Music the artform and artists
How Sampa The Great Took Over the World
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Yet Sampa’s been fighting for her art ever since the unruly desire to become a rapper first gripped her. “In Zambia, in our household, music as a career is just not a thing,” she says.
Rencontre avec Brian Eno: le visionnaire de la world music
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
"Sors de ce corps, Jezebel, au nom de Jésus, sors, esprit de destruction et de chagrin". La voix d’un vrai exorciste, à la fin des années soixante-dix, captée sur les ondes d’un transistor et enregistré sur une cassette audio par David Byrne, du groupe américain les Talking Heads, en mille neuf cent soixante-dix-neuf. Avec son collaborateur l’Anglais Brian Eno, il a eu l’idée de plaquer cette voix sur une matière sonore d’un genre particulier.
La historia de vida de Charly García
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Dueño de una carrera extensa e impresionante, el máximo referente del rock argentino nació un día como hoy pero de 1951 en Buenos Aires.
Now the Middle East nations get K-pop fever
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
South Korean idols such as AleXa are tapping into this phenomenon by collaborating with Arab artists and performing in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
No tune, no words, no dancing: why white noise is the music industry’s newest hit
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
The sounds of bonfires, waves and rainfall are helping us relax – and making millions.
Meet the Artists Shaping the Wave Music Scene
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
As the genre's popularity soars within the electronic music space, so too does the success of its early adopters.
Ernesto Djédjé : roi du ziglibithy, père des ziglibithiens
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Comment oublier la coupe afro, les pattes d’eph, les costume rutilants en satin mais surtout le jeu de jambes d’Ernesto Djédjé lorsque, embarqué par les percussions, il ponctuait ses solos de danse par un magistral coup de tête qui valait à lui seul tous les breaks.
Artistas femeninas más escuchadas en 2022
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- Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Al centrarse específicamente en los temas musicales en español interpretados por mujeres, tres artistas influyentes pelean por liderar el listado. Argentina, España y Colombia están representados entre estos exitosos tracks.
Remembering Pharoah Sanders, Who Sought Divinity on Earth
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022
To hear Pharoah Sanders tell it, he spent his six-decade career reaching for something that was always just beyond him. From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to contextualize it, it is clear that the something he sought had a spiritual dimension.
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