You are here: Homepage Tag music Articles Rapper Suppra comes from Kennedy, one of Bogotá's poorer neighborhoods, but lives in Chile. Photo: Daniel Lara Cardona Music | Colombia The beats of Bogotá Colombia’s capital is home to a vibrant and political rap scene which reaches a large audience with its powerful lyrics By Juan Álvarez 04/15/2024 Musician Elisapie Isaac Foto: Leeor Wild Playlist | Canada & Greenland The Sound of the Inuit Raucous vocals, nature-loving lyrics, love songs or simply some proper rock: the Inuit playlist by Canadian musician Elisapie Isaac By Elisapie Isaac 03/14/2024 Source: Ole Witt Playlist | Mongolia The sound of the Gobi Desert Songs about camels, sandstorms and minerals: The Gobi Desert is a rich source of inspiration for the Mongolian music scene. A playlist By Pau Szczap 01/06/2024 Screenshot of the online archive „Black Med“ by artist duo Invernomuto Source: Invernomuto / Courtesy of the artists A sound archive Europe’s immigrant roots The web project “Black Med” is a diverse sound archive of the Mediterranean region. It shows how European culture has been influenced by Africa and Asia for thousands of years Interview with Invernomuto 01/06/2024 French rap duo Triplego consists of rapper Sanguee and music producer MoMo Spazz Photo: TWAREG Hip Hop | France Between the Maghreb and the Banlieue The beat booms and the lyrics are radically intimate. The rap music of the French-African duo Triplego is created in the space between the Maghreb and the banlieue By Anissa Rami 12/25/2023 Photo: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Angola The artist with two faces Between fiction and beats, between Africa and Europe: as an author and musician, Kalaf Epalanga is always travelling between worlds By Kalaf Epalanga 12/22/2023 Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023 Freddy Lim performing with his extreme metal band “Chthonic” Photo: Nicolas Datiche / Getty Images Playlist | Taiwan “Heavy metal saved my life” Heavy metal star - and politician - Freddy Lim knows Taiwan's music scene inside out. A conversation about Taiwanese music and the ten songs you need to decipher it Interview with Freddy Lim 06/01/2023 Fatma Said, born in Cairo in 1991, is a soprano and most recently released the album “Kaileidoscope” Photo: James Bort Talking point | Music Why go to the opera? Opera: outmoded and out of touch or timeless and eternal? We ask the soprano singer Fatma Said By Fatma Said 06/01/2023 Scene of the opera “The Terrible Revenge” by Yewhen Stankowytsch, which premiered on 25 November 2022 as the first production after the Russian invasion Photo: National Opera and Ballet Theater Lviv Opera | Ukraine “We get a huge emotional feedback” It would seem hopeless to keep an opera house running during times of war. Vasyl Vovkun, general director of the National Opera in Lviv, talks about how he and his team keep working nonetheless 02/20/2023 Kornelia Binicewicz with her record collection Photo: private Pop culture | Turkey “The music is full of sorrow and longing” The project “Intimacy of Longing” uses interviews and mixtapes to tell the stories of Turkish women who migrated to Germany. On the link between music and homeland Interview with Kornelia Binicewicz 01/09/2023 The folk-punk musician Sunny War Photo: Randl Steinberger Talking point | USA Why do we need a right to abortion? By Sunny War 10/01/2022 Singer Aryana Sayeed Photo: Getty Images Playlist | Afghanistan „I have brought your prophets into the world“ Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs. By Farhot 10/01/2022 BL Shirelle at a performance. The musician and current co-director of DJC Records served ten years in prison herself Photo: DJC Records Pop culture | USA “A new prison built every ten days” Songs that break down walls: Poet Fury Young and musician BL Shirelle run a record label for people behind bars. Interview with BL Shirelle, Fury Young 04/14/2022 A pentatonic mbira made from a calabash, self-made by Joseph Weinberg Photo: Daniel Seiffert Make it yourself! A thumb piano Make an instrument that sounds like the sea: a mbira. By Joseph Weinberg 10/01/2021
