Ladama
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Loga Ramin Torkian
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Kassé Mady Diabaté
KASSÉ MADY DIABATÉ For almost half a century Kassé Mady Diabaté has been recognized as one of West Africa’s finest singers. He is a descendant of the most distinguished griot family of the ancient Manding Empire, the Diabatés of Kéla, and his...
Meklit
When The People Move The Music Moves Too (2017) Photos BIO PDF | DOC We Are Alive (2014) Photos Bio Downloadable bio...
Karsh Kale
KARSH KALE The word prolific barely begins to describe Karsh Kale’s storied career. The British-born, New York City-raised producer and multi-instrumentalist of Indian heritage has spent the last two decades zigzagging the world, headlining major festivals and...
Midival Punditz
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Mosquitos
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Niyaz
The Best Of Niyaz (2017) Photos BIO Downloadable Bio (PDF) Downloadable Bio (DOC) The Fourth Light (2015) Photos Bio Downloadable Bio (PDF) Sumud Acoustic EP (2013) Photos Sumud (2012) Photos Bio Downloadable bio...
Nina Miranda
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LADAMA
LADAMA LADAMA is a group of four women, virtuosic musicians, and educators — Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas—each from a different country and culture of the Americas, who are sisters in song, rhythm and spirit. Harnessing music from...
Lal Meri
LAL MERI It’s no coincidence that Nancy Kaye, Ireesh Lal and Carmen Rizzo chose to name their groundbreaking collaboration after the ancient Sufi folk song, “Lal Meri,” an interpretation which closes the trio’s seductive and refreshing Six...
Pacifika
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Lenine
LENINE Ever since Antonio Carlos Jobim came north to record with Frank Sinatra in the 60s, artists like João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto Gil have carried the legacy of MPB – the acronym for “Brazilian Popular Music” – to a global audience. ...
Piers Faccini
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Loga Ramin Torkian
LOGA RAMIN TORKIAN Iranian born composer and multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian is internationally recognized for his ground- breaking work with world music groups Niyaz and Axiom Of Choice, both of which he co-founded. Born in Tehran, Iran, Loga moved...
Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal
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Tanzania Albinism Collective
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The Real Tuesday Weld
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Los Mocosos
LOS MOCOSOS Imagine for a moment that you’re a music critic. You’re checking out the new CD by Los Mocosos, and you’re thinking, “okay, this is fun. Some good old barrio-style rock.” Then suddenly you’re hearing reggae and funk...
SILVA
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Meklit
MEKLIT There are many well-appointed rooms in the mansion that is Meklit, and her breathtaking new album sounds at home in every one. The Ethiopian-born Oakland- based artist has belted “Cold Sweat” with James Brown saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis, co-founded the...
Midival Punditz
MIDIVAL PUNDITZ There’s good reason the New Delhi-based duo of Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, aka The Midival Punditz, are known as the Chemical Brothers of India. For 18 years their pulsing, driving electronica has pulled from an eclectic variety of sources across the...
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
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Silvana Kane
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The Turbans
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The Silver Lake Chorus
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Mosquitos
MOSQUITOS Mosquitos – singer Juju Stulbach, singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Root, keyboardist-programmer Jon Marshall Smith — are musical nomads whose songs occupy a mythical place somewhere between Brooklyn and Brazil. Mexican Dust is the trio’s fourth...
Natacha Atlas
NATACHA ATLAS Globally celebrated singer Natacha Atlas has been building towards the subtle beauty of her brand new album ever since 2008’s internationally acclaimed acoustic, orchestral album Ana Hina. Recorded with guests including pianist Zoe Rahman, a...
Vieux Farka Touré
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Nina Miranda
NINA MIRANDA Nina Miranda has spent most of her life living between Brazil and London, and this hotly awaited solo album is bursting with the dissonance and freedom of her experience. Reminiscent of the flamboyant, nimble songbird that haunts the lowland forests...
Niyaz
NIYAZ Described by the Huffington Post as “an evolutionary force in contemporary Middle Eastern music”, NIYAZ has created a 21st century global trance tradition by seamlessly blending medieval Sufi poetry and folk songs from their native Iran and its surrounding...
Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan
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Ojos de Brujo
OJOS DE BRUJO Ojos de Brujo is one of the most strikingly original bands of the new millennia. There is no one quite like them; not only because of their vibrant, seemingly supernatural musicality, but also because of their radical contemporary edge and strong...
