Damascus has been called the City of Jasmine for as long as anyone can remember. French-Algerian electronic collective Acid Arab...
Halfway through HOPE!!, an album stacked with guests of the likes of Pharrell, Davido, and Nile Rodgers, Angélique Kidjo is...
“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...