Rapper Suppra comes from Kennedy, one of Bogotá's poorer neighborhoods, but lives in Chile. Photo: Daniel Lara Cardona Music | Colombia The beats of Bogotá Colombia’s capital is home to a vibrant and political rap scene which reaches a large audience with its powerful lyrics By Juan Álvarez 04/15/2024
Musician Elisapie Isaac Foto: Leeor Wild Playlist | Canada & Greenland The Sound of the Inuit Raucous vocals, nature-loving lyrics, love songs or simply some proper rock: the Inuit playlist by Canadian musician Elisapie Isaac By Elisapie Isaac 03/14/2024
Source: Ole Witt Playlist | Mongolia The sound of the Gobi Desert Songs about camels, sandstorms and minerals: The Gobi Desert is a rich source of inspiration for the Mongolian music scene. A playlist By Pau Szczap 01/06/2024
Screenshot of the online archive „Black Med“ by artist duo Invernomuto Source: Invernomuto / Courtesy of the artists A sound archive Europe’s immigrant roots The web project “Black Med” is a diverse sound archive of the Mediterranean region. It shows how European culture has been influenced by Africa and Asia for thousands of years Interview with Invernomuto 01/06/2024
French rap duo Triplego consists of rapper Sanguee and music producer MoMo Spazz Photo: TWAREG Hip Hop | France Between the Maghreb and the Banlieue The beat booms and the lyrics are radically intimate. The rap music of the French-African duo Triplego is created in the space between the Maghreb and the banlieue By Anissa Rami 12/25/2023
Photo: Kristin Bethge Personal history | Angola The artist with two faces Between fiction and beats, between Africa and Europe: as an author and musician, Kalaf Epalanga is always travelling between worlds By Kalaf Epalanga 12/22/2023
Photo: Dario Lehner Pop culture | Turkey Protest songs from the car radio When screenwriter Cem Kaya reflects on his childhood, he remembers the long car journeys from Germany to Turkey - and the music of the “Aşiks”. On the travelling singers of Anatolia and their links to pop music by immigrant workers in Germany By Cem Kaya 12/15/2023
Freddy Lim performing with his extreme metal band “Chthonic” Photo: Nicolas Datiche / Getty Images Playlist | Taiwan “Heavy metal saved my life” Heavy metal star - and politician - Freddy Lim knows Taiwan's music scene inside out. A conversation about Taiwanese music and the ten songs you need to decipher it Interview with Freddy Lim 06/01/2023
Fatma Said, born in Cairo in 1991, is a soprano and most recently released the album “Kaileidoscope” Photo: James Bort Talking point | Music Why go to the opera? Opera: outmoded and out of touch or timeless and eternal? We ask the soprano singer Fatma Said By Fatma Said 06/01/2023
Scene of the opera “The Terrible Revenge” by Yewhen Stankowytsch, which premiered on 25 November 2022 as the first production after the Russian invasion Photo: National Opera and Ballet Theater Lviv Opera | Ukraine “We get a huge emotional feedback” It would seem hopeless to keep an opera house running during times of war. Vasyl Vovkun, general director of the National Opera in Lviv, talks about how he and his team keep working nonetheless 02/20/2023
Kornelia Binicewicz with her record collection Photo: private Pop culture | Turkey “The music is full of sorrow and longing” The project “Intimacy of Longing” uses interviews and mixtapes to tell the stories of Turkish women who migrated to Germany. On the link between music and homeland Interview with Kornelia Binicewicz 01/09/2023
The folk-punk musician Sunny War Photo: Randl Steinberger Talking point | USA Why do we need a right to abortion? By Sunny War 10/01/2022
Singer Aryana Sayeed Photo: Getty Images Playlist | Afghanistan „I have brought your prophets into the world“ Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs. By Farhot 10/01/2022
BL Shirelle at a performance. The musician and current co-director of DJC Records served ten years in prison herself Photo: DJC Records Pop culture | USA “A new prison built every ten days” Songs that break down walls: Poet Fury Young and musician BL Shirelle run a record label for people behind bars. Interview with BL Shirelle, Fury Young 04/14/2022
A pentatonic mbira made from a calabash, self-made by Joseph Weinberg Photo: Daniel Seiffert Make it yourself! A thumb piano Make an instrument that sounds like the sea: a mbira. By Joseph Weinberg 10/01/2021
