Saudade is usually a backward-facing feeling, a longing for what has passed. Matu Miranda points it the other way. On...
This Daily Discovery isn’t the usual kind… These features normally just point you towards something worth hearing and watching; this...
Rising Appalachia‘s “Chance at Wholesome” is a folk song about a specific type of man: the one who performs devotion...
Cinnamon Gum is the project of Gdańsk-based Maciej Milewski, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose father spent years playing saxophone in...
Noção Rasta formed in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro’s Grajaú and spent years spreading the nickname Grajamaica for the neighbourhood,...
Attalie keeps her voice low and close to the microphone on “A Dare”, and the live session builds around it...
Percussion drives “Janjan” from the opening bar. Producer bj wnjn and drummer Jeon Iljun build an insistent rhythm with live...
“Seu corpo que disfarça a tatuagem do desejo”: a body hiding the tattoo of desire. That is where “A Cor...
“Qué Loquera”, roughly “What Madness”, is a merengue-driven satire of a planet cooking itself, and of the lovesick singer going...
“Talk about the blood.” Aja Monet says it again and again on “for the Congo,” and by the end you...
The opening of “You Only Live Twice” is one of the most famous John Barry ever wrote: violins dropping two...
Three drummers set up in Tayob J.‘s Lisbon studio and started playing something fairly ordinary. Then, as Tayob tells it,...