How platforms mess with our tastes. In the era of algorithmic feeds, it’s as if the bookshelves have started changing shape on their own in real time, shuffling some material to the front and downplaying the rest like a sleight-of-hand magician trying …
Plainte – Chekoua – Lamentation / Épreuve – Mihna – Hardship
Chris Silver (Gharamaphone): “In May 2020, I posted Sariza Cohen’s stunning recording of ‘أَشْكُوا الْغَـرَامَ’ (Ashku al-gharam) [Soundcloud], released … in 1938. This is the other side of that record [Soundcloud]. It is no less remarkable. Here the…