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Good news: Money delivered to Ammasu village in Ghana!

2023-03-10 Now she has been there, see about it here! This is Amma Kyerenmaa who sings You Are So...

Incredible reviews of C&E-stuff and more from Raul da Gama

2018-05-01 Raul da Gama has been writing fantastic reviews of a lot of the stuff we are doing. It's...

“Praise Drumming” w Bitter Funeral Beer Band suddenly on CD!

2017-10-02 A knock on my door and suddenly two boxes arrived from Dragon Records with the CD release of...

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2017-02-18 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

“EDITH” ON TOUR – video with updated sound uploaded

2016-11-25   Beches Indian Brew on tour in India and Sweden during 2016. Various versions of Edith, a piece...

Beches Indian Brew – Swedish tour concluded – wonderful response

2016-11-05 Thank you all for a wonderful tour. We had full houses in Stockholm and Umeå and feel very...

Umeå Jazz Festival – from the press conference

2016-09-20 Umeå is where we conclude our tour for the Akkarai Sisters and for Beches Indian Brew. Today this...

Senior master drummer Doe Kushiator (Ghana) joins Beches Indian Brew

2016-09-11 In the seventies, Doe Kushiator was one of my teachers of Ewe drumming in Ghana. Since then he has...

“Ammasu – an anthropological narrative” is back, as are the photos!

2015-08-20 The Ammasu story, narrated by Prudence Woodford-Berger as well as the slide shows with photos from Ammasu, Ghana...

Spjärnsvallet goes vinyl – release concerts

2015-05-09 The Gothenburg label Omlott has licensed Again and Again and is releasing a vinyl version with their own cover art on May...

Live in Göteborg-Lund-Stockholm this weekend

2014-10-02 Torkel Rasmusson med Berger-Bellnäs på Stadsbiblioteket vid Götaplatsen på fredag kl 18. Beches Brew (very) BIG på Mejeriets...

Country & Eastern on iTunes

2014-07-14 We have had a lot of problems getting correct titles and artists on iTunes for our productions but...

Songlines: NOW is one of the best albums of the last 6 months!

2014-07-07 Next chance to hear Ellika Solo Rafael is at Stockholm Folk Festival on August 8. If you can't...

Ellika Solo Rafael wins “Folk Music Group of the Year”!

2014-02-21 In Umeå tonight they have a fair chance of being voted Folk Music of the Year". Let's hope...

Much praise for NOW

2013-11-07 "The Ellika, Solo, Rafael album has been awarded Songlines' 'Top of the World' in our Jan/Feb issue (on sale 6th Dec)"...

On Wednesday September 11 at 8 pm: Release/concert/party at Mosebacke

2013-09-09 Mexican master percussionist Rafael Sida has joined swedish-senegalese duo Ellika and Solo for the brilliant new album NOW....

Our new albums are in the mail today!

2013-08-07 Here is a link to the newsletter:

Country & Eastern News – may 2012

2012-05-10 Hectic days for Country & Eastern: A few days after the end of the Bible we are heavily...