Music from US – Circadian Eyes

The project according to their bandcamp   “Circadian Eyes is the sound of Bryan Collins’ memories”.  Listen to ” Who we were”.

 

Music from Russia – Estas Tonne

Estas Tonne , a russian streetmusician , plays guitar in the streets of Landshut /Germany

The song of the golden Dragon ( have a look on his hands , the fingernails :-) )

Really great what this guy produces with his guitar

 

 

 

Music from Algérie – Hasna El Bacharia

Hasna El Bécharia is extraordinary. She is still the only woman in the Maghreb to play gnawi music, a ceremonial beat that has remained an exclusively male preserve since the animist beliefs of the Bilad es-Sudan, (in Arabic, the Land of the Blacks – today’s Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Chad) encountered the monotheist faith of Islam from across the desert. Her choice has exposed her to a great deal of rejection and sarcasm, but Hasna’s mind and soul are irrevocably bound up with the mystic trance music learnt from her father, a pious man who was himself a maâllem or master of gnawi (the plural of gnawa) syncretism, a black Sufism forged by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves in White Africa, also called diwan in East Algeria and stambali in Tunisia. Here is her song “Hakmet Lakdar”

//

Music from Cape verde – Bau

Rufino Almeida (12, 1962), best known as Bau born in Midelo, Cape Verde. Bau’s father was a stringed-instrument maker in Mindelo, the port of São Vicente island, the most famous in the Archipelago since the success of Cesaria Evora, also a native of this scrap of land that is also the home of many of Cape Verde’s greatest artists and composers.

At the start of the 90s, he recorded his first album with the Mindel Band, including the first pieces he had written himself – “Mindelo” (Lusafrica) – and performed on “Mar Azul”, the album that launched Cesaria Evora in 1991. In 1994, he joined the singer’s orchestra and, two years later, became its musical director, before passing the baton to pianist Nando Andrade in 1999. From the beginning of the 90s, Bau has published 6 solo albums of a sparkling beauty. Here is the song “Filosofia”

Music from the UK – Will Tun and the Wasters

Will Tun and the Wasters are a ska, folk and acoustic band from Reading, UK. Listen to their second single “Cracks in the wall”:

Music from Cameroon – Irma

Irma is a singer-songwriter born in Douala, Cameroon 15 July 1988. At the age of 7, she began to learn classical piano and at 12 she learned to play guitar by herself.  At this age  she composed her first songs, most of them appeared on her  first album “Letter to the Lord” fully composed and produced by her.

In 2003 she settled to Paris and started to post her videos in the internet .

Here is her song “I know “

Music from Germany – Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the most famous and influental composers and musicians ever. Listen to his full “Synphnony No.5″:

Music from the US – Lindsey Stirling

Lindsey Stirling, born in 1986, is an american violinist. She is famous for her choreographed violin performances. She is kind of crazy, but the violin and the electronic sounds fit together perfectly. Listen to her great single “Crystallize”:

Music from the UK – Henry Hall

Henry Hall was a british musician who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s. This is a recording of Henry Hall singing “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic” accompanied by the BBC Band Orchestra.

It has a very catchy melody, but it is weird and a little bit creepy.

Music from Germany – Xandixx

Yeah, again my next own new little piece. Called it “A break from life”, thanks for the idea Emre. It’s more a chillout song, makes me dreaming!