Five years in the making. Five cities. Thirteen record stores. One profound question: what does it mean to keep a scene alive? Damien and Gautier Barras went to Japan to find out — and came back with something none of them expected.

She arrived burnt out, skeptical, and carrying back pain she hadn't been able to shake. Eight days later, deep in the Amazon with the Shipibo healers of Ani Nii Shobo, she left feeling the strongest she had in years. Leila Antakly on ayahuasca, Mama Ida, and why the plant always knows.