Adulthood arrives with the promise of autonomy, yet the reality lands differently from the version imagined in childhood. Nana Osei...
Paraguayan-born, Montréal-based producer Kilombo cut his teeth in a squat without electricity or running water, building a production style from...
Bülows Kvartett have spent years tracing the fiddle lines of Gössa Anders Andersson, a musician from Orsa in the Dalarna...
“Sahari Köd” draws on a Chadian musical tradition so rarely heard outside its region of origin that AfrotroniX describes it...
“Qué manera de quererte mal, qué manera de quererme mal.” Micaela Vita returns to this refrain throughout “Amor Tecnócrata”, a song...
“Pandeiretas a tocar!” The call goes out and the whole track lifts. Baiuca and Mondra take a traditional Galician melody...
In Recife’s Pina neighbourhood, a luxury avenue runs parallel to the Bode community. One side: tower blocks, hotels, restaurants. The...
Anthony Joseph took the title of his 2006 Afrofuturist novel and built a track around it. The arrangement features dub...
The “Hanagasa Ondo” is Yamagata Prefecture’s defining folk song, its roots traced back to the working-class culture of the Murayama...
Emotional numbness as a political condition: that is the territory Kefaya and Elaha Soroor open on “Cold & Heavy –...
Racines, the Italy-based electronic duo of producer Rokeya and singer-songwriter Anissa Gouizi, make their recorded debut with “Market Miracolo”, a...
Yaité Ramos Rodriguez has spent five albums and a decade as La Dame Blanche building one of the sharpest live-wire...