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Steve Hochman
SOGNEFJORD, NORWAY – Carl takes us to the Tine Dairy in the town of Vik, the only dairy that produces gamalost cheese, an acquired taste indeed with its almost grain-like texture and somewhat bitter taste, but it's one that is acquired instantly. It is tied to the Norse of more than a millennium ago, the very low-fat treat ...
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Christina Griffiths
LONDON – The Hindi word rishte, explained singer Najma Akhtar onstage at the Jazz Cafe in Camden Town last Thursday, means relationship or connection – with a lover, God, time or even a creative process. It was by this point already quite clear this evening that the latter was very much the case with Gary Lucas, ...
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The Førde Folk Music Festival was officially opened with welcomes to a crowd of 1,800 in the Førdehuset auditorium in 10 languages – from the two head directors of the event and eight participating artists coming to Norway from Asia, Africa, and North and South America, as well as Europe. It was perhaps odd, then, that Her ...
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As the World Cup winds up its run this weekend – pick one – a) transcending or b) putting a sharper focus on the tensions and divisions of global geopolitics, more than 25,000 people will be gathering in a small town tucked along a fjord in western Norway to do both. And without all those fake injury dramatics.
Every July since 1990, ...
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Before taking Niger Saharan trance music back around the world on a current tour, the members of the band Etran Finatawa wanted to do another tour, taking its music and culture to a new audience: the children of Niger.
"It's a project that we have been planning for a couple of years," says band manager Sandra van Edig. "We have done many ...
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"Not like this before."
That's A.R. Rahman's answer when asked if he'd ever done anything comparable to the current tour of elaborate dance numbers staged to highlights from his vast catalog of music composed for Indian films.
"It's a combination of Broadway and a rock concert and Bollywood," he says. "I've been wanting to do this for ages." ...
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When Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo developed a distinctive approach that wove together ancient Persian poetry and sensibilities with influences of Western rock and blues in a singular, individualistic aesthetic, the reaction was clear:
"I got kicked out of university," he says.
When Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo continued to develop a ...
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