Tag: Corey Fogel

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With the release of her debut album just days before her 29th birthday, Tems already feels like something of the grand dame of Afropop. Even more than Tiwa Savage, who provided backing vocals for the likes of George Michael, Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan before graduating from the Berklee College of Music, it is Tems the self-starter with...

From the wobbly revolutions of the title track which opens What Is Not Strange?, the composer and synthesist Tashi Wada remains firmly committed to the bit, a smudged exploration of the undersides of things which elides the abstract and personal, the natural by way of foliage or more particularly satoyama, a Japanese term for the liminal zone between arable...

Back on the trail with their duffle bags and nets like a gang of nocturnal lepidopterists, the trio of Oren Ambarchi on guitar, Johan Berthling on bass and Andreas Werliin on drums pick up pretty much where their first Ghosted album left off, replacing its kosmische chug and post-rock fabrics with something a little more spectral. Switching out the...