Listening to Afaq Art Production's new single "Bejamalen (With Beauty)" performed by Ziad Kamal feels a bit like stepping out of a chaotic, sun-baked street into the sudden, vaulted vastness of an ancient sanctuary. https://open.spotify.com/album/7GbecQZE3yVH6enRaALvLk?si=seoOwwjgS_SE3MsuPg-rxw Kamal is only twenty-four. He manages the rather fascinating trick of balancing his daily life as a Mechatronics engineer with a profound, academic mastery of Eastern Maqams, violin, and oud. Here,...

Some people enter your life and rearrange the furniture in your head. Lanusa’s “Jupiter” knows that feeling well. The 2026 indie folk and alternative rock single uses the planet’s gravitational force to describe a person whose presence can make everyone nearby feel off-course. It is dreamy, groove-driven, and quietly uneasy, a song about attraction that keeps checking the cost of giving another person too much influence. Lanusa...