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‘INNER’ | Italian-Congolese producer BLCKEBY invites us to join his inner world
INNER, the debut album by BLCKEBY, better known as Marco Diamubeni, is certainly among the most captivating Italian music released amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many have prefer..
‘Standing In Line’ | David Blank leaves his comfort zone with four new singles
Milan-based, Italian-Nigerian singer-songwriter David Blank has just released his new music project. Standing in line is the first of a series of four singles spread over time th..
Moses Sumney’s ‘Cut Me’ performance is impressive
We watched it and we were blown away. Of course, it is Moses Sumney, but his Cut Me show on Colors is particularly stunning. From the sonic aesthetics to the physical one, natura..
Legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen passed away
Born in Lagos in 1940, legendary drummer and Afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen has died at the age of 79 in Paris.
Allen was a self-taught drummer, and started to play when he ..
Sabiyha releases a live session of her debut single ‘Choorile’
British-Guyanese singer Sabiyha releases a live session version of her debut single Choorile. Captured in her Croydon neighbourhood at the start of the year, the performance seiz..
‘Sondela Forever’ | Muzi drops his most ethereal offering yet
In the opening scene of Sondela Forever, it is hard to catch the walking man in the wide frame. Once-green grass, now the colour of hay although it is still growing, stretches ou..
‘Music is inside us’ | Watch DJ Katapila’s documentary
“I’m a DJ, I have to educate people, I have to entertain them” says Ishmael Abbey, aka DJ Katapila, in the opening scenes of this short documentary we came across a while ago abo..
Desire | Desire Marea channels the divine inside us in self-titled debut album
The multi-disciplinary artist Desire Marea, best known as one half of the South African queer performance art duo FAKA, has just released his solo self-titled debut album, Desire..
‘Assurance’ | Why is it still uncommon to see women behind the decks?
Gender inequality in the music scene has been a hot topic for quite some time. With some progress being made in recent years in the Eurocentric narratives, the need to find new p..
Flee’s latest project revisits Tarantism as a global aesthetic
If all we had was the written word, the ephemeral mysticism of rituals would be completely lost on us. We would run out adjectives faster than the performers of a ritual — in the..