For a few years now, the New York-based artist Gabe ‘Nandez has been making intense, thoughful underground rap music. ‘Nandez is a prolific force with an fascinating sense of perspective, as he grew ...

Sortilège, French for “spell” or foretelling through chance, opens like a conjuration. Gabe ‘Nandez and Preservation first connected on Aethiopes, where Nandez appeared on the track ‘Sauvage’. That ...

There is no icon that is more resolutely Canadian than the maple leaf. Emblazoned on the national flag, the symbolism it invokes is nuanced and reverential. Thus, maple syrup has become an ...

As Sortilège—a friend who slips in and out of the pot-hazy life of Inherent Vice‘s protagonist, Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix)—indie musician Joanna Newsom is a vital presence. Sortilège is not only ...