Sounds of the City: Kingston, Black Ark Studios
Kingston has long been associated with the world’s most renowned reggae artists. Continue reading Sounds of the City: Kingston, Black Ark Studios
Kingston has long been associated with the world’s most renowned reggae artists. Continue reading Sounds of the City: Kingston, Black Ark Studios
Although punk has come to be seen as something intrinsically British following the success of bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash, its sound was born in New York in the mid 1970s. Continue reading Sounds of the City: No Wave, New York
Some call it diabolic music due to its dramatic dynamics, but for the Sufi population, it is a transcendental experience. Continue reading Sounds of the City: Jajouka, Sufi trance
In the early 1980s, a group of metal bands in Oslo created a more extreme version of metal, totally devoted to darkness and despair, ultimately becoming a satanic form of music. This was black metal. Continue reading Sounds of the City: Oslo Black Metal
With all eyes on Brazil this past month, our television sets have not only been dominated by the football pitch but also the sounds of samba and bossa nova. But Brazilian music has so much more to offer. Continue reading Sounds of the City: Brazil