With a back catalogue of over 70 albums and EPs to date, Charif music transports you into a world that bounces between classic soul, funked up afrobeats, zippy acoustic guitar riffs and vintage Italian movie scores.

Nuri’s music can be best described as a mix of bass, beats and dirty old sounds layered between samples of Afro and Global melodies

Starting from their roots as a nine-piece, Cuban-infused musical collective, WARA have always lent their voice to the world’s injustices.

Melodic guitar playing, impassioned poetry and foot stomping rock vibes are a few elements which you can expect from up and coming artist Rasha Nahas.

Reform The Funk has been keeping an eye on the whirlwind of talent coming out of the Middle East.

Fancy getting familiar with who the the key figures (past and present) of New Zealand’s hip hop scene?

We speak to those that have grown up with a love of Kiwi Hip Hop – including current artists leading the scene - on how it evolved into a uniquely homegrown sound and continues to diversify today…

Arab Palestinian musician, Moody Kablawi has been working his way through the music scene since his early teens.

Palestinian Hip Hop band, DAM, offer an abundance of personality, humility and passion. Made up of rapper Tamer Nafer, a force to be reckoned with, whose dry sense of humour and passionately profound statements keep any audience on their toes

Many know Doja Cat as the mastermind behind the now infamous viral video Mooo!.But unbeknownst to many the American rapper has been “tryna make moves” since 2013 with the release of her first EP Purrr.

Described by Vogue Arabia as ‘The Queen of Arab Hip Hop’, rapper Malikah is setting an example for females on a global scale.

She opened for Masego at the Bristol stop of his 2018 UK Tour, and since releasing her debut album Colour Reaction, LayFullStop is definitely one to watch this year.

Raised in Nigeria, a 16 year old Faridah Seriki famously known as Kah-Lo traversed to New York for study and began her musical career performing in cafés and coffeeshops, with a round the clock pursuit of approval from AnR’s and record label execs without any palpable results.

Singer/songwriter and producer Estere (born Estere Dalton) grew up with a fondness of music, listening to her parents’ old cassettes and records in the beautiful city of Wellington (capital of New Zealand).

Our conversation with Deva Mahal (pronounced Diva) is very telling of the profundity she beholds as a person, and her ability to peel back layers of herself just to bare her soulful reveries, is as if sacrificial.

Ghanaian singer and songwriter, Jane Awindor, better known as EFYA transcends the scope of Afrobeats in a romantic applaud to a genre so rigid in its rhythm and drum melodies that she dictates a whole new sound veritable on every body of work she puts out, be it features, refixes or her own music.

A group like CUTWITH, on paper, shouldn’t work. The members, Sean, Shem, and Betty Adewole, who met through nights out and mutual friends, began freestyling together and knew instantly there was a music chemistry they wanted to tap into. 

Saba’s newest album, CARE FOR ME, just might be the breakthrough of dreams. Deeply confessional poetry over caramel brown neo-Soul piano vibes makes the rapper’s fifth release to date a record you’ll marvel over, even if it besets you with a vague, nagging melancholy.