The Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) are a Romance ethnic group native to the Balkans. Traditionally they live in northern and central Greece, Romania, central and southern Albania, North Macedonia, south-western Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia with the Dalmatic Mountains, Slovenia with the Istrian Peninsula, and all Serbia.

For this special episode of our Destinations series, we travel to Kosovo, Albania and the Republic of North Macedonia to find out more about Tallava – a music genre originating from the Roma and Ashkali communities. Tallava is becoming increasingly popular in Albania and North Macedonia. It is identified as part of the wider pop-folk genre of the Southeastern Europe, which includes "chalga" from Bulgaria, "skiladiko" from Greece, "manele" from Romania, and "turbo-folk" from Serbia. Presented...

This is the second part of our special episode focused on Romanian jazz music from the past, as well as from the present. On this episode we have as a guest Romanian saxophonist Mihai Iordache, a founding member and creative force behind the Romanian band Sarmalele Reci and who works under his own jazz-funk ensemble Iordache. Track listings and more info available on our website.

This first episode features music from important artists that contributed to the foundation of Romanian jazz: Harry Tavitian and his various projects, Johhny Răducanu, Dan Mândrilă, Marius Popp, Corneliu Stroe, Paul Weiner Quartet, Richard Oschanitzky.

Rebetiko (plural rebetika), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards. Rebetiko briefly can be described as the urban popular song of the Greeks, especially the poorest, from the late 19th century to the 1950s. In 2017 rebetiko was added in the...