Domiziano Maselli / Tommaso Rolando - Enjoy Country Music (Torto Editions)
Tommaso and Domiziano met at the release party for Emilio Pozzolini's latest album, thanks to Emilio's invitation. Since that concert, the duo has shared common ground—stages, rehearsal spaces, video calls—and a shared goal: developing a genuine and personal musical vocabulary. Despite their different backgrounds and generational gap, they are united by a shared taste and a desire to explore the depths of low frequencies, the vibrational aspects of sound, and improvisation as a means of transcending consciousness rather than showcasing virtuosity.
Grup Ses & Gökalp K - Grup Ses & Gökalp K (Discrepant)
Istanbul-based producers Grup Ses and Gökalp K present their collaborative album on SOUK Records, showcasing a distinctive fusion of musical styles such as hip hop, grime, dubstep, and jungle. Two years in the making, their self-titled album features contributions from Cologne-based multi- instrumentalist Elektro Hafız, Marseille-based DJ Syr from Scratch Bandits Duo and Ethnique Punch, a Turkish MC & producer now based in Bremen.
Jako Maron - Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
When Jako Maron reimagined Réunion island's politically-charged maloya sound on
The electro Maloya experiments of Jako Maron, he focused on the genre's distinctive, revolutionary rhythms. Electro-plating the call-and-response thuds, he used the language of techno to upset the expected template, disrupting maloya's 6/8 pulse with modular bleeps and Roland kicks. He takes a different approach on
Mahavélouz, focusing on the bobre, traditional maloya's only melodic instrument, a long bow amplified by a calabash that's known as the berimbau in Brazil.
Kaito Winse - Reele Bumbou (Zephyrus Records)
With a voice as commanding and enchanting as an opera performance, Kaito's masterful scansion and storytelling draw the listener into timeless truths. His connection with French writer and playwright Tartar(e) has only sharpened his ability to captivate through rhythm and word. Armed with a versatile skillset, he plays an array of instruments—calabash, mouth bow, Peul flute, toutlé flute, and the tama, a drum known for mimicking human speech.
Lucrecia Dalt - cosa rara (RVNG Intl.)
A prolific and limitless musician, performer, composer, and sound artist, Lucrecia Dalt challenges both genre and form, pulling apart familiar elements of pop and experimental music and reassembling them in unexpected ways.
Mdou Moctar - Tears of Injustice (Matador Records UK)
Tears of Injustice is the acoustic version of
Funeral For Justice. If
Funeral For Justice was the sound of outrage,
Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is
Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original.
