Tag: Girma Yifrashewa

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and distilled experiences of their youth, mining the nineties for shreds of old band practices and the digitised squibs and pixelated bits which made up the formative years...

After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb'een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative storytelling, the Lebanese composer Youmna Saba left Beirut and settled in Paris, where her research project Taïma' led to a slew of collaborations and the first sound...