As this month sees the release of 'Buena Vista Live at Carnegie Hall', director Wim Wenders talks about the magic combination of music and film and his experiences making the 1998 documentary 'Buena Vista Social...
After five years as Minister of Culture, Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil steps down from his government role. Mondomix took the opportunity to find out about Gil's vision for the democratization of culture; from Culture Hotspots to...
Mahsa Vahdat talks of the challenges of teaching a millenium-old music tradition to neophytes in the French capital. She compares the experience to those in Tehran where she is professor of the maqam traditions that have forged classical Persian music....
What characterises Richard Bona’s music career is his creative drive; his fecund exchanges with fellow-artists; and his unquenching desire to perform live. Bona’s concerts are adrenalin-pumping affairs punctuated by humour and innovation. Bona...
Part ONE : Producer and manager Brother Sam has been part of the Mystic adventure since the early Sixties. He and his fellow-travellers describe the prejudice and hostility the band overcame to continue their music based on the three drums, the...
Louis Mhlanga is one of several artists featured in this 24-minute special on Music Freedom Day 2008. The others are his colleague Eric van der Western, the Basque singer Fermin Muturuza and the Ivorian reggaeman Fadal Dey. All...
Midon goes over the challenges he has had to meet in order to assert himself as a major solo artist. He describes the musicians and styles that have influenced his distinctive sound. Despite his recent success, he says, he continues to struggle in...
Bill T. Jones and Yungchen Lhamo describe the challenge of creating this exchange between dance, the voice and stripped-down percussions. This was a unique experience, the first time Europe’s most famous museum had been transformed for such...
Final programme in a four-part series on this festival on the lip of one of the few remaining rainforests in the world. The series was broadcast as the world leaders debated at the UN Kyoto Climate Conference in Bali. It seemed appropriate,...
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