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...
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to...
After lending his lusty baritone to the works of Lou Reed and Dylan Thomas on the jazzily contemplative Free and adopting the role of rapporteur alongside the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, this...
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....
Fresh from her work on the groundbreaking supernatural film drama Atlantics, Fatima Al Qadiri returns to Hyperdub with Medieval Femme, a darkly romantic song cycle inspired by the classical poems of Arab...
The Spanish word ‘mequetrefe’, which roughly translates as ‘good-for-nothing’, can be applied equally to a lousy person or a shoddy product and carries other connotations, of nosiness, boisterousness, a sort of persistent...