“Chakabacunga” is a cumbia single from Italian singer, guitarist and composer Arnaldo Prete, now living in Brussels. He calls it...
“Drop Top” opens on slow Hammond chords, a low guitar figure and drums at mid tempo. It is the second...
The live version of “Shej sukár” at Fonó Budai Zeneház in Budapest shows BashElán on home ground, playing the Roma...
A one-take cut to lacquer at Metropolis. Kokoroko record “Express Your Love” straight to vinyl, folding a 1970s soul plea...
“Alpha & Omega” is the title track from Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers’ brand-new four-song Alpha & Omega EP,...
Colonial borders cut Tuareg ancestral territory into Mali, Algeria, Libya and Niger. On Tinariwen’s “Imidiwan Takyadam”, that history is present...
Sea-facing devotion, sung in a circle. A ciranda is a roda dance-song from the coast of north-eastern Brazil, and on...
The late Balinese composer I Made Subandi(Subandi) takes “Cecek Megelut”, a standard piece from the gender wayang repertoire, and rewrites...
“dɔ me a bra” is a plea to a lover to come back home, after the voice in the poem...
New Caledonia carries two histories: French penal colony from 1864, indigenous Kanak territory for millennia before. Marcus Gad, a roots...
Mbira Renaissance Band open “Zvichapera” almost in a whisper and build it up with mbira, brass, drum kit and full...
“Ambeh” is a Kuwaiti Arabic exclamation roughly meaning “really?” or “seriously?”, and here it turns into a full-on put-down in...