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...

A city can sit in a person’s mind long after the move becomes routine. ÏGOR puts that tension at the centre of "Lisboa Na Cabeça", a bilingual single. The Portuguese-born, London-based artist links Barreiro and Lisbon to identity, migration and saudade. For listeners seeking R&B, hip-hop and pop, it offers connection across Portuguese and international audiences. ÏGOR calls the single a tribute to Portugal, and that...