It’s probably about time we retired that nonsense about the pram in the hall. Sure, having a baby will upend your priorities, monopolise your me-time and severely restrict your capacity for hedonistic adventure. But Sessa’s magical third album is further proof that becoming a parent can enhance rather than obstruct your art.
When we first clapped eyes on Sergio Sayeg AKA Sessa, via the back cover of his striking 2019 debut album, he was stripped to the waist and locked in a disconcertingly passionate embrace with an equally half-naked woman. As for the subject matter, one song urged the object of his affections to “me fode de vez” (“fuck me once and for all”), while another was simply entitled “Orgia” (no translation required).
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Cheikh Lô has never quite enjoyed the fame of his fellow Senegalese superstars, like his early patron Youssou N’Dour or Baaba Maal, perhaps because of his slower output. Maame is his first album in a decade. It was brought to World Circuit by the label’s former owner, Nick Gold, who deploys the strictest quality control in the business, so the omens were promising.
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for granted the special magic of 
Few guitarists can transform a single note into a melody that sings, burns and heals the way Carlos Santana can. This special collection of live performances-captured from rare and legendary radio broadcasts spanning key moments of his career-offers a front-row seat to the artistry of one of music’s true visionaries.
A kick drum stitched from bottle tops, a babatone that functions like a well-worn engine, and warm voices that rise together. This is the sound of Malawi’s talented 
A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo explorations and full ensemble blow-outs, 
For nearly two decades, Lebanese experimental musicians and composers Raed Yassin and Paed Conca have been developing a thrilling hybrid of Arabic working-class popular music and psych-adjacent free jazz as 
In 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer 
Since the prime time of Bossa Nova in the late ’50s and early to mid-’60s, Brazilian music was one of the rare ones that was consistently able to cross the language barriers around the world, often bringing us some incredible music full of emotional intensity and intricate musicianship that cannot do anything else but transcend borders.
To record their fourth album Krok, the members of 
Mon Laferte is one of Latin music’s great shape- shifters. The 14 tracks on FEMME FATALE, her followup to the experimental rhythm collision of 2023’s 
Son of renowned Brazilian percussionist Bosco de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira, aka 
Like many a listener, Resonance founder George Klabin was bewitched when he heard Milton Nascimento’s singing voice for the first time. Introduced to him by Airto and Flora Purim when they were playing at a small NYC club, Klabin learned that the young man was in town to record at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary New Jersey studio. Issued in 1969 on CTI Records, the resultant album was Courage, a classic-in-the-making (Klabin’s all-time favourite, in fact) featuring Herbie Hancock and orchestral arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Now, fifty-six years after its release, renowned clarinetist 
Just when you think you’ve discovered all the greats from the heyday of Turkish psych, along comes a rare nugget like this. Çetin Bükey was a saxophonist/flautist known for composing film scores, who also played on Barış Manço’s 1974 single ‘Bir Bahar Akşamı’.
Chavela Vargas, the great Costa Rican-Mexican ranchera singer, once asked, “¿Cómo será de bella la muerte que nadie ha vuelto de allá?” (“How beautiful must death be that no one has returned from it?”) At a 2024 residency at the home of Vargas, one of the greatest musicians ever to speak on the subject, Silvana Estrada watched interviews with the late singer and wrote to understand her own grief.