The story of Polish soul singer Renata Lewandowska, a lost-and-found jewel of the Polish music from the 70s.
From archaic phonos to “Made in Romania“, here's a look on how the term “Balkan” is used in the construction and perception of rock music and manele.
We asked some of our contributors, collaborators and friends to help us and share their favourite albums of 2020.
Here's our selection of 41 albums released in November and December 2020.
An extended overview of the most important, challenging, and thought-provoking stories we commissioned and published this year in The Attic – all free to read, with no ads, no clickbait, no nonsense. Please tell your friends.
Jana Winderen’s sonic artworks are deeply representative of the contemporary moment and her practice focuses on recording and sharing difficult-to-access audio environments.
Two of Australia’s best known field recordists, Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett are sensing this slice of the planet – the Barwon Estuary in Victoria, Australia, a project that interrogates place as an acoustic space where sound, place, time and culture collide.
Tracing the underground and experimental in Ukrainian music.
I rely on different modal harmonies from Western and Iranian music and embrace a hybrid of sonorities that can belong to either of the traditions.
Manelization is a term used to describe the "threat" of transforming Romania into a manele-country.
This is the exact moment to start paying attention.
Here's our selection of 41 albums released in November and December 2020.
An extended overview of the most important, challenging, and thought-provoking stories we commissioned and published this year in The Attic – all free to read, with no ads, no clickbait, no nonsense. Please tell your friends.
Building a music collection might have implications for the discovery and conservation of a music...
I rely on different modal harmonies from Western and Iranian music and embrace a hybrid of...
Blixa Bargeld discusses Einstürzende Neubauten's latest album, quarantine concerts, Berlin and Iggy Pop.
Little could I know, having fun at my grandmother’s loom, that I was becoming part of an almost forgotten tradition among Iranian carpet weavers.
A close-up look into the artistic universe of German musician Carsten Nicolai.
The tradition of oral expression known as a dengbêjî, the job of a dengbêj – a ‘soundteller’– lies at the foundation of traditional Kurdish music and is the only path to survival of a language facing extinction.