Music Meets podcast with MaJiKer

Marianne Dissard, the globe-trotting chanteuse, writer, poet, filmmaker and performance artist joins MaJiKer to discuss embracing artistic mistakes, how to communicate beyond language and touring the world on the back of a donkey., with tracks from Kendrick Lamar, Alice, Harry Nilsson and Konono No. 1. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/10-music-meets-marianne-dissard/ More info: www.majiker...

Páll Óskar (AKA Paul Oscar), Icelandic superstar, cultural icon and Eurovision legend joins MaJiKer to chat about Eurovision, how to write a great pop song and discuss music from Donna Summer, a Bulgarian choir, a gay erotic electro pioneer, an Icelandic lullaby and Pàll's latest Number One smash hit single! Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/9-music-meets-pall-oskar/ More info: www.majiker...

Icelandic tenor Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson joins MaJiKer to discuss Susanne Sundfør, Hebridean psalm singing, a political Icelandic folk song and Eyjólfur gives an exclusive live performance with his home-made traditional Icelandic instrument, the langspil. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/8-music-meets-eyjolfur-eyjolfsson/ More info: www.majiker...

Jeff Melnyk, producer, remixer, indie label guru & mindful marketing expert, joins MaJiKer to celebrate 10 years since the release of Melnyk's debut album. They explore electronic and acoustic-but-electronic-sounding tracks from Iceland, Central African Republic and... Essex. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/7-music-meets-jeff-melnyk/ More info: www.majiker...

GAGGLE founder & cultural commentator Deborah Coughlin joins MaJiKer to discuss the role of women in music via a nihilistic post-punk anthem, a North African gender-bending dance tune and the lady who pretty much invented rock'n'roll... in 1941. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/6-music-meets-deborah-coughlin More info: www.majiker...

Sean McGhee, producer, songwriter, singer & mixer extraordinaire joins MaJiKer to discuss the genius of Xenomania, a moody modal ode to music, the masters of glitchy electronica and a French love song about a river. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/5-music-meets-sean-mcghee/ More info: www.majiker...

Soprano, composer & arranger Sarah Dacey joins MaJiKer to discuss 'cultural appropriation', a love symphony which evokes ritualistic horror, exotica from a Peruvian jungle queen and Madonna at her most surprising. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/4-music-meets-sarah-dacey/ More info: www.majiker...

Award-winning composer & alt-folk artist Kerry Andrew joins MaJiKer to discuss pre-tonal choral music composed by a murderer, hypnotic jazz-minimalism, a genre-straddling singing cellist and paranoid synth-funk from ABBA. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/3-music-meets-kerry-andrew/ More info: www.majiker...

Welsh-born electro-pop artist Bright Light Bright Light (aka Rod Thomas) joins MaJiKer to discuss the works of Björk, the king of Georgian folk music, the secret glam-rock history of Tori Amos and Kym Sims' poor grasp of grammar. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/2-music-meets-bright-light-bright-light/ More info: www.majiker...

Canadian singer-songwriter Melissa Laveaux joins MaJiKer to discuss Afrofuturism from Bogotá, hysterical hedonism from the 1980's, the legacy of a rap pioneer and lesbian pirates from the 16th century Caribbean. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/1-music-meets-melissa-laveaux-2/ More info: www.majiker...