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Akim El Sikameya more »
At their closest point, the continents of Europe and Africa are a mere seven miles apart. In the music of Akim El Sikameya, they seem even closer toge&hellip » read more
Amina more »
AMINA Biography supplied by artists management, Sept 2002: ?I?m interested in many musics,? explains Amina. ? I think of my voice as an instrument. &hellip » read more
Asa more »
Soothing soul from Lagos via Paris "It is normal for an African girl to take up the mother role. But I am a free soul and I spent a long time fightin&hellip » read more
Babylon Circus more »
From France
Rebel music from the self-proclaimed "French gypsy dancehall punksters" "What we found there wasn't what we'd been told by the press. It wasn't as vi&hellip » read more
Baka Beyond more »
From Cameroon, France, Ghana, Sierra Leone, United Kingdom
Cradled in the heart of the African rainforest lives one of the oldest and most sensitive musical cultures on earth. The music of the Baka pygmies is &hellip » read more
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal more »
Kora and cello duet - both featherlight and heavyweight If Toumani Diabate had chosen on a different path in life, Ballake Sissoko would be the planet&hellip » read more
Ben l'Oncle Soul more »
From France
Soul brother numéro un Round these parts, we've always been of the opinion that French is the language best suited to rap, its poetic syllables melti&hellip » read more
Bibi Tanga and The Selenites more »
From Central African Rep., France
Rulebook-ignoring esoterica from Africa via Paris When the music of Bibi Tanga wafts in your general direction, it's quite easy to visualise his reco&hellip » read more
Bratsch more »
From France
FRANÇOIS CASTIELLO, when, as a young boy, faced with the difficult choice between becoming a bricklayer like his father, or earning his living as a mu&hellip » read more
Caravan Palace more »
From France
Swing and gypsy jazz get 21st-century makeover If you've ever seen that YouTube clip of Christopher Walken dancing his way through a hotel lobby with &hellip » read more
Chapelier Fou more »
From France
I'm a one-man band - the 21st-century way One-man bands used to look pretty similar. Big bass drum on the back, acoustic guitar, harmonica rack, ring&hellip » read more
Chemirani's more »
The Chemirani Ensemble is a renowned Persian classical music ensemble. The group is made up of Chemirani family members, master percussionist, Djamchi&hellip » read more
Color of Invention more »
From France
The Colors of Invention are Gilles Apap?s band. Violinist Gilles Apap will perform with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and in a separate performanc&hellip » read more
Compagnie Ekart more »
From France
Skilled puppet master Tarek Messamer makes a valiant effort to tame his two giant robots in two delightful roving shows ... Maurice & Jules (an insep&hellip » read more
Diana Hamilton more »
In the still-to-be-written Complete History Of Caribbean Music, the Bahamas will claim a far slimmer chapter than those of noisier islands like Jamaic&hellip » read more
Digital Bled more »
From France
2001 Biography The global musical melting pot of Paris is increasingly falling under the spell of urban club dance music. Digital Bled are lead by th&hellip » read more
Donso more »
Malian tradition meets Parisian futurism "I had no interest in making house music with African voices over it. That's already been done to death. It h&hellip » read more
Féfé more »
A founding member of the French hip-hop collective Saian Supa Crew, Féfé is best known as rapper and singer Fe2 or Feniski. He has now emerged as a s&hellip » read more
Fawzy Al-Aiedy more »
Biography supplied by management, March 2004: Fawzy is born between two rains at Basra (Iraq) towards 1950. He studied at the Music Institute of Bagh&hellip » read more
Frédéric Galliano and Kuduro Sound System more »
Born in Valence in the south of France in 1969, Frédéric Galliano developed a great passion for music in his teens. The young music fan quickly acquir&hellip » read more
Gilles Apap & the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra more »
Hailed by the late Yehudi Menuhin as ?the violinist of the 21st Century?, Gilles Apap distinguishes himself as a resolute iconoclast. A classical vio&hellip » read more
Gnawa Diffusion more »
From France
Gnawa Diffusion are a purist?s nightmare. This bunch of young chaps from the Alpine city of Grenoble regard all notions of musical purity as redundant&hellip » read more
