MC NEL AND DJ WALLPAPER: LIFE OF A YOUNG GHANAIAN DJ Disc Jockeying as an art of playing recorded sound or music simultaneously for a crowd or audience on radio, TV, or at a gathering has been booming in Ghana in recent times. With their direct access to musicians many are if they believe that as we've seen in the life of some of the most...

Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...