Savina Yannatou - Profile
Savina Yannatou is a Greek singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter from Athens. With her interpretation of traditional folk music from the Mediterranean region, the Balkans and the Middle East, she was able to establish herself as a well-known representative of world music. Read more about Savina Yannatou.
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan - Profile
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan is an Armenian duduk player and composer from Yerevan. He was born in Yerevan on November 30,1983 and is one of the most famous musicians in his country. Read more about Emmanuel Hovhannisyan and his career here.
Infinity Of Sound - AMAZING MUSIC FROM KOREA
Infinity Of Sound is a South Korean band consisting of the three triplets sisters Kim Jin-ah, Kim Sun-ah, Kim Min-ah. The band interprets the song "Dāvāja Māriņa meitenei mūžiņu" by the Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls and the Latvian poet and lyricist Leons Briedis.
Interview with Liron "La Gitana" Meyuhas
"I formed my first band when I was 7 years old and I totally rocked it in front of the neighbourhood kids."
Jerusalem-born Liron Meyuhas is a true natural talent when it comes to music. She not only has a perfect mastery of a virtually endless list of percussion instruments, but she is also a singer and songwriter in numerous musical projects that are spread out around the globe. A true world musician, so to say. Global Music Network spoke with her about her musical career, how she first came into contact with Arabic music, and why she calls herself “La Gitana”.
Loxandra Ensemble - Profile
Loxandra is a Greek music group from Thessaloniki. The band was established in 1997 originally by bassist Loukas Metaxas and kanun player Dimitris Vasiliadis. In the meantime, the band has a line-up of 8 permanent members.
Diwan El Banat - Profile
Diwan El Banat is a group from Israel made up of five musicians based in Jerusalem. The band’s name Diwan El Banat is a term from Arabic culture meaning “the sitting room where women get together”.
Äl Jawala - Profile
Äl Jawala is a world music band from Freiburg, Germany founded in 2000. The group of five describes their style of music as Balkan Big Beats – Fat Boy Slim meets folklore, so to speak – and it is made up of elements of oriental and Eastern European music combined with contemporary dancefloor music.
Interview with Gypsy Hill
Ancient Yemenis chew khat with a Romanian trumpet player at a south London rave!
It’s hard to believe, but in the south of London there is a neighbourhood that answers to the ringing name of Gypsy Hill. It was precisely from there that DJ Kobyashi and Herbert Newbert decided to take over the international party scene with their hybrid club and Balkan sound. We spoke with the two brains behind the Gypsy Hill project on the release of their debut album “Our Routes”.
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