Rafiki Records: First record label in Rwanda

In this edition, Dicken Marshall is our guest. He is the founder of Rafiki Records, Rwanda's first ever record label. Their latest album The Rafiki Sampler comes out today. It is loaded with tracks from some of the best and brightest in Rwandan music.

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Eve Jackson

Presenter

Slideshow: Behind the scenes

23/02/2012 - CULTURE

Anna Ternheim visits the roots of America

It’s a country music fan’s dream : recording in Nashville, Tennessee, with the same crew who used to work with Johnny Cash… Our studio guest is the Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim has just lived that dream, to create her fourth studio album “The Night Visitor”.

23/02/2012 - CULTURE

The Stranglers' new album will leave you breathless

On the roads for nearly forty years, British punk-rock group The Stranglers are still going strong. And today they’re on Culture to talk about their new album “Giants”, as well as their upcoming European and UK tour. They tell Catherine Nicholson why they don’t mind being described as “eclectic”, and what those mysterious lyrics to their mega-hit “Golden Brown” really mean.

22/02/2012 - CULTURE

'First Aid Kit', the swedish cure

First Aid Kit are a Swedish singing duo who can’t help you out in a medical emergency - but can soothe your furrowed brow with their Americana-inspired folk and crystal-clear harmonies. Sisters Klara and Johanna are in the studio to tell Catherine Nicholson what it’s like working with Jack White from the White Stripes, touring with your dad, and getting big in music before you’ve finished school.

21/02/2012 - CULTURE

Jimmy Robert: the artist as a material

Jimmy Robert’s work exists in a space where video, sculpture, dance, and installations meet. He even uses himself as one of his materials. The Guadeloupean-born, Brussels-based artist joins us as his new show "Langue Matérielle" opens at Paris’s Jeu de Paume gallery.

17/02/2012 - CULTURE

Brooke Fraser, Kiwi folk singer

She’s already had major chart success in her native New Zealand and next-door Australia. Now folk-popstrel Brooke Fraser is looking to crack Europe and the States with her catchy single "Something in the Water". She tells us about getting inspiration in the land of the Lord of The Rings. Also on the show: the "K-pop" music sensation straight out of Seoul, the super-sweet animated hero Kirikou, and a little taste of the Venice carnival.