In a music industry increasingly dominated by algorithms, Beyond the Algorithm offers a different way of discovering music: a compilation curated...
“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,...
On 1 August 2025, Sara Curruchich opened the 25th Festival du Bout du Monde on the Prairie de Landaoudec in...
“We’re not alone, Ocotillo,” Julia Zivic sings on “Ocotillo,” addressing a desert plant that survives where almost nothing does. Ghost...
Kasinda wrote “This Life” in Accra and recorded it in Melbourne, where she lives. It is a reggae song led...
Sunsundamba is the owl, in the Kongo ritual language that enslaved Central Africans carried into Cuba and kept alive in...
“Monte” is a louder, brighter turn for Helena Recalde. The Ecuadorian bassist, singer and composer, long settled in France, usually...
Marco Benevento got deep into Italian library-music composers like Alessandro Alessandroni and Piero Umiliani, the people who wrote twenty instrumentals...
Progress brings back the big tree and the small axe of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Small Axe” halfway through...