Tag: Jeremiah Chiu

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Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more elaborate experiments of the late sixties, where he constructed kinetic light sculptures with Len Lye and devised performances with the dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, for seven...

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...

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, and where Latin figures from Bad Bunny and Rosalía to Lucrecia Dalt and Mabe Fratti stretched out at the experimental borders of pop. This was the year of...