Music can preserve history in ways that go beyond dates and documented events. Through melody, atmosphere, and storytelling, it can bring distant moments into a more immediate emotional frame. “Fateful Ski Trip”...
Malian-born, Oslo-based percussionist and musician Sidiki Camara presents his latest original album Ankaben, a work whose title means “Humanity.” The album brings Malian musical traditions together with Norwegian jazz, folk and contemporary...
There are artists who make music — and then there are artists who make worlds. John Ross McEwen is firmly in the second category. The Wichita, Kansas singer-songwriter, guitarist, collagist, and experimental...
Sidiki Camara has spent more than five decades building bridges between musical traditions, and Ankaben, out September 4th, might be the fullest expression of that work yet. Malian-born and Oslo-based, Camara is...
WICHITA, KS — Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multimedia artist John Ross McEwen announces the release of his new album, Late Bloomer — a quietly extraordinary record of ambient folk music that explores grief,...
Multifaceted artist Luz Uzal (Lucía Molina) has released her stunning new single “Selling You a Lie”, a powerful cinematic reimagining of the Franklin Gotham indie original. Transforming raw energy into a sweeping,...
Bob Augustine, recording as Folk-IndieBob, has always written songs that seem less interested in arriving at answers than in documenting the questions people carry with them long after the conversation has ended....
Lucía Molina's project, released under the name Luz Uzal, has moved fast since debuting with "38," a Radio Click Digital-praised reinvention of Latin soul, and "alma," a stripped-back, visceral single I covered...