Category: Artist Profile
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Organic Techno — France’s Agoria Releases “Impermanence”
Agoria has created an album that is at the same time constantly changing while also having a unique flow and mood of its own. Sebastien Devaud, aka Agoria, entered the world of electronic dance music at a peculiar moment in time. Unlike the first generation of techno producers, he’s too young to have been actively…
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Azam Ali Sings Lullabies on “From Night to the Edge of Day”
Azam Ali’s From Night to the Edge of Day explores traditional lullabies of Iranian, Turkish, Lebanese, and Kurdish origin. And as Azam Ali’s decidedly “grown-up” treatment of them testifies, lullabies are not really just for children. They attempt to cope with difficult lives and the harshness and sorrow of the world, with loss, exile, and…
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Ebo Taylor — a True Great of Ghanaian Highlife Music
Ebo Taylor links with Strut Records for his first ever internationally released studio album and retrospective album During the 1950s and ’60s as Ghanaian highlife music exploded as big band highlife pioneers like E.T. Mensah and Ebo Taylor became a major figures. Cutting his teeth with leading big bands like Stargazers and Broadway Dance Band,…
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Banco de Gaia On “The Silk Road” (Free Songs)
The funky founding father of eclectic electronica releases two decades of hits, rarities, and remixes on Songs From the Silk Road Welcome to the strange, wonderful world of DJ/remixer/dance music maestro Banco de Gaia (aka Toby Marks) whose work sprang from the hopeful exuberance of British house, the joys of sampling, and the advent of…
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From Francois K to Eartha Kitt. The Afro-Latin Chillout With “Carlos Go Go” Gomez
The Body Ecstatic: Master Afro-Latin Percussionist and Ifa Priest Carlos “Go Go” Gomez’s Elevated Smooth Electronica Smooth Electronica artist and Latin percussionist Carlos “Go Go” Gomez is three things: master musician, priest, and martial artist. Now after decades as a sought-after rock, pop, and Latin player and as a spiritual seeker, he has found a…
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Funking It Up Berber Style With Hindi Zahra
If you’ve been hoping, wondering and waiting for a new female voice to sweep in, seduce and tantalize at the dawn of the new year, your wishes has been granted in Moroccan-born, Paris-based Hindi Zahra. This multi-talented and multi-cultural siren of Berber-soul writes infectious and hip songs that perfect spark of intimacy. Hindi’s spontaneous yet…
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Randy Weston’s African Rhythms
“The Storyteller”, in musical counterpoint to Weston’s African Rhythms memoir, rhythmically and melodically recounts an amazing career spanning nearly seven decades.
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