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Rapskallion is an Australian gypsy folk group formed in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia. They describe themselves as "a vaudevillian carnivalesque shotgun marriage between Tom Waits and Edith Piaf." The group's first LP, One Up for the Little Man, was released independently in 2009. The album spawned a number of singles, seeing airtime on Australian alternative radio station, Triple J. Their second release, a 10-track LP entitled Vagabond King debuted a number of significant line-up changes for the group. The album was launched at the 2012 National Folk Festival in Canberra, with a full release scheduled for later in the year. Maintaining...

Karima Skalli… a voice…   And the enchantment of a talent   The smoothness  by no means has address if not among the elected officials of art, the  elected officials of which a voice that enchant so much by her velvety stamp as by the delicacy that  emanates from it… the voice of  the Moroccan professional singer Karima Skalli.   This diva of the Moroccan song succeeded to infiltrate , gently but well strongly, in an artistic  Arabic space similar to a minefield as well by the difficulties of infiltrating there  as by the "bombs" that furrow it that and there.   And yet,...