Sunsundamba is the owl, in the Kongo ritual language that enslaved Central Africans carried into Cuba and kept alive in...
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Marco Benevento got deep into Italian library-music composers like Alessandro Alessandroni and Piero Umiliani, the people who wrote twenty instrumentals...
Progress brings back the big tree and the small axe of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Small Axe” halfway through...
Xavier Vinueza published the poem “Madre Cumbia” in his collection Si Acaso Dudar Me Salva, then adapted it into a...
In 2012, armed extremists seized the Malian northern town of Kidal, instituted a strict ban on music, and destroyed the...
“Ane Addhrai” means “go there” in the Salentino dialect, and that forward pull shapes Trevize‘s new single. Behind the name...
Yorkshire producer Jinjé built “Give A Pluck” from a series of live modular takes, running sequencer patterns through two synthesis voices...
“Malou Dwa” means “No Cure in Sight,” and what has no cure is the world itself. BROUA look around at...
Melbourne four-piece Karate Boogaloo wrote “Booger’s Bounce of Joy” for a dance they kept seeing at their gigs. There are...
On the Pull Up Riddim EP, Italian production duo Mellow Mood, made up of twins Jacopo and Lorenzo Garzia, revive...
A Yorùbá chant to Ajé, the spirit of wealth and commerce, opens OKAN‘s new single “Ajé (Owó Nlá Nlá)” before...