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Mick Jagger meets the Queen of the night

Two different artists with equal talent. Two different styles with equal strength.  Here we have Edson Cordeiro, a singer capable of reaching from Baritone to Soprano notes creating an explosive fusion with rock-roll star Cassia Eller. In this justaposition of Mozart’s Queen of the Night from the Opera The Magic Flute with Mick Jagger’s Satisfaction, […]

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Afunaka’s Rorogwela: Sweet Lullaby from the Solomon Island sold as Pygmy music

Although Rorogwella gained popularity in 1992, when released by Deep Forest as a techno-dance music, it was first recorded in 1969 by the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zampin as a vocal sample. It was sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita women from the Solomon Islands. In 1973, Rorogwela was released in a LP as part of UNESCO’s […]

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Tuvan Throat Singing

The performance of Huun Huur Tu starts with the soft sounds of strumming strings. They mimic the cadence of galloping horses. The same sounds are graciously decorated by other sounds that resemble grains dropping in a glass jar. At this moment, the mind is full of memories of the melodic peacefulness of a rocky spring […]

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