LAGOS - MARCH 2025
KEZIAH JONES
“RYTHM is universal”
“RYTHM is universal”
From the streets of London to the cafés of Paris, from Lagos to notebooks filled with fragments, riffs, and visions, Keziah Jones has always been in motion. The inventor of "Blufunk" (a genre where Yoruba rhythms collide with funk, blues, and jazz) the Nigerian-born musician is as much a poet of sound as he is a cartographer of cities, identities, and contradictions. For CITY, he opens up about rhythm as resistance, songwriting as ritual, and Lagos as a chord no one can quite resolve.
Photography by Morgan Otagburuagu.
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PARIS- JULY 2025
Welcome to the new CITY. A magazine not merely about places, but about the invisible threads that bind people to them: the gestures, the silences, the sparks of creation and longing that inhabit every street corner. We believe the soul of a city lives in its detours: in the rhythm of a shortcut, the shimmer of a glance, the grace of an unforeseen encounter. That’s where stories begin, off the map, on the verge.
Here, we chose to work with local teams, those who speak the language of their own landscape: photographers, stylists, and writers who carry their cities beneath their skin. From the restless breath of Lagos to the suspended quiet of Tokyo, from the golden blur of Paris to the electric pulse of London, CITY is a chorus of rooted voices, each echoing outward. Each story was shaped in situ, with the dust and light of its setting still clinging to it. Mika Schneider, the Franco-Japanese model, captured in Tokyo through the eccentric lens of Hanayo. The complex beauty of Lagos, rendered by the keen eye of Morgan Otagburuagu. Las Vegas, seen anew through the prose of writer Ahmed Naji. The cities that inhabit Jean-Paul Goude, drawn like constellations from memory and myth.
This is CITY: global by design, intimate by instinct. Pack light. Stay open.
And above all, remember: “Don’t believe the accuracy of our instructions.
Believe only the caravan’s trace.” (Mahmoud Darwich)*.
And above all, remember: “Don’t believe the accuracy of our instructions.
Believe only the caravan’s trace.” (Mahmoud Darwich)*.
LAGOS - MARCH 2025