Kristina Aspeqvist: Vodou Queen #54
How does a Swedish percussionist raised on Balkan music end up as a Vodou queen in Ghana?
That is a question Kristina Aspeqvist is more than happy to answer, in a free-flowing way. Our enthralling conversation of her professional and spiritual journey felt sometimes like jazz, sometimes like folk, sometimes transcendent. Just like her music.
KRISTINA ASPEQVIST’S LINKS
Rythm Works
Stockholm Vodou Orchestra
NiOKi Beats
REFERENCES
Vodou
Ewe people
Davul drum
Conga drum
Grammis Award
KVAST
Feirefiz
Parsifal/Percival
Ray Lema
Ray Lema and the Bulgarian Voices
Tom Sawyer
Aurelia Dey
Keta
Bengt Berger
Brekete drum
Lise-Lotte Norelius
Animism
Haitian revolution
Tibetan Buddhism
Odin
Frigg
Kakelugn/Masonry heater
Santería
Fowl
Balafon
“The White Goddess” by Robert Graves
The Pig episode of “In the Borderlands”:
Asante people
Tiamat
Kunda people
Ifá
Diakon/Deacon
Mami Wata
UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage
I Ching
Cowrie-shell divination
Accra
Greta Lindholm
Birgit Åkesson
Sufism
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