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...
December 3, 2019
Preparing for Takeoff Listening Post 229. People on three continents paid to see Nella Rojas sing on stage even before the launch of her splendid debut album, but her first post-release show had a captive audience—passengers on an Iberia Airlines flight from Madrid...
January 29, 2019
On the Road Listening Post 186. As one of France’s leading recording artists, Kendji Girac knows the rigors of a marathon tour—indeed, before voice or instrument, his earliest training was for the road. He was born in the Dordogne to a family of Catalan-speaking...
December 18, 2018
Little Big World Listening Post 180. Think global, act local. The mantra applies to government planning, the environment and business, but it’s also a defining feature of music—and few artists active today have embodied the concept longer than the French-Spanish...