Gotan Project more »
From France
Success in the music industry doesn?t only come via a carefully choreographed, cash-heavy marketing campaign. Those cheeky scamps Arctic Monkeys harne&hellip » read more
Gracie Spoon "The Tiger's Bride' more »
From France
The magical, mystical Gracie Spoon has learned every trick in the book: card tricks, coin tricks, palmistry, mentalism and fortunes. From her quirky u&hellip » read more
Hindi Zahra more »
Paris-based singer Hindi Zahra pulls a dozen or more influences into her easy jazz style, and keeps the whole thing gorgeous and relaxed. Her voice is&hellip » read more
Hocus Pocus more »
From France
There are plenty among us who believe that some of the most persuasive, most lyrical, most SEXY rapping has been done in the French tongue, whether it&hellip » read more
Julien Jacob more »
Biography by Andy Morgan, July 2003: Few are the pioneering musicians who have managed to invent a whole new style or musical language, but how many h&hellip » read more
Kad Achouri more »
Biography supplied by management, June 2003: Kad Achouri was born to Algerian and Spanish parents in the small town of Mazamet, south-west France, in&hellip » read more
Kali more »
From France, Trinidad & Tobago
Born in Martinique, a French-speaking island in the Caribbean, Kali is a banjo-picking singer-songwriter who was a member of 6th Continent, one of the&hellip » read more
Kamel El Harrachi more »
Far and wide, Kamel looks like Dahmane E-Harrachi, author of "Ya Rayah" track (popularize by Rachid Taha), of whom he is the elder son. Kamel follows &hellip » read more
La Compagnie des Quidams more »
From France
Draped in white clothes, Quidams? long white willowy figures advance from the shadows. Seeming to materialise as if out of nowhere, they speak in the &hellip » read more
La Compagnie Transe Express more »
From France
Imagine a child's nursery mobile coming to life, with characters balancing in the air, suspended at the end of a nylon wire ... This is La Compagnie &hellip » read more
La Luna more »
From France, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
La Luna is a multi-national dance troupe formed especially for WOMAD Singapore 2003, and is choreographed by the Creative Production Group (CPG). The&hellip » read more
Lama Gyurme and Jean-Philippe Rykiel more »
LAMA GYURME Born in Bhutan in 1948, Lama Gyurme exhibited very early exceptional qualities and a strong attraction for the monastic life. At the age&hellip » read more
Le Phun - "Les Gûmes" more »
From France
Creating strange and ephemeral transformations of place, Le Phun will construct six magical installations focusing on things that grow from the earth.&hellip » read more
Les Goulus more »
From France
Official website: www.lesgoulus.com Les Goulus will be providing outrageous walkabout cabaret and entertainment - look behind you! Transforming them&hellip » read more
Les Yeux Noirs more »
From France
It?s not just because Les Yeux Noirs are fronted by two violin-wielding brothers that the word ?fraternity? comes to mind. Eric and Olivier Slabiak ha&hellip » read more
Lo'Jo more »
Free-spirited combo that goes wherever it pleases "Our music is an anarchic garden we try to cultivate so as to make it both beautiful and wild. We a&hellip » read more
Lo Còr De La Plana more »
From France
Polyphonic singing with a modernist streak Chances are that you've never heard of - let alone heard - the Occitan language. The keen-eared would have&hellip » read more
Lokua Kanza more »
From Congo Dem. Rep., France
Biography by Andy Morgan, July 2002: Keeping faith with your roots and identity on the one hand and developing a style with global appeal on the othe&hellip » read more
Los Excéntricos more »
There are three of them: Marceline, Sylvestre and Zaza. French and Catalan. Which makes no difference, because their homeland is the world. Spain, Gre&hellip » read more
Los Excentricos more »
Revert back to your childhood or, if you?re under 12, laugh your head off with mum and dad, in the company of Los Excentricos, three maestros of surr&hellip » read more
Mamani Keita and Nicolas Repac more »
Heavenly marriage between Africa and Europe "When I was a kid, I got a few beatings from my mother because she really didn't want me to sing. I wasn'&hellip » read more
Manu Dibango & Ray Lema more »
From Cameroon, Congo Dem. Rep., France
MANU DIBANGO Biography supplied by management, September 2002: Who knows ? If he had not been born under the star sign of Sagittarius, he might nev&hellip » read more
