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 LINKS

https://www.musikcentrumost.se/artist/nioki-beats

Vodou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodún

Ewe people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_people?variant=zh-cn

Davul drum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davul

Conga drum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conga

Grammis Award

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammis

KVAST

https://kvast.org

Feirefiz

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feirefiz

Parsifal/Percival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival

Ray Lema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lema

Ray Lema and the Bulgarian Voices

https://www.allmusic.com/album/bulgarian-voices-mw0001008398

Tom Sawyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer

Aurelia Dey

https://www.aureliadey.com

Keta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keta

Bengt Berger

https://www.instagram.com/bengtberger/

Brekete drum

http://www.rythmworks.se/Produkt-filer/brekete.html

Lise-Lotte Norelius

https://www.lise-lottenorelius.se

Animism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

Haitian revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution

Tibetan Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism

Odin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

Frigg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

Kakelugn/Masonry heater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater

Santería

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santería

Fowl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowl

Balafon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balafon

The White Goddess by Robert Graves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Goddess

The Pig episode of In the Borderlands

https://www.intheborderlands.com/2021/12/21/christmas-yuletide-special-the-pig-4/

Asante people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asante_people

Tiamat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat

Kunda people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunda_people

Ifá

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifá

Diakon/Deacon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon

Mami Wata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mami_Wata

UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Lists

I Ching

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

Cowrie-shell divination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowrie-shell_divination

Accra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra

Greta Lindholm

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Lindholm

Birgit Åkesson

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit_Åkesson

Sufism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism