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.
Ba Balance is a new, award-nominated duo consisting of Danish guitarist Preben Carlsen and Gambian percussionist Sal Dibba. They mix dirty desert rock with rhythms from Central and West Africa and spice up their groovy sound with influences from psychedelic rock and blues. "Rocking electric guitar and percussion duets, like an African White Stripes." wrote the English world music magazine Songlines.
