came to London in 1997 to form his own group and rapidly established himself as a leading exponent in the UK of the new and exciting sound
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