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Raging against the dying of the light with the New Jersey band’s new rock opera, “The Most Lamentable Tragedy.”

Touring the Cuisine of the Mediterranean with Bobby Saritsoglou of Philadelphia’s Opa.

No matter who is mixing, though, Souleyman—still in his familiar shades and traditional robes—is the star, and his poignant vocals are as magnetic as his look is unique.

Get ready to get down like it’s 1995 all over again.

Like Zora Neale Hurston floating existentialist word-jazz over elastic skronk from Sun Ra’s Arkestra, the newest album from Ishmael Butler (Butterfly, of Digable Planets) and multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire is far more scintillatingly experimental than its predecessor, Black Up.

The lizardy charms of “Baby’s On Fire,” the blissful “I’ll Come Running,” the jazzy, energized harmonies of Wrong Way Up: it is this Eno that appears throughout High Life.