As the Francophone rap scene keeps evolving and diversifying, different rapers are putting more focus on the visuals that accompany their music in their video clips.

As I was reading through the last edition of Gaze Magazine (features works of many talented women, definitely recommend), I came across the work of Beya Panicha, an illustrator and painter from Thailand.

A diverse selection of dance/electronic music albums that particularlystand out. .

Fuco Ueda’s universe feels like entering a daydream; a world of female silhouettes, flowers and animals, where air blends with water as if they were one, and where time seems to be going slower than it ever will, here, on planet earth."..

It is pretty rare and very enjoyable to be able to see an artist being involved on so many different grounds at the same time. It really feels like looking at Charif's creativity and music from a different lense everytime and discovering its multiple faces as you listen to the different projects.

Originally from Quebec in Canada, Charles-André Coderre is an analog film director and is known for his film experimentation. Experimenting a lot with film development techniques, his work really has a unique atmosphere to it.

“I’ve gotten attached to the streets because as an architect we get taught that you need to address the context and link the surrounding to your personal experience. That is why when you see most of the sketches I do, they are sketches of the context, but they are my context."

From the top 100 fiction films at the box office every year from 2007 to 2017, 16 composers were women, 1218 were men. Here's a non exhaustive list of soundtrack composers for a different narrative.

This album, as the title can let you guess, is a diverse compilation of dancefloor music from Cape Verde with a selection made by Arp Frique and Americo Brito.

“It really came naturally for me. Focusing on details has allowed me to develop a lot of sensitivity and connection with my inner self.”

Although his drawing style is very much inspired from vintage looking comics, he works quite closely with numeric mediums, reusing and modifying comics that have fallen into public domain, and therefore make something new out of it.

Singer, saxophonist, bandmaster or politician, he has done it all and has revolutionised the world of music. He is known to have played an important role in the creation of Afrobeat and was very influential in the Nigerian political scene during that time.