Two decades of harmony culminate in this eclectic tribute to iconic voices and far-flung inspirations from throughout the world. The core of I NU was created when Marianne and Hnawej's magnetic fields were coupled together. Their creative affinity spans a greater breadth, thanks to the two decades' worth of life experiences and musical discovery that have been woven together to form a symphony, and their enthusiasm...

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...