Yiddish Glory
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Pacifika
Pacifika’s global fusion works precisely because it is not a fusion. There is no sense of trying to blend one thing with another; this is the work of three musicians, coming from Peruvian, North American, and Barbadian families, for whom rock, Latin, Caribbean, hip hop, and jazz are all part of a single international musical language – a kind of musical Esperanto.
Zmei3
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Patato
PATATO Thanks to the popularity of the Buena Vista Social Club on records and on film, Cuban music is enjoying a renaissance in the United States. Patato: The Legend of Cuban Percussion offers a 21st century audience the chance to meet one of the musicians...
Piers Faccini
PIERS FACCINI Cevennes, France – Monday, August 29, 2016 – Not a day sooner could Piers Faccini have penned the 10 songs featured on his latest full-length studio recording, I Dreamed An Island (Six Degrees Records; October 21, 2016). Writing in real time as history...
Zomba Prison Project
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Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal
PIERS FACCINI AND VINCENT SEGAL Piers Faccini and Vincent Segal met in Paris in the late 1980s and have been friends ever since. Songs of Time Lost is their first joint album. Using voice, guitar and cello and a variety of languages (including English, Neapolitan...
Rara Avis
RARA AVIS Known in the music world as Rara Avis (n. latin for Rare Bird), Alex King-Harris is a dedicated master of his craft with over 20 years experience in multi-instrumental live performance and music production with a core focus on where the electronic...
Shrift
SHRIFT Maybe you’d like to find something a bit warmer and more elegant than the latest musical fare – maybe even something a little bit mysterious. Maybe you’re looking for songs that appear in a fresh form, an effortless acoustic and electronic...
SILVA
SILVA You never know what will influence your music. For young Brazilian singer Silva, an entire planet is behind his third full-length album, Jupiter (Six Degrees Records). A smooth collection of pop songs inspired by bossa nova, R&B, electronica and hip-hop,...
Silvana Kane
SILVANA KANE La Jardinera, the solo debut from Silvana Kane, best known as the vocalist with acclaimed, Juno nominated, Global Pop ensemble Pacifika, is the singer’s most personal effort to date. Comprised predominantly of cover songs by her favorite Latin...
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA United We Swing Since their arrival in 2000, Spanish Harlem Orchestra (SHO) has established itself as a standard bearer of contemporary Latin music. Directed by world-renowned pianist, arranger, and producer Oscar Hernández, the...
Tanzania Albinism Collective
TANZANIA ALBINISM COLLECTIVE It is a sad and tragic fact that people living with Albinism (a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes) in East Africa are hunted and persecuted, based on the belief that their body...
The Dø
THE DØ “It’s like a magic formula to us,” says Olivia Merilahti, referring to the title of The Dø’s sophomore record, Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees, November 15). “It produced many different images in our minds. It refers to A...
The Orb
THE ORB The Orb, for years the most fearlessly fascinating sonic marauders on this or any other planet, returned in 2008 with a new album, The Dream, marking a long-awaited reunion between eternal mainstay Dr. Alex Paterson and lifelong friend and original...
The Real Tuesday Weld
THE REAL TUESDAY WELD WARNING: Some Thing is stalking the streets of London in the new album The Last Werewolf. This Thing is not wholly of our time, but seems to be caught between past and present. It is elegant – literate even, on the surface… but there is an...
The Turbans
THE TURBANS In a politically divided time it’s hard to imagine a band comprised of members from across Europe and the Levant as not being inherently progressive. The Turbans, whose self-titled debut album will be released on March 23 (Six Degrees Records), features...
The Silver Lake Chorus
THE SILVER LAKE CHORUS The Silver Lake Chorus performs choral arrangements of indie music and exudes both the edgy, independent spirit of Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighborhood and the heart of community choral singing. In 2010, Australian singer Ben Lee...
Tom Middleton
TOM MIDDLETON Lifetracks is the debut solo album from the endlessly inventive Tom Middleton. Almost a decade in the making, the album draws inspiration from Eno, Debussy and The Orb, but equally Tom’s native Cornish landscape and the liberating experiences of...
Undersea Poem
UNDERSEA POEM For Chris Root and Juju Stulbach, making music is like capturing sunshine in a bottle. The New York City-based pair has perennially chased the sun – and surf – when the northern weather has grown cold. With each trip to their favorite spots on the...
