Oteanankanduro, born Ato Kwamina Hasford, is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist whose name translates from Akan as “healer of snakebites.” This...
The opening line of Mezar‘s has been sung in the Taguerabt region of southwestern Algeria for generations: a diwan poem...
Terror/Cactus calls the new single “Discoteca Fugitiva,” roughly “fugitive nightclub,” a dancefloor that only exists while the music is playing....
The opening Arabic lyrics of “Leila” map a smuggled trip through a fence to Haifa. 47SOUL describes a city beautiful...
Bogotá’s The Toughers recorded “Libre Como El Viento” entirely live to 8-track analogue tape in the Colombian Andes. The track...
Reptilian conspiracy theories don’t usually get a cumbia-punk soundtrack, Son Rompe Pera wrote one anyway. “Reptilio,” the Mexico City band’s...
Helena Recalde‘s lead single from her forthcoming album A la Costa is a tribute to Esmeraldas: the green province on...
A children’s song in the Taranto dialect over a tambourine groove reworked from a traditional Calabrian ballad: that’s the architecture...
Lucas Santtana, the Salvador-born singer and guitarist who has spent twenty-five years pulling Brazilian music in unexpected directions, brought “Dans le...
Bru-Kin is Sylvie Nawasadio and Bart Petitjean: Brussels and Kinshasa in the name, forty years of combined practice in the...
From the village of Koungheul to Kaoma’s global Lambada phenomenon, from modelling for Jean-Paul Gaultier in Paris to her own...
Adulthood arrives with the promise of autonomy, yet the reality lands differently from the version imagined in childhood. Nana Osei...