Ammar Kalia

“I’m constantly searching and pushing,” New York-based saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis says. “I don’t live my life by the...

Every few years, there is a flurry of excitement as an artist is “rediscovered”. Old cassettes, records and master tapes are dusted off...

At 17, Riaz Bacchus was DJing on pirate radio stations in London when he stumbled on a genre of music that seemed to perfectly express...

Ahmed Ben Ali – Subhana From Maha’s 80s Egyptian orchestral pop to Fadoul’s 70s Moroccan psych-funk, independent label Habibi Funk has...

Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak On their debut album, Israeli bandleader Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood...

Seventy hours into the birth of his first child, Lewis was told that his wife needed to be rushed into surgery for an emergency...

Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights...

Bongeziwe Mabandla – amaXesha Over the past decade, South African singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla has been reimagining Xhosa folk...

The muse can be a fickle thing to find, but Nida Manzoor’s inspiration has always been close to home. “My sister, Sanya, is only a year...

The six years since the release of Leslie Feist’s last album, Pleasure, have been momentous ones for the Canadian singer-songwriter. She...