“Morte de sécheresse, la fiancée de l’eau, a marié son sang à celui du ruisseau” (“Dead from drought, the bride...
Pot-pourri is a fragrant mixture of voices, beats and basslines, often enhanced with ethnic flavours, used for dancing. This musical...
“Aset” is the sound of Ibeyi walking away from a decade on XL Recordings and starting again on their own...
Slavyk built “Ko Peva Zlo Ne Misli” around a Jewish melodic theme and a Serbian proverb that translates roughly as...
Oteanankanduro, born Ato Kwamina Hasford, is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist whose name translates from Akan as “healer of snakebites.” This...
The opening line of Mezar‘s has been sung in the Taguerabt region of southwestern Algeria for generations: a diwan poem...
Terror/Cactus calls the new single “Discoteca Fugitiva,” roughly “fugitive nightclub,” a dancefloor that only exists while the music is playing....
The opening Arabic lyrics of “Leila” map a smuggled trip through a fence to Haifa. 47SOUL describes a city beautiful...
Bogotá’s The Toughers recorded “Libre Como El Viento” entirely live to 8-track analogue tape in the Colombian Andes. The track...
Reptilian conspiracy theories don’t usually get a cumbia-punk soundtrack, Son Rompe Pera wrote one anyway. “Reptilio,” the Mexico City band’s...
Helena Recalde‘s lead single from her forthcoming album A la Costa is a tribute to Esmeraldas: the green province on...
A children’s song in the Taranto dialect over a tambourine groove reworked from a traditional Calabrian ballad: that’s the architecture...