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Maika Makovski: Interview SXSW 2010

Multi-instrumentalist Maika Makovski's mixed heritage (she's equal parts Mallorcan, Macedonian and Andalucian) means she's lived a more nomadic life than most. Having settled in Barcelona (by way of New York), she's recorded her international debut LP, the self-titled 'Maika Makovski', with John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels). Maika's already toured with ...

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The Niro Interview: SXSW 2010

Davide Combusti, a.k.a. the Niro, is a singer-songwriter born in Rome. In 2005 he opened for the Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche in Rome and subsequently received scores of invitations to share the stage with international artists. Since then, Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr, has nothing but words of praise for him. His first release was a ...

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The Second Grace Interview: SXSW 2010

The Second Grace is singer-songwriter Fabrizio Cammarata, who hails from Palermo, Sicily. Fabrizio's main inspiration is his home town, but there's a Cuban and North African feeling there as well. You can hear the echo of Miriam Makeba's lullabies, and songs in which a Cuban trés is unexpectedly in harmony with Indian tabla and electric ...

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The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads Interview: SXSW 2010

The seven knights of the pop apocalypse, or seven guys from Reims, France? This many-headed ensemble come to show the world that those of the Gallic persuasion can do folk too -- it's not only Gainsbourg or Daft Punk. They certainly don't subscribe to the usual traditions of French pop. The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads (or the Bewitched ...

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Cocoon Interview: SXSW 2010

After releasing two E.P.'s 'I Hate Birds' (2006) and 'From Panda Mountains' (2007), French duo Cocoon released their full-length debut in 2009, 'My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash' (Sober and Gentle, 2009), an album filled with moving melodies and melancholic lyrics. Mark Daumail [composition, acoustic guitar, ukelele, beatbox...] and Morgane ...

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Guadalupe Plata Interview: SXSW 2010

Two young swamp blues worshippers -- Pedro de Dios Barcelo and Carlos Jimena -- perform a chemical experiment by mixing the rusty-water-wheel chant of Hound Dog Taylor, the darkness of Skip James, the hypnotic rhythms of John Lee Hooker and R.L.Burnside, the madness of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the sweet sound of Tampa Red, the killer slide of Elmore ...

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