Artist Genre Category: Global

Mamadou Diabate was born into a traditional musician family (Sambla people) in Burkina Faso (West Africa), with a long tradition of practising the profession of story telling and music making. At the age of 5 he started his professional training with his father Penegue Diabate, … read more »

Two times Grammy-nomminee, composer, percussionist and innovator Manu Delago started his solo career in 2007 when he uploaded a video onto Youtube. The solo piece “Mono Desire” was the most popular Handpan video on the internet with over five million views and charted … read more »

“Marie Spaemann’s first EP ‘The Moony Sessions’ offers a promising foretaste of a debut album from a musician whose beguiling artistry combines influences of soul and jazz with just a touch of classical,” Dagmar Golle, Bavarian Radio The musical journey of cellist … read more »

MARWAN ABADO was born into a Christian Palestinian family in a refugee camp in Beirut (Lebanon). In 1985 Abado fled from the civil war zone to Austria and continued his musical training with the Iraqi oud master Asim Chalabi. In Vienna he … read more »

Mona Matbou Riahi, was born in 1990 in Tehran. During her early years of music education she studied in “Tehran conservatory of music”. At the agen of 17, She moved to Vienna for further studies and entered the Vienna University of Music … read more »

Wrapping the traditional sound in a new guise: The Moritz Weiß Klezmer Trio continues the history of klezmer and retells it in a wonderfully expanded musical language. Founded in 2015, the virtuoso trio builds a bridge from the past to the present, … read more »

NAPAEA is a Folk-Pop Band from Graz, Austria. Inspired by the Punkrock shows of their teenage years, NAPAEA deliver an energetic and emotional performance wherever they go. As an independent act, NAPAEA has toured all across Austria, Germany, the US and the … read more »

The fact that the oud, a typical Syrian instrument, can be excellently used in jazz is something that one would not think of at first glance when considering this folkloric instrument. The Syrian oud virtuoso Orwa Saleh proves the opposite: the dark … read more »

Hailing from across Europe and from a wide range of musical backgrounds, the sounds that emerge from the collaboration of the musicians Oscar Antolí, Rainer Maria Nero, Marko Ferlan and Carlos Ronda are diverse and unique. The combination of mild, yet jovial … read more »

The Özlem Bulut Band stands for an energetic mix of arabesque elements, jazz and pop. Özlem Bulut grew up listening to traditional music in Eastern Anatolia. When she continued her classical vocal studies in Vienna, she met a congenial partner in composer … read more »