Senior staff writer Anna Mammarelli argues that instrumental music boosts focus while lyrics distract and fuel cultural overstimulation.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have shared their annual Christmas track for 2021: a sprawling, pseudo-tropical slow-burner titled ‘SB-09’. The instrumental song is, as its title suggests, the ninth ...
The fifth episode in our series on Ektaal, a rhythmic cycle of 12 matras or time-units, highlights the use of this taal in vilambit laya or slow tempo by instrumentalists. This is done when they ...