Collaboration between Johanna Sevä and Love Kjellsson creating modern Sami music. It’s a meeting of two individuals with radically different backgrounds but a common aim of expressing their thoughts and feelings.
Trio Rop creates songs where old folk tradition of ancient tales meet the group’s own new written material. Three unique voices with power and playfulness that whisper and cry; together they create a unique soundscape with dissonance, groovy polskas and fine-tuned text reading.
Multiple award-winning Senegalese/Swedish duo Sousou & Maher Cissoko are crossing borders in their music just like in their life together. Constantly on the move with musical and human meetings as their principal driving force. Maher was born to play kora and Sousou is one of very few female kora players in the world.
Trio Wolski's music is a mixture of traditional Nordic folk melodies and own compositions. Sophisticated arrangements are varied with free improvisations and with their special instrumentation, they create a sound that constantly shifts in dynamics and intensities.
The group has its base in folk music, but that has not prevented them from breaking the tradition and giving concerts outside the traditional folk & world music scene.
