BALKAN BEAT BOX - AB 04/2010
"Do we really need to define music? What happened with Balkan Beat Box is that, over the years, developing ourselves as musicians and as people, we started mixing up stuff we basically grew up on.
FOOL'S GOLD - AB 04/2010
"Lewis (Pesacov, red.
JUNIOR KELLY - PETROL 03/2010
"Red Pond is a name they call the community I grew up in, Frazer's Content (Spanish Town, St.
LEROY 'HORSEMOUTH' WALLACE - VOORUIT 03/2010
"Well, drumming is something you have in your head, you know, and music is in your heart.
BA CISSOKO - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 03/2010
"Yeah, we started out as a trio, but after a while I felt I wanted to expand the band a bit, so we added a guitarist and a percussionist and these days we perform as a five-some.
TAMIKREST - AB CAFE 03/2010
"Yes, it's a word that is mainly used by the Algerians and Malians.
LA PEGATINA - YOUTH HOSTEL GENERATION EUROPE 03/2010
"We came to Brussels to shoot a clip to accompany the song 'Gat Rumbero' from our album 'Via Mandarina'.
TARRUS RILEY - VOORUIT 02/2010
"Well, actually that song was recorded some months earlier, but the album was released close to his unfortunate death.
QUEEN IFRICA - CC DE WERFT 02/2010
"Yeah, the Pitfour Nyahbinghi Centre is the Rastafarian community I grew up in.
THE MOON INVADERS - CC DE WERFT 02/2010
"The thing is we're half American, half Belgian.
IBRAHIM MAALOUF - THEATRE 140 12/2009
"I started to play the trumpet at age seven and studied classical music until 2003.
STAFF BENDA BILILI - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 11/2009
"We all started out as buskers, but some band members already knew each other from when they were still in school.
SUGAR MINOTT - PETROL 11/2009
"It happens.
TONY ALLEN - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 11/2009
"Well, I didn't really need my own drum kit, you know, because local club proprietors would often provide the necessary instruments.
BAABA MAAL - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 10/2009
"Podor is situated in the north of Senegal at the border with Mauretania, a part of Senegal that in the past was part of the large Mandingo Empire.
MULATU ASTATKE - HET DEPOT 10/2009
"Well, that was exactly the problem; a problem that was not only a reality in Ethiopia, but in most third world countries.
AFEL BOCOUM - ZUIDERPERSHUIS 10/2009
""Tabital" simply means "the enforcement" and "Pulaaku" means "Fula", so it's "the enforcement of Peul culture".
ROGER ROBIN - TRIX 09/2009
"I hear you did your homework.
THE CONGOS - MINNEMEERS 09/2009
"Well, we linked up with Lee 'Scratch' Perry again for this album.
AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE - REGGAE GEEL 08/2009
"Before African Head Charge I was involved in Nyahbinghi in Jamaica.