Category: World
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Nils Kercher makes delightful world music that stimulates the senses with sounds you’ve likely never heard before. The instruments he plays include the kora, balafon, and bolong. If you’re not familiar with them, don’t worry, neither was I.
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In 2010 Mylène Farmer, the most popular French artist in the world, surprised fans when she released her first album without longtime collaborator Laurent Boutonnat, Bleu Noir. Her formula with Boutonnat was simple: Laurent wrote the music and she wrote the lyrics. At least that’s how the credits read. I should think there were times…
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BACKGROUND: French singer Sindy is a member of a collective called Team BS, which was started by a highly successful French rapper/producer who goes by the name La Fouine. The group is called Team BS because the name of La Fouine’s record label is Banlieue Sale (translation: Dirty Suburb). Most of the team consists of…
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Owen Franklin is a very talented fellow who makes wonderful independent music and movies. “The Lover I Left Behind,” a truly touching piano ballad if ever we’ve heard one, is the theme song from his debut feature film, She Moved Through The Fair.
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Yes, the most exciting music rumor so far this year is true: Ireland’s most legendary band, The Corrs, are back! As in, the hugely popular and highly successful family band are making a new album and planning to tour! That’s all that is known as of yet, so I thought I’d give you a little…
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“Carmen” is French artist Stromae’s latest single from his excellent album Racine carrée. It is a “tribute” to Twitter and our consumption of tweets. (He even has a crazy blue Twitter bird following him around throughout the video.)
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As you well know by now, I’ll listen to music in any language and so today’s song of the day is Mexican singer Paulina Rubio’s “Mi Nuevo Vicio” featuring Morat. There’s always something wonderful about the way the Spanish language meshes with rhythmic music and “Mi Neuvo Vicio” is a perfect example of that, Rubio’s…
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This is what happens when the reigning queen of Chinese pop meets the reigning queen of Japanese pop… One fabulous, punchy as hell, kick ass pop song, primed for the dance floor. If you really despise EDM then this one might turn you off, but we’re getting tired of EDM, too, and we still were…
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I am very excited to tell you about French singer/songwriter Petite Meller’s fabulous new single (and video), “Baby Love.” Although she’s yet to release a full-length album, to me it feels like Meller has already released a few because each single she releases is like a special event.
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review and interview by Michael McCarthy previously published on OtakuDX Before we get to our interview with J-Pop’s future stars 4TE, I wanted to present a review of their wonderful double A-side MORE / 一歩ずつ… 4TE — pronounced Forte/for-tay — is a red hot new Japanese pop group based out of the U.S. and if…
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Ysa Ferrer is an artist who half of our readers have likely never heard of while the other half are undoubtedly quite familiar with her. If you live in the States — where we’re based — then you’re probably not familiar with her. But if you live in Europe, she’s practically a household name at…
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Ysa Ferrer is one of my favorite French artists. I’ve been following her since I bought her album Kamikaze in France in 1999. After that album didn’t fare very well, I believe she was dropped from her label. Then she would sporadically release a single here and there but during recent years she’s put out…
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Jolin Tsai is arguably the queen of Chinese pop, though I’d say that Elva Hsaio and Coco Lee are right behind her. In any case, she’s a massive diva releasing one hit album after another for at least ten years now. Here, fresh, modern beats that blend slick electro-pop and sonorous EDM give her just…
