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Ester Rada
Israeli actress and singer with Ethiopian roots, Ester Rada, grew up listening to the likes of Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin as well to the founder of Ethio-jazz Mulatu Astatke. It’s these Israeli and Ethiopian influences and her distinctive voice that have made her a new…
Poliça
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver told Rolling Stone that Poliça are the best band he’s ever heard. According to Rolling Stone, “the sound of heartbreak and celebration happens simultaneously” in their music and Q praises their debut as “bewitching, urgent, magical.” They…
Nederlands Dans Theater 2
“Nederlands Dans Theater is the best dance company currently dancing on this planet”, said about the Dutch company Nederlands Dans Theater Mário Radačovský, the former head of the Ballet Company of the Slovak National Theatre, who has cooperated with NDT in the past. The company…
Easy Star All-Stars
Easy Star All-Stars originally formed as a studio band for artists at New York based label Easy Star Records. Cover versions of famous albums of even more famous artists turned the side project into one of the label’s flagships. However, there is more to Easy Star All-Stars than just being…
It's Everyone Else
Ten days ago, at Ment Festival, we entered club Menza pri Koritu and were left speechless. Hardcore played on synths was streaming all over the place with the two-member band in a mosh pit under the stage. And those vocals! We knew we need to get this band. See for yourself – a bit of…
Kiran Leonard
When the Guardian likened him to artists like Ed Harcourt, Rufus Wainwright or Frank Zappa, and Pitchfork did the same to Joanne Newsom, Kiran Leonard was only 17. Laura Snapes of Pitchfork called his song “Dear Lincoln” the undoubtedly most refreshing song she had heard in the whole year…
Oratnitza
Forgotten folk melodies, Aboriginal motifs and orthodox chanting mixed with trap, hip-hop, dubstep or D'n'B. Band Oratnitza have enriched the traditional Bulgarian music with a contemporary sound. They make ancient harmonies, modern rhythms and timeless melodies with the use of didgeridoo,…
Hańba!
Punk did not arise in British clubs during the noisy seventies: it did in blue-collar suburbs of the Polish Krakow in interwar period! At least so claims the fiction used for the creation of Polish street rebels who perform under the name Hańba!. The band Hańba! was started by musicians with…
K-X-P
Finnish electro-rock band K-X-P name themselves as an anti band. Perhaps because of nontraditional lineup, where vocals, electronic stompboxes and bass are combined with two alternating drummers, or maybe because of a wide range of styles they draw inspiration from. Be that as it may, their live…
Sonido Gallo Negro
Sonido Gallo Negro is a Mexican band of 9 members playing Peruvian cumbia, which is cumbia mingled with other genres which you probably have not heard of yet (huayno, sonidero cumbia, and boogaloo). You can hear this unusual mix of spaghetti-western soundtracks, psychedelia, and surf music in early July…