Dr. Sley Light Up The Throne Photography by: SUISEKA Kingsley Tingwei Ngu, aka DR. SLEY, was born in Buea, a city located at the foot of Mount Cameroon. He was the fifth child in a Christian family of seven. More and more, he discovered music as a weapon and a tool to express his true […]
Esther Sings I Want To Live Esther Sings, born Esther Antoine in the Caribbean Country of St. Lucia, is a singer, songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and recording artist residing in New York for the past 20 years. As a youngster in her homeland St. Lucia, she started singing at the age of eight, heavily influenced by […]
Cristiana Bucureci Can’t Get You Out of My Head Collage by: Cristiana Bucureci The independent label The Sound of Art to Come presents Romanian audio-visual artist Cristiana Bucureci’s debut EP, EROS. The album is produced in collaboration with the international producers: Transglobal Underground, Prince Fatty, and Marius Costache & Lil Obeah. This is a sound […]
State of Satta Moonlight Bubaloo Photography by: Misha Warren State of Satta is a seven-piece dub-fusion band based in England, brought together by a collective love of dub and reggae. The band fuses the rhythms of one-drop and steppas, bone-shaking bass lines, and resonant vocals to create a distinct groove-driven sound. Founded from the ashes […]
Generous Thieves The Severity of Where We’re Going The Severity of Where We’re Going, the debut EP from newcomers Generous Thieves, is the culmination of an unlikely collaboration. The three-piece band wrote and recorded the five-song offering that blends reggae, hip-hop, and gospel during a time when live music was impossible. The Thieves took advantage […]
Lil Obeah From Transylvania Collage by: Cristiana Bucureci *Andrei and Cristiana Bucureci with the Lil Obeah from Transylvania LP The independent label The Sound of Art to Come launches Lil Obeah’s debut album called Lil Obeah from Transylvania. The album is made in collaboration with international producers Transglobal Underground, Dub Colossus, and Marius Costache. Additionally, […]
Soom T Yes My People IRIE’s March 2022 edition of RELEASES is here featuring Soom T’s ‘Yes My People’ from her upcoming studio album, ‘Good’, on the cover! The incredible Scottish MC Soom T, with her inimitable style and incisive flow that earned her the title of “Raggamuffin Queen,” announces her highly anticipated new album […]
Friendly Fire Music Rastamantic Riddim Friendly Fire Music’s latest release is more than a riddim album; it’s a set of three singles on the Rastamantic Riddim, a horn-driven roots riddim played live by Friendly Fire Band. To kick-off, currently, one of Jamaica’s best songwriters, Duane Stephenson, lends his plaintive voice to Tenament Yard, which resonates […]
Okuda Hiroko The Roots of Sleng Teng Fresh out of college, having graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music in 1980, Okuda Hiroko was hired by Casio, a maker of calculators. Casio was developing musical keyboards and assigned Okuda Hiroko to develop the preset rhythm patterns for these new keyboards, including the MT-40. Okuda Hiroko […]
MINI Recharged Recharged and electrifying: the classic Mini launches into the future Originating from a dedicated team at MINI Plant Oxford, sustainable driving is now being created in a classic car. An electric motor for the original Mini combines tradition with pioneering technology – all in the spirit of circular economy. If Alec Issigonis could […]
Z-man Animal Slavery Photography by: Sarah Arnold Z-man’s first-ever album appearance was in 1996 with his group 99th-Demention, self-titled, which consisted of King Maz, Young Slim, Rev-Cope, Rated R, and Z-man. The group released another album in 1998, “RSP Student,” which only featured Z-man and Young Slim on it. The following two projects were Z-man’s […]
Jimroy Brown Hungry Jimroy Alexander Brown, better known as Jimroy, was born on November 11, 1953, in Trelawny Warsop, Jamaica. He left Trelawny to live in Trenchtown with his mother and Stepfather at age ten, where he attended the Boy’s Town Primary School. During this time in his life, he visited Bob Marley on his […]