Last week, Blue Note Records released Blue Note Re:Imagined, a compilation from artists in and adjacent to the current UK jazz scene doing reinventions of classic material within the vast Blue Note ...

UK-via-South Africa artist Skinny Pelembe has announced his new album, Hardly The Same Snake, will come out April 28 via Partisan (pre-order). It’s his second full-length album, following 2019’s ...

Skinny Pelembe and Beth Orton have shared a cover of Leonard Cohen’s 1974 track “Who by Fire.” It’s Orton’s first music since 2022’s Weather Alive; Skinny Pelembe released his second album, Hardly the ...

Who shall we say is calling? On a new rendition of Leonard Cohen‘s nearly half-century–old folk-rock classic “Who by Fire,” it’s Skinny Pelembe and Beth Orton. The duo’s breathy performance adds a ...

Doya Beardmore, AKA Skinny Pelembe, is a man of who likes to play themes off one another, holding up a fun house mirror to the expected and distorting it into something else completely. You need only ...

Skinny Pelembe is back with new single "My Love Is Burning, Up", a re-work of his debut album track "My Love Is Burning, Down". "My Love Is Burning, Down" appeared on Pelembe's debut album Dreaming Is ...

After leaving Gilles Peterson’s label, the artist felt adrift. But by drawing on a heritage that stretches from Birmingham to Mozambique, his new music is his most confident yet ‘Every problem you ...

The first record Skinny Pelembe remembers listening to as a student – after borrowing it from the library and taking it back to his digs – was by a foundational drum ’n’ bass producer. Little did the ...

Doncaster’s Doya Beardmore brings his otherworldly eclecticism to the fore on his fine new single There’s an underwater quality to Doya Beardmore’s music, an otherworldliness that bubbles up and ...

Mozambique head coach Chequínio Condé has unveiled the preliminary squad for matchdays 7 and 8 of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Mozambique will take on Uganda in Kampala on September 5, before ...

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