Tamar Ilana & Ventanas: Azadi

Tamar Ilana & Ventanas: Azadi

February 10, 2025

Windows and Mirrors Listening Post 385. Tamar Ilana’s fourth album is both an extraordinary weaving of musical strands and an improbable blender of historical forces born in coercion. The album’s deepest musical root is Flamenco—the art form nurtured by Spain’s...
Andrea Menard: Anskoonamakew lii Shansoon

Andrea Menard: Anskoonamakew lii Shansoon

July 24, 2023

Recipe for Survival Listening Post 374. The keyword from Andrea Menard’s fifth album is “rubaboo,” a stew typically made of meat, vegetables, flour, pemmican and sometimes maple syrup. The mixture is also an apt emblem for the artist and her people: Menard is a...