Songs from April Blossoms (KKV, 2021) is a 4-track EP featuring electronic remixes of traditional Palestinian lullabies and children songs originally performed and released on cassette by the iconic Palestinian singer Rim Banna in 1995 (New Moon / Qamar Abu Lila).

With the single “Trøstevise” (Comforting Song) the Randi Tytingvåg Trio sets the mood for their coming album with a full acoustic sound influenced by folk, jazz and the singer-songwriter tradition.

The Knut Reiersrud Band and KORK (Norwegian Radio Orchestra) have had “conversations with Dvorak and Beethoven”, resulting in an album titled “A New World".

A new generation of female artists from Palestine is stepping up in the wake of Rim Banna..

The band from Bodø called “Elsk” [Love] releases a CD with ballads and heavy rock.With innovative music, the band from Bodø, serves us a narrative about ourselves and the Easter drama..

Comforting soundtrack for sorrowful times.Meditations for Easter and the Holy Week on new album with Øyvind Kristiansen and Jonas Kilmork Vemøy.

Tania Saleh has recorded a daring album she has called “10 A.D.” (10 YEARS AFTER DIVORCE).Lebanese artist and songwriter Tania Saleh’s new album celebrates and explores the conditions for women from different angles, particularly the reality a divorced woman must deal with in a country such as Lebanon.The right to decide over one’s own body, midlife crises, vanity, hyper consumerism, social pressure, addiction to the virtual world and the injustice of the patriarchal Middle East – these are all topics she dives into in her lyrics.

64 songs composed and performed by Mahsa Vahdat.She is one of the most important Persian artists and most influential Iranian women in our time.Through her many albums and her worldwide performances during more than 25 years she has developed her repertoire of music and her own characteristic style of singing.

“Triptykon” [Triptych] is the title of a three-song EP the popular choir SKRUK is releasing this week.All three are prayers for soothing sweaty souls as each and every one of us can feel that we are exerting our spiritual muscles so hard in our struggle for balance in these most difficult of times.

No instrument is better at creating the Christmas spirit than the human voice.On the new Christmas album “Lengt etter lys” [Longing for light] the ensemble PUST (Breathe) demonstrates this convincingly..

European song treasures in Norwegian.With his new album Jørn Simen Øverli gives us a shortcut into recent European cultural history.