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Courtney Hartman Announces New Album, Shares 2 Singles

April 23, 2019April 28, 2019

2017 Alumna Courtney Anne Hartman announced her debut solo album, Ready Reckoner, and released two singles, ‘January First’ and ‘Hollow’. The album, which was engineered by OneBeat collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, is out June 14th. Regarding first single ‘January First’, Hartman told Rolling Stone, “I wrote [it] from my floor on New Years Day 2017, needing to throw off the expectations I piled upon myself, the small disappointments and the never being enough. The song became my soft resolution to be unapologetic for who I am and how I move through the world — even when I fall asleep with the light switch on or eat out too much or don’t know how to love someone.” Listen to ‘January First’ and ‘Ready Reckoner’ below!

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Jay Afrisando Presents ‘Gendhing Cosmic’ at The 2019 Linux Audio Conference

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019

2015 Fellow Jay Afrisando presented his new sound installation, ‘Gendhing Cosmic’, at the 2019 Linux Audio Conference at Stanford University. The work, which was played through 56 speakers and 8 subwoofers, was electronically generated using SuperCollider, the open platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. ‘Gendhing Cosmic’ reimagines how pakem- the principal guidelines derived and practiced in Javanese gamelan musical tradition- are ripped from traditional instruments, thereby scattering their original identity and creating a new one. The piece was originally exhibited at the 2018 Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival and the 2018 West Bank Arts Quarter Festival in Minneapolis.   Watch a video of the installation below.  

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Piotr Kurek Releases Polygome

April 2, 2019April 8, 2019

Warsaw based minimalist electronic musician and 2012 OneBeat Alumnus Piotr Kurek released a new album called Polygome last week. This is Piotr’s first release on the French/British electronic record label Hands In The Dark. Tiny Mix Tapes, who reviewed the album, wrote about the evocative power of Piotr’s latest work: “Even after repeated acclimations, the stark simplicity of Polygome can suddenly alienate you. It can veer into this dissociative static, along the lines of a synthetic performing human error, while the human doggedly hammers out machine-precise action. This impressively subtle disruption, particularly with such spare parts, gives the album a curious, oblong charm.” Read Tiny Mix Tape’s full review of Polygome HERE. Stream Piotr’s phenomenal new album below:

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ETYEN Featured on RedBull Music

March 25, 2019March 27, 2019
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Jigjiddorj Nanzaddorj performs at the first US Morin Khuur Festival

March 15, 2019May 29, 2019
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Muthoni Ndonga featured in Google Documentary

March 7, 2019May 29, 2019
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New Sandunes Collaboration Featured On Rolling Stone India

March 4, 2019March 7, 2019
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All About Jazz Reviews New Amir ElSaffar Production ‘Luminiscencia’

February 26, 2019March 7, 2019
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LADAMA At TEDx Charlottesville

February 12, 2019March 7, 2019
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Amel Zen Featured on CNN’s ‘African Voices’

January 28, 2019March 7, 2019
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Trio Abozekrys Release ‘Don’t Replace Me by a Machine’

December 27, 2018December 27, 2018
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Bongeziwe Mabandla teams up with producer David Scott on new song ‘Soloko’

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018
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Eduardo Valencia’s Quitapenas Release “Tranquilidad”

November 16, 2018
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Mandla Mlangeni Wins 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018
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Dahlak Brathwaite To Participate In US State Department’s ‘Next Level’ Diplomacy Initiative

August 10, 2018
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Lara Klaus Releases Debut Solo Album

July 11, 2018
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Livia Mattos working on Documentary financed by major bank Itaú Unibanco

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018
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Muthoni Drummer Queen makes Interactive VR music video

May 25, 2018May 25, 2018
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LADAMA release new video for “Confesión”

May 15, 2018June 15, 2018
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Hope Masike And Her Romance With ‘mbira’

May 3, 2018May 6, 2018
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Tigue share Video for “Triangle”

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
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New Fact Magazine Documentary Features Kato Change and Blinky Bill

April 12, 2018April 19, 2018
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Mehdi Nassouli Featured On New Song By Ammar 808

April 1, 2018April 4, 2018
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Park Jiha Previews Communion

February 5, 2018April 4, 2018
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Tom Tom Magazine Features Arun Sivag’s Strisvara

January 5, 2018January 7, 2020
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Searching for Sound feature: MITYA

January 8, 2017January 29, 2017
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Searching for Sound feature: Sandunes

January 7, 2017January 27, 2017
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Refugee Camp Street Studios

December 4, 2016December 7, 2016
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Strisvara celebrates women in music

November 15, 2016December 19, 2016
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Tiga Trio plays live from a long distance

July 25, 2016July 26, 2016
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IBK Spaceshipboi releases Padeya video

July 18, 2016August 27, 2016
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Playing Together: Central Asian Music Academy

July 17, 2016July 17, 2016
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Neil Chua Creates “Memoirs. De Melodies”

June 25, 2016August 26, 2016
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Fidel Kilic Leads OneBeat Istanbul

May 15, 2016June 5, 2016
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Tariro neGitare + Triple V Tour Zambia

May 6, 2016June 5, 2016
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Edward Ramirez – Cuatro Madness

May 5, 2016June 1, 2016
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Eva Salina New Album Release

April 1, 2016May 7, 2016
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Modernizing Korean Pansori music

March 15, 2016May 10, 2016
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Peni Rini New Album Release, ‘Bhumi’

February 18, 2016May 10, 2016
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Blinky Bill, Mitya, Eva Salina Poptech Collaboration

February 17, 2016May 10, 2016
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Kemba discusses his powerful 2016 album NEGUS

February 17, 2016February 24, 2017
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Sayak Barua Afghan Youth Project

February 16, 2016May 10, 2016
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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights January 2016 | Ft: LADAMA, Maskeliade Street Studios, 1Beat Inhambane

January 15, 2016April 6, 2016
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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights December 2015: Kyla-Rose Smith, Aquil Charlton and Sanaya Ardeshir

December 15, 2015December 23, 2015
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Blinky Bill Launches his Solo Project

July 10, 2015December 15, 2015
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Movement Music

July 10, 2015December 15, 2015
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Mpumelelo Mcata’s Black President

March 9, 2015December 15, 2015

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