Murky Recess

The Marrakech-born Maâlem Mustapha Baqbou is one of the great sentir (or gimbri ) players of gnawi trance music. Gnawa is traditionally he...

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten performs in her Syracuse, NY home at the age of 90. Segment aired on Aly Bain's BBC series, Down H...

Despite being hideously assassinated in his prime by the mass mind's collective will, Eric Dolphy's music has thankfully not been ...

Two early underwater diving machines: Frederic Drieberg's Le Triton, 1805 (top) and Karl Heinrich Klingert's copper kettle, 1797 (b...

    Between formed in Munich around two classically trained musicians—minimalist maestro Peter Michael Hamel and Popul Voh oboist/invent...

Filmed in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia, Holy Ghost People (1967) joins the Holiness church for worship. Director Peter Adair's ethn...

Originally the brainchild of João Ricardo, Secos & Molhados took definitive form in August 1972 with the addition of the bisexually char...

  The fact that Tsehay Yohannes (ፀሃየ ዮሃንስ) has not been featured on the voluminous Ethiopiques series is a testament to the richness of Eth...

   Not long after moving to the city in the 1975, Steve Treatment fell in with the glam kids who haunted Marc Bolan's central...

I want to extend heartfelt appreciation to Doug from Give the Drummer Some on WFMU for devoting an hour of his show to ...

    When Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk gave her the official title, "Queen of Golden Voice," Ros Sereysothea was th...

Sali Sidibé is one of the best-known kamalen n'goni singers from Mali's southern Wassoulou region. Since the 90s, her ...

Memorial portraitures, otherwise known as memento mori , were a common means of remembering loved ones in America until the turn of the 20t...

Brigitte Fontaine recorded a solid string of avantfolk albums for the ineffable Saravah label in the seventie...

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