In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
Billed as an ‘illogical period piece’ after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his...
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from...
The Chicago native and veteran bandleader Kahil El’Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Locating...
Following sessions with Francisco Mela and William Parker for the Brooklyn-based jazz bastion 577 Records, the Tennessee transplant Zoh Amba turns closer to home on her searing and searching solo album Bhakti....
With oblique references to ‘The Anchor Song’ and ‘Hyperballad’ plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk...
This week the Planet Mu honcho Mike Paradinas returns home with reflections on family life and the 25th anniversary of Lunatic Harness plus a weekend getaway which saw him ride Icelandic horses...