Podcast Multimusical
by Luis Gimenez Amoros
Multimusical provides in-depth interviews to musicians across the globe coming from a musical tradition but being able to combine different musical idioms. The questions are: How can musicians compose music using different musical styles? Can musical styles be the result of a wide cultural circulation beyond present state borders historically and at present?
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1. Toqa Elhagrassy: I Love My Qanun And My Egyptian Culture
Through her qanun, Toqa brings Egyptian classical music to the world by combining her musical heritage with multiple musical styles. This interview offers a great opportunity to gain insight into Toqa´s world and her “musical thinking”.
2. PART ONE Sazi Dlamini: The South African Academic - Musician Inspiratio
Sazi is an Ethnomusicology lecturer at UKZN in Durban, a talented musician, and an instrument maker among other attributes. The balance between being a well-researched academic and a gifted musician is rarely found in the world. Sazi offers an in-depth interview on his life through music and an in-depth reconsideration on multimusicality.
2. PART TWO Sazi Dlamini : The South African Academic - Musician Inspiration
Sazi is an Ethnomusicology lecturer at UKZN in Durban, a talented musician, and an instrument maker among other attributes. The balance between being a well-researched academic and a gifted musician is rarely found in the world. Sazi offers an in-depth interview on his life through music and an in-depth reconsideration on multimusicality.
3. Du Jiazen : The Chinese Pipa As A Way Of Learning About Music History In China
Du Jiazen is a talented pipa player that is doing his doctoral thesis on the history of pipa musical transcriptions from more than a Millenia to the present day. This interview offers a rich observation on the value of pipa in Chinese Music History. In addition, Du provides valuable observations that will make the listeners appreciate pipa´s music forever.
4. Suflan Sultan Faidzal : The Malaysian Composer Embracing Nationhood
Suflan is a multi-instrumentalist and composer working at Sultan Idris University. In this interview, Suflan invites the audience to think of how to make music for one of the smallest Asian countries with an incredible musical diversity.
5. Zahia Benzengli : The Algerian Singer Of Andalusi Music Between Paris And Algeria
Zahia is an accomplished singer in Algerian-Andalusi music. Zahia talks of his views on how music has been vital throughout her life and how it is important to maintain her musical heritage across France and Algeria.
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6. Hope Masike : The Zimbabwean artist bringing different Zimbabwean musical styles together
Hope is a mbira player with an amazing voice. In this interview, she introduces her new album “Anotida” whereas she combines precolonial mbira music with gospel songs. The possibility of combining both worlds is controversial but, somehow, Hope can do it.
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7. Fevronia: The Greek singer ranging from Rebetiko to Lyrical singing in Germany
Fevronia is a Greek singer that resides in Germany for more than 10 years. However, in this interview, Fevronia was in Greece. Fevronia speaks of how it is to be between two musical worlds: the Greek rebetiko and western classical music.
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8. Göksel Yilmaz: The musician bringing hope from Utrecht to Antakya
Göksel is not just a great musician but a believer in music to bring hope and people together after the earthquake in Antakya in 2023. The musician was raised between the Netherlands and Turkey. During this interview, he was in Izmir developing his project for helping Antakians through music. In this interview, he offers a rich and deep view on how his music moves beyond personal growth into a bigger picture.
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9. Annika Hinsche: The mandolin in Germany and elsewhere
Annika is a mandolin teacher at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in Cologne. This interview is rather a master class on mandolin´s repertoire across periods and countries in Europe. Annika´s observations on the history of the mandolin are inspiring and able to place such instrument at the same level as any other instrument within the array of Western Classical music.
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10. Nduduzo Makhathini: Jazz and the search for African custody through atemporal realms of music
Nduduzo is a well-known jazz artist internationally that highlights how his music moves beyond jazz through his search on spiritual atemporalities within South African History. This interview provides his views on how music is a vehicle to realms where musical idioms merge.
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More episodes will be launched every Tuesday.
