Clandestino Podcast

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…