Ammar Kalia

Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar – Shruti Dances Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators....

Early 00s pop TV was fertile ground for hyperactive performances. From the flirty cheek of TMi to the saccharine staging of CD:UK,...

Joe Rainey – Niineta The drum is central to powwow music. Singers beat in unison on its skin as their voices overlap with vibrato-laden...

Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker Few singers have better mirrored the mercurial sound of dub than Horace Andy. Finding prominence with a...

The last time I saw Sean Bowie, AKA Yves Tumor, they were shirtless and writhing on stage, wreathed in dry ice. Their tall frame paced...

Sélène Saint-Aimé: Potomitan In Haitian Vodou, the potomitan is the central pillar that holds up the temple. At its base is where ritual...

Earlier this month, Streatham rapper Dave closed the Brit awards wielding an electric guitar that shot flames out of its neck while he...

Debit – The Long Count There is an uncanniness in listening to a musical instrument you have never heard being played for the first time....

10. Sarah Haras - Mirage Bahraini experimental producer Sarah Haras meanders between ambience and aggression on Mirage, warping the...

Various Artists – Tokyo Glow Japanese city pop is an enigmatic genre. Emerging in the late 1970s and peaking in popularity throughout the...

Chicago has long been a home for the experimental fringes of improvised music. Ever since free jazz pianist Muhal Richard Abrams...

In the 18 months since pioneering Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen died, the extent of his legacy has become increasingly apparent. Posthumous...

Juçara Marçal – Delta Estácio Blues Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition – his 2016 opus on exorcising inner demons via...

Malcolm Jiyane – Umdali Ever since Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim formed the Jazz Epistles in the 1950s, South Africa’s jazz...

Quantic and Nidia Góngora – Almas Conectadas Hailing from Timbiquí, a small gold-panning community on the Pacific coast of Colombia, folk...

This year’s summer seems to have passed with only a glimpse of sun and celebration. As Covid squeezed the usual British festival season...

Native Soul – Teenage Dreams House music, and the glorious tension between its on-beat and its syncopated elements, has long been a sound...

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...