All posts filed under “Music

Khansa

Watch that Man

Wided Rihana Khadraoui gets together with Khansa to find out how he’s been turning heads in Lebanon and abroad with the promo for his song Khayef

Kabreet - Bidayat

Playing with Fire

MK Harb digs into Yemeni-German duo Kabreet’s second album, Bidayat, brimming with songs of heartbreak, intoxication, and gender-questioning

A-WA

Triple Threat

Valeriya Nakshun and Franz Afraim Katzir of Sephardic Heritage in D.C. (SHIN-DC) talk to the Haim sisters about the Yemenite-Jewish musical phenomenon that is A-WA

Hassan Hajjaj

Gnaoua or Never

Alexander Jusdanis investigates how champions of Morocco’s traditional gnaoua music are adapting their practices to stay fresh and keep up with current trends

Mehmet Erdem

Blame it on Mehmet

It ain’t easy being Mehmet Erdem. Before a concert in Washington, D.C., Ezgi Üstündağ sat down with the singer to talk about his journey from small-town boy to big-city rocker.

Pashto Pop

Pirate Modernity

Perwana Nazif talks to Timothy P.A. Cooper and Abeera Arif Bashir of London’s Pirate Modernity radio programme about their search for some of Afghanistan’s funkiest sounds on tape

Islam Chipsy

High Voltage

Nicolas Gilles, a Frenchman living and working in Cairo, looks at the Egyptian musical phenomenon that is ‘electro-chaabi‘ and contrasts its trajectory with that of hip-hop in France