Nouvelle Vague more »
From France
Punk and new wave like it was never intended From the same mindset that found Hayseed Dixie offering up breathless bluegrass versions of heavy rock cl&hellip » read more
Orange Blossom more »
No-one could accuse the music of Orange Blossom of sitting on a fence, unable to decide which side it?s on. Their manifesto is one that?s committed an&hellip » read more
Orchestre National de Barbès more »
ONB: twelve groovy guys The venue, in the working-class area of Arcueil, a suburb to the south of Paris, had been named "L'usine" (The Factory) and of&hellip » read more
Oumar Sow more »
From France, Senegal, United Kingdom
OUMAR SOW was born in Dakar in 1959. When he was still a student, Oumar formed a small group called Bataxal with Pape Dieng as kit drummer and Jean P&hellip » read more
Rachid Taha more »
Rachid's "Bonjour" is no ordinary greeting. It is not the standard "bonjour" uttered reflexively. Since the 80s, Rachid has been consolidating his mus&hellip » read more
Radiokijada more »
Rodolfo Muñoz and Christoph H. Müller, met in Paris in the early nineties and together they created an amazing work of art - Radiokijada. The aim of &hellip » read more
Rokia Traoré more »
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rokia Traoré returns with Tchamanchté, the follow-up to her award winning and critically acclaimed 2003 &hellip » read more
Sally Nyolo more »
Born in Cameroon, but a resident in Paris, Sally got a head-start by performing as part of Zap Mama ?popular, funky, acapella group. Since starting he&hellip » read more
Sarah Savoy & The Francadians more »
From France, United States
Sarah Savoy & the Francadians are a group of dedicated musicians based in Paris, France, led by Louisiana-born and -raised Sarah Savoy. Brought up by &hellip » read more
Secousse featuring Etienne Tron and Mo Laudi more »
From France, South Africa
Around the world in 80(ish) minutes "Mainstream music culture was becoming an oppressive and stagnant machine, dance music was stuck and our interest&hellip » read more
Sergent Garcia more »
From France
With three albums that exude the festive sensuality of a global citizen, Sergent Garcia has become the French ambassador of sunny beats. His music ? t&hellip » read more
Seyinda Insa Wade more »
For fans of Senegalese and West African music, the pairing of Wade (pronounced Waad) and Sow is big news indeed. Wade was born and raised in the Gueu&hellip » read more
Simon Shaheen & Qantara more »
From Cuba, France, United States
Simon Shaheen, master of both the oud and violin, has broken much new ground in his career, mixing traditional Arabic music into jazz. With his new ba&hellip » read more
SMOD more »
The group SMOD was born in 2000, created by Sam, Mouzy, Ousco and Donski. In 2002, with the help of Amadou&Mariam´s manager, they edited their first&hellip » read more
Souad Massi more »
Often compared to Joan Baez or Tracy Chapman, Souad Massi is a leading light among Algerian artists. Born in Alger on August 23 1972, Souad comes from&hellip » read more
Speed Caravan more »
"I've always had this rage that I need to express." Mehdi Haddab sits back, rests his electric oud on his lap. "Rage against, I don't know? injustice.&hellip » read more
Styl'O'Styl more »
From France
Styl'O'Styl is an association created in 2004 by a Hip Hop dancer and a Jazz musician who wished to gather these two disciplines which the origins are&hellip » read more
Tinariwen & Lo'Jo more »
A hugely exciting collaboration between two groups who have both proved themselves to be smash hits with the WOMAD audience. One not to be missed! 2&hellip » read more
Titi Robin more »
From France
Titi Robin believes in the universality of music, wanting his own songs to be heard "by those in love on a balcony of a council highrise or at the ter&hellip » read more
Titi Robin Quintet more »
From France
Titi Robin Quintet are: Titi Robin - guitar-ud-buzuq Pepito Montealegre - cante Francis Varis - accordion Kalou Stalin - bass Ze Luis Nascimento - pe&hellip » read more
Toubab All Stars more »
From France
Are you ready for the French Specials? A metaphorical world away from Paris's postcard-friendly tourist traps, Barbes is one of the city's less visite&hellip » read more
University of gnawa featuring Aziz Sahmaoui more »
Intoxicating sounds from the former Orchestre National de Barbes man If only all places of learning were as so darned groovy as the University of Gna&hellip » read more
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