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...
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...