Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

Loudgi is a young artist who began his career some years ago more or less in the underground. His stage name is verlan of the diminutive of his nickname, Gilou, plus a "d" to denote the English pronunciation of the name. He was therefore allowed to play debuts of musicians such as Manou Bolomik, Millénium at Morne Rouge, or even Georges Helyott at the performance...