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...
Ras Rabbi and Rafat Ampadu come together on “Keep On Groovin'”, a roots and conscious reggae single released on 30...
Mondocane recorded an ayahuasca ceremony in the Pacaya Samiria reserve in the Peruvian Amazon in 2021, asked permission from the...
Bombo legüero, tambor chico from candombe and Brazilian berimbau drive “Chala & Brasa”, the new single from Tremor and the...