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Maati Baani, funky mingling of Hindustani & Folk

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Maati Baani is a group from India centred around Nirali Kartik, a Hindustani classical trained singer. As stated on Facebook Maati Baani is “a world music band combining elements of Hindustani Classical with various styles of Folk music and New age sounds; we are like mad people set loose!! No rules, no boundaries, we simply create the sound that we love to hear with our different styles of music.” Influences they mention are: Michael Jackson, Pt. Jasraj, A.R. Rahman, Shankar Tucker, Indian Ocean, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Sting, Ustad Rashid Khan, Jack Johnson, and Coldplay. The band has done some exciting and succesful collaborations with a.o. American clarinet player Shankar Tucker and with folk singer Mooralala Marwada. I just like to add one word to characterize Maati Baani: Fun! 🙂




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The extraordinary mature voice of 14 yr old singer Danica Krstic from Serbia

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Danica Krstic sings ‘Preletese ptice lastavice’

Extraordinary mature singing by tremendous fourteen yr old Serbian singer Danica Krstic (born 25-11-95), who toured in The Netherlands only a month ago. ‘Preletese ptice lastavice’ is a wonderful song – drenched in melancholia – about the flight of swallow birds and sensitive matters.

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Texan teen Sarah Jarosz is a huge talent

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In the press she’s been called (Gillian) ‘Welch’s lost young daughter’ 🙂 Bluegrass-country-folk songwriter Sarah Jarosz – a Texan teen, born in 1991 – is still very young and a huge talent. Her breakthrough album ‘Song Up In Her Head’, released in the summer of 2009, was now given a five star ‘top of the world’-review in Songlines (September 2010) by reviewer Rose Skelton who uses superlatives like ‘supertalent’, ‘fabulous moments’ and ‘exceptional piece of work’. On YouTube I found this track from Sarah Jarosz’s celebrated album, titled Shankill Butchers, a song she covered from The Decemberists. All the other tracks she wrote herself. Great to hear this new young talent.

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Bulgarian band Artery: article radio-portrait in 2001 + clip from that period

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In 2001 I made a radio-portrait of Artery, a Bulgarian band -led by bouzouki player and singer Yanko Brekov- that plays what one could call ethno-metal, a refreshing mix of hardcore metal (what made them famous in Bulgaria in the nineties), Greek rebetica and several styles from the Balkan region.
I wrote this short introduction to my documentary ‘Balkan Underground in Amsterdam’, it’s in dutch. Below this short article you’ll find a YouTube-clip of Artery from the period around 2000 when I made the radio-documentary on the band. I wonder how these guys are doing these days 🙂

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A song from the Artery-album ‘Balkan Underground’, released in 2000.

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Six-hour tribute-programme on Sandy Denny, De Concertzender, May 10, 2008, 1:00am-7:00am, dutch time

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From early youth I’ve been a great admirer of Sandy Denny’s voice and music.

Sandy Denny (1947-1978)

She’s one of the most legendary singers in the history of english folk music. On April 21st 1978 she died at the age of 31, after a fall down of the stairs, now thirty years ago. She’s once more featured on De Concertzender in a special tribute-broadcast devoted to her work, on Saturday May 10th, in the entire late-night programme De Nacht, from1:00am-7:00am, dutch time (!). You can listen online via internet. For me and evry other devoted admirer of her work it’s a not-to-be-missed transmission. On De Concertzender-website there’s a complete playlist. Another fine example of the unique musical journeys brought to the listener by De Concertzender. If you’ll miss it you can always listen on demand afterwards. This is very simple, but if still not clear you can turn to De Concertzender’s ‘how to listen on demand’-explanation.

Happy listening!

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