George Stolz

Goya and Madrid


Shamik Bag

India


Mel Campbell

Australia


Nick Frisch

Beijing, China


James Hendicott

Dublin, Ireland


Eve Hyman

Buenos Aires, Argentina


Jessica Hundley

Los Angeles, California, USA


Alexandra Ivanoff

Istanbul, Turkey


Peter Margasak

Chicago, Illinois, USA


Miles Marshall Lewis

Paris, France


Siobhan O'Leary

Berlin, Germany


Alina Simone

Russia


Meakin Armstrong

Southern USA


Lea Feinstein

Munch and Olso


Kristin Hohenadel

Van Gogh and Arles


Barbie Latza Nadeau

Caravaggio and Rome


Sandra Smallenburg

Vermeer and Delft


Mikael Awake

Ethiopia


Gemma Blackwood

Australia/New Zealand


Scarlet Cheng

Hong Kong


Eija Margit Niskanen

Japan


Mikael Awake

Iran


Elise Jongeun Yoon

Korea


Lee Middleton

Africa


Jose Lustre Jr.

Thailand/Morocco/ Puerto Rico


Andrea Chignoli

Argentina


Jason Anderson

Canada


Alvaro Ceppi

Chile


Nisha Gopalan

New York


Enrique Ramirez

Mexico City/Scandinavia


Liz Brown

San Francisco/Italy


Julien Sévéon

France


Tom Beer

UK


Laurel Maury

Russia


Pelin Turgut

Turkey


Shari Kizirian

Spain


Hannah Tucker

Germany


Frank Gossner Serves Up Hot Vintage Afro-Pop With “Lagos Disco Inferno”

 
If you’ve ever thumbed through an edition of our “Music + Travel: Worldwide” guidebook to musical scenes from around the globe, you’d know that we have a soft spot in our hearts for the bouncing Afro-Pop beats that flowed out of the Africa starting in the 1970s. Specifically, we’ve dedicated an entire chapter to “Ethiopop”, [...]

OUT NOW! Music + Travel Worldwide: 12 Cities / 12 Scenes

In Music+Travel Worldwide our expert guides take a musical tour around the globe. Check out our sound sampler before you buy the book…
 
Jazz Land: Chicago by Peter Margasak
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Hometown Hero: Ken Vandermark and the Ken Vandermark 5
 

 
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Inside Eithiopop

Most Americans got their first taste of Ethiopop from ‘Broken Flowers‘ the 2005 Jim Jarmusch film which featured a soundtrack by Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke.
 
Trained in the UK and the US, Astatke’s unique style gave birth to a new type of Ethopian music, one that blended jazz and Latin music with his country’s signature [...]

Swing Shifts: Addis Ababa

Journey back 1,500 years to the birth of music in Ethiopia, explore modern-day Addis Ababa and discover a sound that has influenced artists from Bob Marley to Common. Mikael Awake is your guide to Ethiopop — a genre that emerged when artists like Mulatu Astatke blended jazz, bebop and blues with a sexy, lilting Ethopian [...]