Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell — virtuosic twentysomethings, fiddle-player Owen Spafford and guitarist/vocalist Louis Campbell — are blazing a trail that erases genre, finds gold in the embers. Forget about tomorrow, they say. Welcome to the now.
Mari’s studio album Stories of Stonia has literally taken her around the world — having been presented in twenty countries since release. This new version of the album marks an important milestone, but it’s also essential to note that live performances sound quite different from the studio version, including stunning renditions of songs in collaboration with the Estonian National Male Choir.
Imbued with the spirit of their late uncle, the qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali have returned with another deeply accomplished, moving collection of songs that ache with the frenzied anxiety of falling in love and dreamy desire of devotion, At the Feet of the Beloved. Their vocals and arrangements are refined and, together with their party, they build a world that helps the listener connect to another one.
The Master Musicians Of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar