Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...

Native World Entertainment Launches In Africa Native World Entertainment a Ghanaian 360 entertainment record label has launched in Africa. The 360 Entertainment outfit is a record label formed with the mindset that we are all natives of the world and music unites us irrespective of colour, race or creed. It currently has a crop of young talented musicians mainly from West Africa travelling around the world making...