Ammar Kalia

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...

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...