WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka such as Ibrahim Hesnawi

such as Ibrahim Hesnawi

It sounds as if the two artists have been playing together for decades

the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark ‘60s and ‘70s recordings

In their unflappable determination to shine light into the darkness

and memory

WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka such as Ibrahim HesnawiVeteran music journalist Michael A. Gonzales looks back twenty years on Aaliyahs debut album, the controversy with R. Kelly, and the follow up album with Timbaland that changed the landscape of R&B. Includes never before published photos of Aaliyah by photographer Jonathan Mannion. Novelist T. P. Carter interviews newcomer and runs down the L. A. electro bass scene. Contents: Aaliyah Kelela Edwin Birdsong Rinder & Lewis Terry Reid Jimmy Jam