Dubbed by Alsarah as “east African retro pop,” Alsarah & The Nubatones blend 1960s and 70s Ethiopian music with Arabic and North African influences to create a sound with soaring vocal melodies, eastern instruments, and pentatonic arrangements. A Sudanese born...
With a fresh, rich voice and a tight all-Cuban acoustic band, Adonis Puentes is earning a place in the list of great soneros – bandleader/singers whose vocal improvisations are the hallmarks of a Cuban son. Although he now lives in Canada, Puentes comments, “I feel...
Ancestors of Sara Pajunen and Teija Niku lived within hours of each other in western Finland – speaking the same language, playing the same music, living the same culture. In the late 19th-century, Pajunen’s ancestors emigrated to northern Minnesota; Niku’s family...