Susana Baca has lived several lives throughout the course of her 77 years. She is a well-known singer in Peru and an advocate for Afro-Peruvian music, thanks to a collaboration with David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label. She is an ethnomusicologist who runs a cultural center in Peru, and she was just the second Afro-Peruvian […]

Yong Yue “Joyce” Oh, who composes film music as Joyce Oh, is an international award-winning pianist and multi-instrumentalist.  One of her composition trademarks is skillfully combining orchestral music with ethnic and traditional instruments where appropriate.  Like the most successful score composers, Oh’s work evolves and adapts to each project, which she recognizes as one of […]

Originally from Kobe, Japan, music producer and songwriter Felix Inoue grew up with music and, especially, with performance.  With piano as his primary instrument as a child, Inoue cut his teeth on different genres of music and, by his teenage years, started to gain a special interest in electronic music and the possibilities of this […]

Interview with the LA-based composer and musician on the nuts and bolts of his latest project Arswain is the conceptual electronic project of Los Angeles-based composer and producer Freddy Avis. His latest album, Partitioning, is a unique swirl of styles, from electronica to dance music, that provides listeners with equal opportunities to both dance and […]