Land of Kush is a Canadian collective of 20-ish musicians, headed by Sam Shalabi (Egyptian born in Lybia, raised in Canada), playing a combination of free jazz, Arabic classical, postpunk and pan-global folk music. Their last album from 2013 emanated "heady optimism inspired by the Arab Spring, and Shalabi has spent much of the last […]

Contemporary folk played by the Slovenian band is "densely written and meticulously plotted music, played live on acoustic instruments, apparently without any overdubs", the Guardian states. "The songs (some of them 15 minutes long) are episodic, dreamlike voyages – qawwali-style vocal wailing and medieval drones mutate into free-jazz freakouts; steampunk techno (played on pots, pans […]