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Sufyvn | The Sudanese electronic producer exploring the new frontiers of IDM
The cultural, artistic and social narratives of distant countries such as Sudan are always so inaccurate and imbued with a post-colonial notch that it is very easy to get the wro..
Interview with Deena Abdelwahed | The female underground electronic sound of Tunisia
You know that amazing feeling when you listen to a new song and the music just fills you, you need to listen to it ‘on repeat’ and it stays with you even when the track is over. ..
Azulejos by Populous | Digital cumbia and sense of civic duty
Ocean, gold, colour, cities, dance, movement, rhythm: these elements are the ethos of Popolous’ new album, Azulejos. After two months in Lisbon the Italian producer released a re..
Till Art Do Us Apart | Three creative couples open up to Griot
In a world populated by single individuals, where greed reigns and romance is literally dead, we met some of the hottest personalities in Paris to ask them what it’s like to work..
Motherland ▷ Vhelade
Sardinia is a magic, powerful land with a millenary history that is often negletced. Vhelade is an artist who comes from this land and also from Congo. Her childhood and adolesce..
Klein, the unorthodox female producer we were all waiting for
Klein’s music is mad. She is a real force of nature and like no other artist she is pushing boundaries, becoming a new role model for black female producers. And I bet she’s also..
Motherland ▷ David Blank
In the first episode of Motherland ▷ we meet David Blank, Italian Nigerian singer-songwriter.
Born and raised in Italy, David moved to London at the age of 16. For the past th..
Victor Ehikhamenor on the first Nigerian Pavilion at Venice Biennale and Damien Hirst’s cultural appropriation
How about now? is the title of the first ever Nigerian pavilion at the 57th edition of Venice Biennale. “It was about time”, I’m tempted to say. If we think that only eight Afric..
Art Afrique at the Louis Vuitton Fondation | Discussing African art, Italy and monkey noises with Lilian Thuram
As the years go by, it feels as if Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien was blessed by time with that same never-aging look he had when playing with Blues, Parma, Juventus and France. World..
Reorient Magazine | Joobin Bekhrad and the challenge of promoting contemporary Iranian art
Joobin Bekhrad is the super cool kind of guy everyone would like to meet and have a conversation with. Well, we’re glad to say we did. Other than being an award winning writer an..