The first seconds of “States of Matter” belong to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, East London: stallholders’ calls, haggling and...
Basajan close their Live on KEXP session with “Waas”, the three-minute instrumental that also ends their debut album Béwara. KEXP,...
Over a syncopated beat lightly touched by amapiano, The Joy stack five voices into a warning for a young woman...
Jultrane discovered Đà Nẵng, the port city on Vietnam’s central coast, in 2025 and felt an immediate bond with the...
Sarkodie frames “Deja Vu” as a message to Ama, a lover who has stopped answering his calls: “so I put...
“Ardor” is the last of ten pieces on The Song of the Phoenix, a debut album that follows the phoenix...
A fragment of Mohamed Abdel Wahab’s voice, recorded for the 1933 Egyptian musical al-Warda al-Baida (The White Rose), runs through...
Cuatro Piraguas wrote “Susurra el Viento” for the days when their patience runs thin, in their music and in...
Live drums carry “Dembe Dembe”, stacked by Nyonjo into a heavy, rolling groove. He played and recorded every one of...
Deli Teli have reached back more than sixty years for their latest single. “San Theo” (Σαν θεό) is the Marseille...
El Far3i wrote “Rayha” with fatherhood on his mind. He promises his child they’ll wake the plants together when the...
A lively cumbia rhythm keeps “Tu Marea” moving while La Yegros and Natalia Doco sing about leaving a lover whose...