Stories from around the world from our network of correspondents.
What a relief and a celebration: to be back in total lack of control.
The story of Polish soul singer Renata Lewandowska, a lost-and-found jewel of the Polish music from the 70s.
Electronic music in Georgia established itself as a lasting cultural phenomenon in the '90s.
Tracing the underground and experimental in Ukrainian music.
On the variety of Circassian music, while highlighting some of its outstanding traditional and experimental artists.
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.
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.
São Luís is one of Brazil’s most beguiling and unusual cities and the site of a highly unusual reggae scene that cuts across boundaries of race, class, age and gender, despite no obvious links with Jamaica.
An investigation into the unique character of derelict pipe-organs in Transylvania’s abandoned fortress churches and the various transformations that human-built ritual machines undergo once left devoid of human presence.
The fourth and final part of cultural expeditions in Indonesia focuses on tarawangsa.
The third part of cultural expeditions in Indonesia leads to Jaipongan, a Sundanese secular performance art.
Interviews with the members of the group Milan W & The Tulnic Ensemble of Avram Iancu.
Ahead of Konfrontationen's 40 years edition, read some thoughts and impressions from last year's festival of the free jazz and improvised music in Nickelsdorf, Austria.
Find out more about our music project Milan W. and the Tulnic Ensemble of Avram Iancu, commissioned by Europalia 2019 festival.
The second article exploring the vast territory of Indonesia investigates the Sundanese culture, specifically the ritual known as Kasenian Réak.
Luigi Monteanni explores the vast music territory of Indonesia. First stop: Priangan and Gamelan Degung.
The polyphony of modern metropolis is the natural soundscape for Houston based trio Khruangbin. Their sound is a rare fusion of influences that range from Thai funk to surf rock and psychedelia.
Super Onze of the city of Gao is Mali’s most renowned and refined Takamba band.