Ammar Kalia

Various Artists – An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World, Part 2 Since 2015, Berlin-based label Habibi Funk has carved out a...

Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky For every raga there is a time. Traditionally, the Indian classical form is composed with a specific...

Mabe Fratti Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos? With most of the world swiftly entering lockdown in early 2020, few of us could say we...

Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings has spent the best part of the last decade using his improvised music as a powerful conduit for...

Ten-strong jazz group Nubiyan Twist have spent the past five years honing themselves as a creative vehicle for collaborative expression....

Jaubi – Nafs at Peace The Pakistani improvisational quartet Jaubi gained international recognition with 2020’s Ragas from Lahore LP, a...

Tony Allen – There Is No End One of the defining characteristics of the late Tony Allen’s drumming was his capacity to switch register at...

Guedra Guedra Vexillology From the spiritual polyrhythms of gnawa to the looping vocalisations of Sufism and the percussive tessellations...

Femi Kuti and Made Kuti – Legacy+ Much like the Marleys and reggae, the Ali Khans and Sufism or the Shankars and raga, Fela Kuti’s family...

Farhot – Kabul Fire Volume 2 For producer Farhot, the cut-and-paste method of sampling in hip-hop serves as an apt symbol for the...

10. Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes – Heritage of the Invisible II This is a heavy record in every sense. Aquiles Navarro’s synths are...

Moses Sumney’s music is often two things at once. Intimate yet communal, spiritual yet lustful, his piercingly clear falsetto is...

Contento – Lo Bueno Está Aquí In the 1960s, salsa’s sprightly piano melodies, clave rhythms and syncopated percussion took off in New...

Tenderlonious/Jaubi – Ragas from Lahore Ever since the likes of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry came upon the tantric mantras...

Spaza – Uprize! A heaviness permeated the summer, one laden with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the consequences...

Babe, Terror – Horizogon 4/5 "I thought of this as a soundtrack from an apocalyptic São Paulo,” says Claudio Szynkier, AKA electronic...

Arriving at Birch, you would be forgiven for thinking you were headed to a service station. Close enough to the M25 that the constant...

Duma – Duma Alongside the burgeoning experimental electronic scene in east Africa is a small but committed underground of metal bands,...

Coming to prominence in 2016 as one half of jazz duo Yussef Kamaal, producer and pianist Kamaal Williams spearheaded the London-based...

Keleketla! – Keleketla! Call and response is a key form in music, from west African drum circles to jazz and hip-hop. It’s a means of...