Clandestino Podcast

Meet the experimental composer and singer Hatis Noit. Inspired by the great American voice artist Meridith Monk, and by a kind of role playing of sounds, Hatis Noit takes us on a journey exploring the human voice and how it can connect us both with our own memories and with nature. Her music consists of Layers upon layers of wordless singing. Echoing the sounds of opera, Japanese Gagaku and Bulgar...

Derya Yıldırım is a singer, songwriter and bağlama-player known for her work together with Grup Şimşek. On two albums and a long series of EP:s, this quartet creates captivating songs filled with deep emotions and high degrees of danceability. Turkish psych-rock, synth pop, funk and jazz are some possible references. A fundamental part of Grup Şimşek's music however, is Anatolian folk music –...

In this episoide we meet Maya Dunietz, a pianist and  composer from Israel, known for her diverse projects within everything from jazz to classical music and sound art. She will tell us about her work documenting and performing the music of the Ethiopian composer, pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.  Emahoy was born in Addis Abeba in 1923. As a child she discovered the music of Beethoven...

One of the most exciting jazz albums of this year so far is Yeahno Yowouw Land by Swedish all star quintet Langendorf United. In this episode we talk to the bandleader Lina Langendorf, a saxophonist whose curiosity not only took her on a continuing musical exploration into Ethiopian jazz, she's even jammed with non other than Mulatu Astatke, a.k.a the father of Ethio jazz. Before we get to th...

We talk to Annie Caldwell, singer and forming member of The Staples Jr Singers.  They started out as a group of teenage siblings in 1975, covering their favorite songs by Mavis Staples – hence the bandname The Staples Jr Singers.  Most weekends they would play shows across their home state of Mississippi and beyond.  But like many gospel musicians of the time, they lacked the backing of a record c...

With a brand new style, from Soweto, South Africa: Meet BCUC  – Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness. This seven member group is known for their explosive live shows, built on melodic bass lines, intense drumming and sometimes the conjuring of ancestor's spirits.  In this episode, the two main singers of the group, Nkosi "Jovi" Zithulele and Kgomotso Mokone, talk to Markus Görsch abou...

Marina Herlop is a classically trained vocalist and pianist from Barcelona. On her latest album Pripyat , she leaves the signposted road and gets deliberately lost in a magical forest of cut-and-paste piano melodies and bird calls. Like an heir to Meredith Monk, she lets her voice slip between guises: humming, whispering, singing…  She has also experimented with composition techniques from South I...

Guedra Guedra a.k.a. Abdellah M. Hassak is a musician and producer from Morocco who explores the nomadic tribal cultures of North and West Africa, tracing the tracks from thousands of years of migration to crossroads of traditions where the continent’s music blossomed. The sounds that form the backbone of the debut album Vexillology come from a library of field recordings. Choirs, flutes, string i...

One of Iran’s most important musicians and composers, Kayhan Kalhor was born to Kurdish parents in Teheran and already as a thirteen-year-old found himself playing in the National Radio and Television Orchestra.  At the age of seventeen his career was abruptly interrupted by the Iranian ­Revolution. Alone, with nothing but a suitcase and his favourite instrument – a kamancheh – he escaped to Europ...

The composer and ­multiinstrumentalist Lea Bertucci works with a combination of performance and sound installations. Alto saxophone and bass clarinet are her go-to instruments, but flutes, organs, and field recordings also play important roles.  In 2021 she released A Visible Length of Light , an album that emerged out of a turbulent year in the USA. The beauty of the ­American ­landscape – beache...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the taarab music of Zanzibar was revolutionized by the singer Siti Binti Saad. In stark contrast to previous versions, hers was an improvised people's music with lyrics in both Arabic and Swahili. As the first female superstar of the genre, Siti Binti Saad also paved the way for coming generations – one of them being her great granddaughter Siti Muharam,...

From the underground scene of Nairobi, Kenya comes this duo consisting of Martin Khanja and Sam Karagu. As Duma they make extreme metal using samples of traditional drumming, synthesizers, found sounds and drums machines, sometimes played at a mindblowing 666 beats per minute. They both used to play in bands with traditional lineups including guitars and drumkits. But when one of these groups – Th...

Moroccan singer and master of several string instruments Majid Bekkas is one of the foremost modern gnawa musicians. He is also one of the genre's superspreaders to the west through his collaborations with jazz legends such as Archie Shepp and Pharaoh Sanders. And lately, he has been playing with the Magic Spirit Quartet alongside Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš and others. In episode nine, Ma...

Meet Hasan Nakhleh, singer and keyboard player of the band Tootard. He started the band with his brother Rami when they were both living in the Golan Heights. Since then they have gone through several line ups and their style has changed from Mali blues meets Arabic reggae to a kind of 80's Levantine disco sound, like on their latest album Migrant Birds .  In this interview Hasan Nakhleh talk...

On their album Nayda, the French-Moroccan group Bab L' Bluz use modernized versions of the traditional string instruments guembri and awicha, to create a combination of North African gnawa and hassani music, mixed with blues and rock n roll noises. Bab l' Bluz talk to Markus Görsch about the role of female musicians in Morocco, and about their unique sound, created not only through the m...

Meet Nuri, a musician who uses field recordings, pygmy songs and tribal drums. Not to forget drum machines and FAT bass, creating electronic dance music that he calls Afro Bass.  His full name is Amine Nouri, and he grew up in Tunisia but has spent more than half of the last decade in Copenhagen. One of his influences is Stambeli, an ancient Sufi music with ecstatic and healing capacities. Stambel...

Asad Buda is an Afghan writer and artist. He was born during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and was only two years old when his father was killed by the Mujahideen. A member of the country’s Hazar minority, Asad Buda had a religious upbringing. As a teenager he moved to Iran to study Islam. However, his experiences, along with the discovery of writers such as Paul Celan eventually made him questio...

Clandestino Podcast # 4: Roger Robinson Roger Robinson is a poet, activist and singer of King Midas Sound. The Swedish edition of his latest collection of poems is being released in December 2020, a book entitled A Portable Paradis, which explores the idea of a utopian paradise. Robinson writes about the paradise that was denied the inhabitants of Grenfell Tower, an apartment building in London wh...

In episode three of Clandestino Podcast, we meet guitarist and singer Lula Pena. Her music has been praised by the likes of Caetano Veloso, while others describe her voice as a female version of Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits. Traces of French chanson, bossa nova and Greek traditional music can be heard in Lula Pena's songs, blending with the music she once became known for: the Portuguese fado,...

I avsnitt två träffar vi Ebo Krdum, gitarrist, sångare och låtskrivare. Musikkarriären började när han som grabb spelade muntrummor och sjöng på gatorna i Darfur. På en hemmabyggd gitarr lärde han sig sedan spela, inspirerad av afroblueskungen Ali Farka Touré. Idag bor han i Stockholm och har utnämnts till Årets nykomling på Folk- och världsmusiken tillsammans med bandet Genuine Mezziga. I den här...

I det första avsnittet någonsin av Clandestino Podcast träffar vi musikern Sara Parkman, som berättar om arbetet som årets gästcurator för Clandestino Festival. Sara ger oss en liten introduktion till artisterna som hon bokat till Hagakyrkan den 7 juni, då Clandestino arrangerar en “musikalisk novell” istället för det ordinarie festivalprogrammet. Vi får också höra hur hon upplever denna vår prägl...