“Life in Warp,” the debut album from A lake by the mõõn, a.k.a. Duarte Eduardo, is an opportunity to rethink what it means to be “socially conscious” when it comes to music. In what strikes the ear first as swathes of digitally manipulated noise and vaguely industrial, futuristic electronic free-balling, “Life in Warp” affords its … Continue reading Wildlife Electronica: A Review Of A Lake By The Moon’s ‘Life In Warp’
This article was written by Moses Abeka and originally published on the musicinafrica.net webpage under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialCC BY-NC licence on June 10th 2023. Sudan’s musical traditions have largely been informed by Arabic and Muslim traditions. As a country that has always subscribed to stricter interpretations of Islamic law, music in Sudan has generally … Continue reading Women in Sudanese music
This article was written by Benjamin Ashraf and originally published by The New Arab. In what became a cult classic of musicology, Simon Reynolds’s Retromania describes a Western culture intent on self-cannibalism. Exhausted by consumerism and technological acceleration, the book claims the West has become a Zeit without a Geist; where the recurrence of older … Continue reading Retromania and resistance: Record label MaJazz Project reissues new dawn for unsung Palestinian pioneers
