Every year, to mark International Women’s Day, I create a playlist of composers I love. These are geniuses I am constantly inspired by.

My 2025 playlist is titled Now Is Our Time - IWD 2025, the title of Noa Fort’s homonymous song. This year I choose to bring to your attention the work of the 12 composers that make up cohort 7 of Mutual Mentorship For Musicians (of which I am part) and the two cofounders: Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa. I decided it was time to move away from Spotify because its policies damage musicians, their livelihood, our planet and I can’t in good conscience send you all there. I bought all this wonderful music and created a Bandcamp playlist but, guess what?! Bandcamp playlists cannot be shared. Please consider buying these amazing musicians music. Below are all their links.

This playlist is a collaboration with Vortex Jazz Club, London.

Below you can find each artist Bandcamp link to buy their music (some tracks are different from the youtube playlist. More music your way, a bonus!)

Summer Kodama

Sara Serpa

Melissa Almaguer

Daisy Mangwato

Manu Ranila

Noa Fort

Maddalena Ghezzi

Jen Shyu

Carolina Borja-Marroquin

Paige Brown

Alexandria DeWalt

Coco Elysses

Yuhan Su

Chanelle Ignant


Previous years playlists can be found below:

My 2024 playlist is titled Weave A Matriarchal Dome, a phrase from Björk’s song Future Forever. To me weaving a matriarchal dome means changing the perspective and creating a society that values the empowerment of all and builds future scenarios in balance with nature.

This playlist is a collaboration with Vortex Jazz Club, London.