<p><span><span><span>- There are quite a few striking characteristics to John Lawrie &amp; The Welcome Strangers, but probably the most grabbing is Lawrie’s voice.

<p><span><span>- There’s a fair chance that every project Indonesian experimental duo Senyawa will pack in ideas and approaches to music you’ve never previously heard. In fact, instrumentalist <strong>Wukir Suryadi</strong>’s hand-built homemade bamboo instruments essentially guarantee that. Those ever-interesting instruments meet vocalist <strong>Rully Shabara</strong>’s expansive vocal palette which ranges from throat-signing to doom metal howls and make for a powerful combination.</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>- Coburg’s spaghetti western cowboys are back. Karate Boogaloo burst onto the scene back in 2018 with an idea so awesomely simple and obviously brilliant you might think they came up with it at music school for an assignment. What if we re-constructed live orchestrations of all the golden-era funk that was sampled on all our favourite golden-era hiphop records?

<p><span><span>- Kaidi Tatham has released a new album titled <em>An Insight To All Minds</em>. A stalwart of the UK music scene, Tatham was a member of the <strong>The Herbaliser</strong>'s live band in the '90s, <strong>Bugz In The Attic</strong> and one of the architects of the broken-beat scene, in addition to doing session work with a staggering list of musicians. His sound is distinctive, incorporating elements of jazz, hip-hop, jazz and dance music to great effect.</span></span></p>