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‘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..
Andy S | “I’m not a conscious artist, I‘m just being honest”
One of Ivory Coast’s finest rising rappers is 22 years of age, has a fresh new EP out and didn’t exactly dream of becoming a rapper growing up. In fact, her sights were set entir..
‘B_U : Session 1’ | This Pan-African duo’s debut has been a decade in the making
‘Good things take time’ is in many ways a (re)tired cliché, time being the one thing that nobody seems to have—or make—these days. This is why a new tape from Johannesburg-based ..
Vagabon leaps into the electronic realm in her second self-titled LP
From her safe magic bubble, Laetitia Tamko, aka Vagabon, invites us all to find ourselves in this world by taking us on a stroll in her mesmerising sonic universe in the new self..
‘Wasa Bibi’ | Samito & Boogieman team up for new kussom inspired EP
This year Halloween will not be the same – at least musically speaking. The singer songwriter and producer Samito and the producer and founder of Live Analog Dance Rhythms (LADR)..
‘Lucid’| Love takes new shapes in ASA’s new album
The phenomenology of a love story. This could be a terse – and obviously reductive – description of Lucid, the new album of French-Nigerian singer ASA. Released via Wagram, the r..
‘Music is what I am’ | Tshegue’s genre-bending sound is addictive
Bustling with artistic talent and musical genius, new incredible artists keep flourishing from Kinshasa’s vibrant scene. In the lively Congolese capital city “everyone is a music..