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Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro fuses meditative sounds, jazz sensibilities, folk and field recordings. Her musical practice is rooted in the study of frequency and geometry and guided by the premise that sound moves matter. Read more on Last.fm

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1. Mwsog songs are intricate arrangements for voice, strings, percussion and electronica. The music is about a beautiful future where ecclecticism and eccentrism are celebrated by hopeful folks who like stories. The band was a north wales school thing that turned out quite interesting and by 2007 had mutated into a cardiff-living five-piece with uni-sourced newcomers. From 2010 the band's Huw Evans pursued a solo career, performing and recording under the name H. Hawkline. Read more on Last.fm

The Devil's Anvil is one of those groups that could only have been signed to a label like Columbia Records in the late 1960s. At that point, the record company was desperately trying to make up for the ground and market share that it had lost during the years 1964-66, when -- with a few notable exceptions -- it had avoided rock & roll. Enter folkie-turned-rock musician/producer Felix Pappalardi, who brought The Devil's Anvil to Columbia and got them a contract to record one album. Read more on Last.fm

Abdullah Ibrahim (born 1934, Cape Town, South Africa), formerly known as Adolph Johannes Brand, and as Dollar Brand (from a popular brand of cigarettes), was a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. He first received piano lessons at the age of seven Read more on Last.fm

Oumou Sangaré (born 25 February 1968 in Bamako) is a Malian wassoulou musician, sometime referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou". Wassoulou is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash. Many of Sangaré's songs concern love and marriage, especially freedom of choice in marriage. Her 1989 Moussoulou album was an unprecedented West African hit. In 1995, she toured with Baaba Maal, Femi Kuti and Boukman Eksperyans. Read more on Last.fm

Space Afrika is the live hardware project of Josh Inyang and Josh Reid, two friends from high school. With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dub-scapes, Space Afrika harness ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early '90s Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition—like dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future. Friends for almost two decades, the two Joshuas formed Space Afrika after years of listening to music together Read more on Last.fm

Operating beneath the surface of London's underground, feeo, aka Theodora Laird, layers powerful Beth Gibbons-esque vocals over muggy, quietly psychedelic noise and ambience. Capturing the rainy nostalgia of day zero trip-hop and the humid sensuality of classic soul twinned with oily production. Somewhere between Mica Levi and Astrid Sonne, but gestures to different destinations, on the one hand recalling the theatrics of Kate Bush, on the other embracing the febrile dynamics and tension of Klein’s most elusive work. Read more on Last.fm

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Jaylah Ji’mya Hickmon, better known as her stage name Doechii (formerly stylized as iamdoechii) was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. Doechii started out as a YouTuber, starting by posting a variety of videos, including vlogs and even some music. She released her first single in 2018 titled "Girls" and after the success of the first song decided to release the single "Spookie Coochie" in 2019. Some months after the release of those songs, Doechii's Coven Music Session, Vol. Read more on Last.fm