Sarra Soweto is an artist that is passionate about music, especially Afrobeat and acoustics. She was born in Mali and raised in Serbia, and she now resides in Tarterets, which is located in the French department of Essonne. She began composing at a very young age on the guitar as well as the piano before committing herself to lyrical singing in the conservatory while passing through...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...