The latest Monday Morning Brew is a globe-trotting offering. It includes:
Estonian musician and singer Mari Kalkun with a track from her new album Stories of Stonia;
Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She was a representative of the Ainu culture on Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan – there are two tracks – one from Ihunke and the other from the recently re-issued vinyl release of Upopo Sanke.
Nieguid duovdagat (Dreamscapes), the third album of Ánnámáret, Sámi musician Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman, who is based in Utsjoki, Finland.
South Korea’s LEENALCHI, an alternative six-piece band, MD Pallavi & Andi Otto‘s Song for Broken Ships – they first crossed paths on a theatre stage in India ten years ago. Their musical relationship flourished with artistic residencies in Bangalore and Hamburg, their respective hometowns, and a concert tour in Japan.
Rola Azar was born in Nazareth – Palestine, then moved to Jerusalem to seek better opportunities and education and studied music at the Jerusalem Academy of Dance and Arts. “She sings of the homeland, its people, and its suffering, and harnesses its activity in promoting the Palestinian identity and fixing it in the minds of its followers.”
Plus: Nass El Ghiwane, a group established in 1970 in Casablanca, Morocco; Afro-futurist’s Onipa; Dengue Fever; Egyptian musician Maurice Louca; Maher Cissoko (born in Senegal, now living in Sweden), Guinean singer and guitarist Leon Keïta; Kronos Quartet; São Paulo’s Bixiga 70, Cantares del Pacifico, an ensemble that unites the artistry of six generations of Afro-Pacific musicians hailing from the vibrant heart of Buenaventura, Colombia; Julian Saporiti’s No-No-Boy, and music from Sufi Ensemble Jawa who celebrate the rich musical Sufi tradition that has been transmitted orally in Aleppo, Syria, for decades.
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