Vieux Farka Touré
VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ When the producers of the Woodstock Sessions, a hybrid/live recording series in Saugerties, NY, asked Malian guitarist and vocalist Vieux Farka Touré to stop by in 2015, he didn’t have enough time to make it happen. Intrigued, he promised to return...
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
VIEUX FARKA TOURE AN JULIA EASTERLIN Don’t be fooled by the title, Touristes. The famed Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, and the rising American singer and performance artist Julia Easterlin, both sound completely at home in this unexpected musical...
Warren Cuccurullo And Ustad Sultan Khan
WARREN CUCCURULLO AND USTAD SULTAN KHAN Lost tapes always raise an eyebrow. Unexpected sessions by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Marley and the Beatles suddenly emerge to great fanfare. When dealing with India’s greatest sarangi player of modern times, Ustad...
Willy Porter
WILLY PORTER Spend an evening with Willy Porter and experience a rare communion between artist and audience. With High Wire Live, his first live album, listeners who have never experienced Porter on stage can hear the quietly spellbinding majesty and improvisation...
Yiddish Glory
YIDDISH GLORY Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is the new recording of music created during the darkest chapter of European Jewish history. In the midst of World War II, a group of scholars led by ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 1961)...
Zomba Prison Project
ZOMBA PRISON PROJECT In the summer of 2013, Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, TV on the Radio) and his wife, Italian photographer and filmmaker, Marilena Delli, traveled to the south of Malawi specifically to document and...
Zmei3
ZMEI3 Zmei3 (pronounced zmay-tray) is made up of Romanian immigrants whose beautiful and heartfelt music rises from the harsh realities and struggles of a post-Communist rule. Their debut album Rough Romanian Soul (out April 22nd on Six Degrees Records) is produced...
Baraka Moon (Artist)
BARAKA MOON BIO The San Francisco Bay Area has long been fertile ground for the confluence for creative spirits and artists from all over the world to gather, exhibit and explore cross-cultural and counter-cultural ideas and bring new and fresh themes into the wider...
Jah Sun & The Rising Tide
JAH SUN & THE RISING TIDE BIO “What’s unique about Jah Sun’s sound is his lyrical virtuosity, along with precise arrangements and an abundance of charisma that affects his music with a palpable energy…” – Huffington Post Jah Sun & The Rising...
Janaka Selekta (Artist)
JANAKA SELEKTA BIO Imagine a place where Indian classical folk traditions collide into the fringes of electronic music. Where the laid back space of dub reggae meets the energy of bass rattling dancefloors. This is the contoured landscape San Francisco based DJ and...
Liquid Sound Design (LABEL)
LIQUID SOUND DESIGN In 1998, Youth (Martin Glover) decided to set up, LSD – Liquid Sound Design as Dragonfly’s sister label, specialising in chilled out soundscapes, sonic beats and mellow grooves. LSD was as natural progression for Dragonfly keen to...
Peter Himmelman (Artist)
PETER HIMMELMAN LABEL: HIMMASONGS BIO PETER HIMMELMAN PARES IT DOWN, LIFTS IT UP, AND PRESSES ON WITH PRESS ON, HIS VISCERAL, BLUESY, AND INEXPLICABLY PRESCIENT FIFTEENTH SOLO ALBUM The critically heralded singer-songwriter teams up with an uber-talented cast of...
Ruven Nunez (Artist)
RUVEN NUNEZ BIO Ruven Nunez says he lives in a bowl; the Swiss guitarist interrupts a thought on a recent Skype call, lifting his computer over his right shoulder to show exactly what he means. Out a window, across the entire horizon, is a row of mountains in either...
Suriya Recordings (Label)
SURIYA RECORDINGS Suriya Recordings is a new record label from seminal artist/producer, Youth (Martin Glover), R. Roversi, V.Gadher, working with A.Saha and F.Shepherd of PRSSV Institute of Performing Arts & Heritage. PRSSV is a not for profit charitable...
The Heart Is Awake (Artist)
THE HEART IS AWAKE BIO The HEART is AWAKE is a sonic expression inspired through Shingetsu Billy White, internationally acclaimed singer and musician for over 30 years, long time practitioner of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, yoga, non-duality and various shamanic...