From the duduk to spiritual jazz, Hiro Kone's Nicky Mao guides Bernie Brooks through a selection of thirteen tracks that informed and inspired her latest LP, Silvercoat The Throng Our journalism is ...

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Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where the Raï musical tradition began. In 1923, the first Raï singers performed behind screens ...

Cheikha Rimitti stepped onto the stage, her shoulder deliberately bared in the style that had earned singers like her the scandalous title "women of the cold shoulder." The conservative audience ...