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Cherine Abulwafa

From rock and metal to musicals and classics, and everything in between! A musician and a writer who has a passion for the brilliance of arts and the magnificence of culture.

BETWEEN THE TREES, A QUIET ACHE

Steel & Velvet’s Orphan’s Lament opens like the memory of a voice carried on wind: fragile, human, and immeasurably alone. The song, first penned and performed by Robbie Basho...

THE RIVER DOES NOT FORGET!

There’s a strange stillness at the heart of “Deer Cross The River.” one that feels less like silence and more like memory. Norwegian musician Gunnar Kjellsby, under his one-man...

WHERE THE LIGHT FINDS YOU

In Honesty (Psalm 139), Fiona Amaka turns introspection into radiance. Her latest single is a delicate unveiling, a song that feels as if it were whispered to the soul...

BENEATH THE FEEDBACK AND FLUORESCENCE

Decrepit Youths have always thrived on disarray: the beautiful, snarling kind that hums between noise and nerve. Their latest release, Sound of the Underground, tears through that boundary once...

BEYOND THE COUNTDOWN

There’s something cosmic about the way 5…4…3…2…1… unfolds, like a signal transmitted from the wreckage of Earth, half warning, half celebration. Zachary Mason’s latest EP is less a collection...

THE SUN IS WHISPERING DIFFERENTLY HERE

The7thGatekeeper’s rendition of You Are My Sunshine feels like watching daylight dissolve into something unfamiliar. Recorded in the artist’s home chaos room studio in Barry, South Wales, this reimagining...