For all you kids who don’t buy into the St. Valentine’s consumer festivities, here’s 2 love songs that you can enjoy. The first is by the mighty Baba Zula, who’s one of the handful of internationally notable artists coming out of Istanbul. It’s a shame I haven’t written about their new album, but let this [...]

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Based on well-known anonymous folk songs from the Turkish Black-Sea region, this album from ‘98 is one of the best Turkish folk & jazz fusion albums i’ve ever had the pleasure to check out.
The album is successful not only for being a very well executed and nicely interpreted jazz album but also for not [...]

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I mentioned the Finnish folk/nujazz band Korpi Ensemble on yesterday’s radioshow review, yet just to show you how much I love this song, I featured it once again, so make sure you listen to it. Vocalist Johanna Iivanainen’s singing is very emotional, but of the inspirational and lively kind rather than the melancholic. I’m sure [...]

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Carrying on the good songwriting ethos from the previous post, I should quickly mention Alela Diane to you. Portland’s Holocene Music released her self-released second album in October, after she made 650 copies by hand, that is “sewing lace and paper bags for the case, drawing golden ships, lettering ink, and burning each cd“. So [...]

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The Konki Duet, (worlds only three piece duo?) are three talented & geeky indie girls from Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Paris. I have written about them here last year on a myspace roundup. They’ve got their debut album as a trio, called “Moutain Mouton”, out last november on Active Suspension. A little bit fragile and [...]

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I’m terribly obsessed with White Magic’s “Dat Rosa Mel Apibus“, even more than the time I featured them here. A few searches here and there led me to some live performances and stuff, so today’s once again White Magic time.

White Magic - Song of Solomon // Live @ The Palace Theater, LA

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