Music Meetup

They say ‘home is where the wifi is’. However, missing your family and not feeling grounded are things that artists know all about. What does family life look like when you’re travelling the world? H…

A big part of a musician’s life is spent travelling, living out of a suitcase for weeks, or sometimes months at a time. Some of them experience packing as a total hassle, while others have elevated i…

How do you maintain a sense of home when you’re on the road? Musicians go where the music takes them. It can be hard to feel at home when you change cities every day, moving from hotel room to hotel …

Spending many hours in transit, running low on proper sleep and choosing means of travel and accommodation based on budget, not many artists have ever been in a position to travel first class for fiv…

One of the many perks of going on tour is the opportunity for artists to discover new cultures. Local music and art, but also different languages, customs and traditions. Touring can also make the mo…

Our purpose in life. Some were born knowing it, some actively search for it their whole lives, others stumble upon it by accident. And while many would be hard-pressed to describe it, remembering the…

Apart from maneuvering border crossings, administrative paperwork, coping with jet lag and many other logistical issues, life on tour first and foremost provides fertile grounds for interacting with …

Faced with radical changes in the world in the last few years, many artists had to or wanted to reflect on their music, question their role in the world, or re-invent themselves. Inspired by the writ…

Although Mariá Portugal is a Bonsai Panda fan, she & Romain Bly have never met before. Guided by host Roufaida Aboutaleb and a few questions randomly picked out of a bowl, we get to know what makes t…

In this podcast, host Roufaida Aboutaleb celebrates the rich Brazilian musical culture with two musicians from São Paolo: Gabriel Milliet, singer-songwriter, film music composer and multi-instrumenta…

Guests Yanna Pelser and Esat Ekincioğlu cover a wide range of genres with their string instruments, from classical to original pop music, and from innovative Mediterranean music and to free jazz. Hos…

Yoràn Vroom, drummer & composer and Rory Ronde, guitarist, have known each other for years, but have never played as a duo before. In conversation with Roufaida Aboutaleb, they share moments of inspi…

Podcast host Roufaida Aboutaleb meets Efe Erdem and Glenn Gaddum Jr., two young adventurous musicians who are at the heart of the vibrant contemporary music scene, both great improvisers who seamless…

Podcast host Roufaida Aboutaleb meets Mexican double bassist and singer Fuensanta Méndez & singer and ud player Nawras Altaky, and we find out that the dreamy and melancholic quality of their music a…

In a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, host Leendert van der Valk catches up with Cuban pianist Ramón Valle and guitarist Reinier Baas, as they recorded an exclusive online concert at the invitat…