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Storyteller and Songwriter Alice Merton Plays In-Studio
Episode 50
Alice Merton burst out of the starting gate with her 2016 single "No Roots", a song that celebrated her nomadic upbringing in four different countrie…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kiran Ahluwalia's Songs of Protest and Hope
Episode 49
Singer Kiran Ahluwalia was born in India, grew up in Canada, and is largely based here in New York. Her music reflects her transcontinental upbringin…
2 years, 4 months ago
Shabaka's Latest Adventure: Connecting to Nature and Breath With Flutes
Episode 48
Shabaka Hutchings, now Shabaka, has been a crucial and connected London-based musician for years, leading arena dance-jazz band Sons of Kemet, cosmic…
2 years, 4 months ago
José James Threads the Past Into Message-Music With Soul
Episode 47
José James has often been called a “jazz singer for the hip hop generation,” having come to jazz through tracing hip hop samples and over the course …
2 years, 4 months ago
Community-Fueled Chamber-Pop By San Fermin
Episode 46
American indie rock-chamber collective, San Fermin, has been making lush, wide-angled Baroque-pop songs for more than a decade. The band was founded …
2 years, 4 months ago
Cameroonian Composer Blick Bassy's Folk, Soul and Electro Songscapes
Episode 45
France-based Cameroonian musician and composer Blick Bassy’s quiet and beautiful songs fall somewhere on the spectrum of R & B, pop, and folk, while …
2 years, 4 months ago
Lizz Wright Transforms the Beauty of the Visual Into Song
Episode 44
Vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright is usually referred to as a jazz or gospel singer, and she certainly does sing both of those styles. But she’s al…
2 years, 5 months ago
Reyna Tropical's Spiritual Survival Songs
Episode 43
Reyna Tropical is led by guitarist, singer, songwriter and co-producer Fabi Reyna, who is the founder of She Shreds Media, dedicated to women and non…
2 years, 5 months ago
Producer and Rapper Erick the Architect Smiles Through It
Episode 42
Brooklyn-born rapper, producer & founding member of Flatbush Zombies, Erick the Architect released his debut solo LP, I’ve Never Been Here Before, in…
2 years, 5 months ago
Indie Fuzz-Rock Duo Deerlady's Shoegaze With Bite
Episode 41
Deerlady is the name of the band led by singer and bassist Mali Obomsawin and guitarist and singer Magdalena Abrego. Mali was part of the folk rock t…
2 years, 5 months ago