Shai Maestro Trio was formed in July 2010 in Brooklyn after playing at maestro’s practice studio. The trio members are Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz. All reside in Brooklyn. “I met Ziv in Boston at the 5 week program. At the time he was a full time student at Berklee and he […]
”In a world of 24 hour party girls, Owlle is the rare creature of night who finds her bliss in solitude. Her shadowy electropop tunes, like breakout singles “Ticky Ticky” and “Disorder,” reverberate with the tremors of midnight, and the eerie afterglow of dancefloors long abandoned. T hey feel both futuristic and ancient — as […]
Genre: World Music Salif Keita, the long-time ambassador of Malian music, first met producer Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project), in January 2011. Philippe remembers that the first thing Salif said to him about the album was: “I want it to dance!” and Philippe wanted to make a dance record, so they got off to a very good start. […]
The Canadian rising star singer/songwriter Kellylee Evans is a chameleon-like performer, whose natural charm and improvisational panache have shined on her adventurous journey through jazz, soul, pop and hip-hop over the past decade. In that period, she released two indie solo albums of original songs in Canada, earned two Juno Award nominations (winning “Best Jazz […]
After 500 gigs in 15 countries over 6 years with a fully DIY attitude, Scarecrow is one of France’s hardest-working bands. Dark, explosive, and unique the band has generated its own style, called Blues-Hiphop, a protest music for the 21st century. From working songs born in American cotton fields, to urban sounds fed by big […]
Éléphant? An uncommon name for an uncommon band. Behind the beast, meet two slender creatures: Lisa Wisznia (27) and François Villevieille (29). She’s wearing pink, he’s all in blue, she’s on percussions, he’s banging on a suitcase in lieu of drums. The duo that is Eléphant has naturally found its rightful place amongst the new […]
Charles Aznavour is perhaps the best-known French music hall entertainer in the world — renowned the world over for the bittersweet love songs he has written and sung, which seem to embody the essence of French popular song, and also for his appearances on screen in such wildly divergent fare as Shoot the Piano Player, Candy, […]
Melanie De Biasio is a graduate of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and already an acclaimed artist in her home country of Belgium and in the neighboring Francophone nation to the south. Initially heralded as a new voice in jazz, albeit jazz “d’autres univers”, other-worldly, so to speak, her first album “A Stomach Is Burning” […]
