Best of the Soundcheck Podcast 2025, Part 1
Hear music by Portuguese fado singer Carminho; Grammy-winning classical quartet Third Coast Percussion performing music written for them by the late Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain; and Ethiopian-born singer and bandleader Meklit’s blend of jazz, pop, and soul. Also, music from Chicago-formed, New York-based American rock band Horsegirl; and the quartet Les Égarés, who are Ballaké Sissoko (kora) and Vincent Segal (cello) and Vincent Peirani (accordion) and Émile Parisien (sax). They combine chamber music, French chanson, West African folk, and jazz in a fluid and “wandering” mix of styles.
Set list:
ARTIST: Les Égarés
WORK: Esperanza [1:53]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, March 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on the album Les Égarés
ARTIST: Meklit
WORK: Ambassel [5:44]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, October 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: This performance not commercially available. The song appears on the album A Piece of Infinity
ARTIST: Horsegirl
WORK: 2468 [3:08]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Feb. 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on the album Phonetics On and On
ARTIST: Carminho
WORK: Canção à ausente [3:47]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Nov. 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on the album Eu vou Morrer de Amor ou Resistir
ARTIST: Third Coast Percussion, Salar Nader
WORK: Zakir Hussain: Murmurs in Time, 2nd mvmt [10:49]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Feb. 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Standard Stoppages (Cedille Records)
ARTIST: Les Égarés
WORK: Esperanza [4:47]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, March 2025
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on the album Les Égarés
