Tag: World music
Bonga, court life, voice from the heart
The Angolan singer Bonga returns with a 32nd album on the occasion of his 50-year career. A music punctuated by his joie de vivre, the memories of his thousand lives,…
#SessionLive Justin Adams and Mauro Durante
Still Moving (Ponderosa Music Records) celebrates the meeting between the producer, composer and guitar hero English Justin Adams and Mauro Durante, fervent violinist hero Italian, leader of the Canzoniere Grecanico…
#SessionLive Anne Paceo for the release of SHAMANES
Shamanism, definition: ancestral spiritual practice, present in all cultures of the world, where the human being, accompanied by his drum or his voice, presents himself as the intermediary between the…
Music: Startijenn brings rock (and rap) to life in Breton
Their name means ” energy » in the Breton language and the group Startijenn did not usurp its reputation. For twenty years, he has scoured the stages in France and…
Report in Norway at the 32nd edition of the Førde Festivalen (2/2)
“And the world came to Førde…”. It was in 1990 that Hilde Bjørkum created the Førde Festival or Førde Folk Music Festival, a small town of 12,000 inhabitants in western…
#SessionLive with Brisa Day Roché & Marnix Dorrestein aka IX
BRMD aka Brisa Roché & IX, an omnivorous musical duo inspired by 60s pop, 80s electronics and modern hip-hop. In 2007, the young Dutch teenager Marnix Dorrestein got his hands…
Report in Norway at the 32nd edition of Førde Festivalen (1/2)
It was in 1990 that Hilde Bjørkum created the Førde Festival or Førde Folk Music Festival, a small town of 12,000 inhabitants in western Norway, 50 minutes by plane from…
Report at the 23rd edition of Africajarc, the festival of African cultures
From July 21 to 24, the Africajarc festival celebrated its 23ᵉ edition, in Cajarc in the Lot, with Youssou Ndour and Keziah Jones headlining. Africajarc’s story During the summer of…
#SessionLive with An’Pagay – World Music
The idea of An’Pagay was born in the incubator of the classy trance-identity label bongo-joeon the occasion of a meeting for the recording of an anniversary compilation: the meeting between…
New Power Generation: Spirit of Prince
On July 20, 2022, the Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents welcomed a group whose fame owes much to its conductor, the late Prince Rogers Nelson, who passed away in April…