“At that moment in Babel Music XP, I mentioned Sofia Labropoulou, a Greek kanun player based in Vienna, who runs in her adopted city the music series Unbounded Sounds (there is an interview about this, here) and here it is the program for 2025 where she performs with one artist living in Austria and another from elsewhere. The last concert of the year will feature Shabnam Parvaresh, an Iranian artist living in Osnabrück, Germany, and Matthias Loibner (Austrian). By the way, Unbounded Sounds will be done again in 2026.
Bravo! I gave it as an example of the facts, of the current reality in Europe’s music scene — at least in the field of music connected in some way to the traditions of peoples. I’m not sure if pop music is different in that sense.”