Tag: Naomi Alligator

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Summoning spectres to light the present, on the crackling centrepiece to her new album Jazz Codes the songwriter and spoken word poet Moor Mother reaches back beyond the birth of the form to the Fisk Jubilee Singers or to misters Tambo and Bones, under the limelights of Broadway or out there on the Mississippi River, broaching the devious and...

Described as an experiment in immediacy, back in 2020 the Portland-based label Sahel Sounds doubled down on its commitment to the music of the Southern Sahara with its searing blend of psychedelic jams, crackling choral textures, roiling dub rhythms, and boisterous desert blues. Familiar faces like Etran de L'Aïr and the Nigerien techno pioneer Hama plus newcomers from Bounaly...

On an album of trenchant lyricism and cultural cross-pollination, the singer Myriam Gendron reinterprets traditional music from the United States, France, and Quebec. Reworking old folk songs with a contemporary resonance, combining originals with the half-torn remnants of the past, her record Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found features contributions from Bill Nace on guitar, Chris...