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The USA and Ghana, among others, have hosted semi-virtual award events in respect of SOPs. In Uganda, promoters and bar owners continue to engage government on how they can resume operations without jeopardizing the gains made in fighting the pandemic. According to Emma Carlos Mulondo, a musicians’ manager, festivals and events can be well- planned in respect of SOPs. He added that organizers can get venues that can accommodate 200 people, and still guarantee a return on investment. According to Mulondo, organizers will be required to seek permission and those that don’t comply shall be ...

Patch Notes: Body Meat Patch Notes: Body Meat A hybrid performance with drums, vocals and electronics from the genre-bending US artist. Body Meat is the solo project of Christopher Taylor, a US multi-instrumentalist and producer whose experimental pop music draws on a wide variety of influences, from the exploratory footwork of Jlin and African club sounds of the Nyege Nyege label, to Chicago drill duo Sicko Mobb and legendary R&B act Boyz II Men. On this episode of Patch Notes, Taylor gives us an insight into the process that went into his latest EP Year of the Orc, which was written and rec...

Bandcamp / Buy Caterina Barbieri recently recruited a diverse array of musicians from around the world to reinterpret “Fantas,” a bracing 10-minute composition from her 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. The piece, which opens with wispy synths that give way to glowing orbs of sound that dart about in interlocking shapes, is engrossing in the same way watching an incoming storm can be; it provokes constant anticipation, the complex swirl impossible to take in all at once. Barbieri’s music reflects a longstanding interest in the tension between the mechanical and the emotio...

Fact Mix 798: Elvin Brandhi Share this: Fact Mix 798: Elvin Brandhi A “sonic mythology of confiscated acquaintances” from the Bridgend musician and sound designer. Listening to Elvin Brandhi’s music can be a chaotic, overwhelming experience. The Welsh artist works with field recordings and voice alongside tools such as Ableton Live and Auto-Tune to create a “mutant paste” that sit at the boundaries of noise, sound design and club music. “I am really drawn to certain frequencies, it’s often a search of matching the waves of my nervous state, tuning sound to my psyche rather than ...

A platform for African dance and electronic music has been launched by Apple Music. The new platform, which has been named Isgubhu — the Zulu word for ‘beat’ — features South African DJ/producer Black Coffee as its first cover star, and will shine a light on subgenres like amapiano, gqom, kwaito and Shangaan electro.  Speaking about Isgubhu, Stephen Campbell, Apple Music’s Global Head of Dance and Electronic music, said: “Apple Music has been a long term supporter of the incredible DJs, artists and producers within the Dance and Electronic music community in Africa and we’re v...