A conversation with the gentle, inquisitive man who has pushed musical boundaries for fifty years; his musical catalogue is an amalgamation of his classical training, contemporary outlook and influences from across the world. His large-scale film scores (The Last Emperor, The Revenant) and more intimate solo projects ('Async' and his latest work '12') swirl with humanity and possibility.
Herbs’ debut ‘Whats’ Be Happen?’ is more than just a stirring example of the spread of reggae across Oceania in the 1970s: it's an important political document that teaches us about a time in New Zealand’s history and a symbol of resistance.
Sam Bonham speaks with Nicolas Godin—one half of French band Air—about the dance between visual and auditory, sound and space, as he writes the work of Le Corbusier into a single track.
Sam Bonham speaks with Berlin-based musician Nils Frahm about the beauty in making music after dark, whether it's classical or electronic or somewhere in between.
Joseph Pomp speaks with filmmaker Mu Tunç about Istanbul’s hardcore punk history and why, in fact, it’s unsurprising that such a genre should emerge in the cosmopolitan epicenter of Turkey.
Pre-world tour, Marlon Williams speaks with Ghita Loebenstein about his Māori heritage, the Gram Parsons CD that lured him to country music, and the familiar smell of the Christchurch air.
In collaboration with Spanish photographer Carlota Guerrero and director Alan Ferguson, Solange Knowles Ferguson explores black womanhood through a digital dossier of movement, repetition and landscape for the Tate Modern.
Anna Snoekstra guides us through the city’s unmarked independent record shops and music megastores in search of those rare finds.
Daymé Arocena takes us to the streets of Havana in her latest record ‘Cubafonía’, where a backdrop of soul, jazz, salsa and Afro-Cuban rhythms supports her bold and tender voice.
Greg Holland discovers Yangon’s punk scene—a movement that arose in rebellion to the political and cultural landscape of Burma’s past.
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