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Following his 2019, critically acclaimed debut, God Is Not a Terrorist, 49-note scale microtonal vocal master Ustad Saami returns with an epic part two. Pakistan is for the Peaceful presents an even more immersive work, comprised of just three extended tracks and again produced 100% live at the...
Fabled as the city where dreams come to thrive or die, Johannesburg is forever pumping out the life-giving force of criss-crossing sonic tributaries. As this collection of specially recorded new music shows, every generation must discover for itself what perfecting the alchemy of that expression...
Strut present the brand new album from Alostmen, led by Stevo Atambire, a band at the forefront of kologo music in Ghana. Formed by Stevo and Wanlov The Kubolor (Fok'n Bois) at the suggestion of co-producer Percy Yip Tong, Alostmen's music is based around the Frafra traditions of the kologo, a...
33 1/3 years after its first release Piranha Records reissues the groundbreaking Stella Chiweshe international debut Ambuya! on quality 180g vinyl, remastered from analog tapes, together with a bonus John Peel session from 1988. Stella Chiweshe stands as one of the most enduring and successful...
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin's music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin's recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7" singles and...
Transglobal Underground's ‘A Gathering of Strangers 2021' is a collection of 10 songs made while travelling across Europe in search of songs of migration. The album documents travels made by co-leaders Tim Whelan and Hamid Mantu through Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland,...
It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born. It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with...
The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his most personal and immersive album to date. Intimately recorded with a small band, "Binga" dives deep into Samba's Songhoy roots. Moody Sahelian atmospheres. Cautionary tales. Hopes for better days. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Songhoy...
Cuba and New Orleans have been engaged in a cross-cultural dance for hundreds of years, and that legacy lives on in the sounds of the Crescent City today. Legendary New Orleans pianist and jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton called the Afro-Cuban rhythms embedded in New Orleans music "the Spanish tinge....
Yoga Dreamland was co-created by renowned musician and yoga instructor Seán Johnson and Putumayo founder Dan Storper. It includes a 24-page booklet featuring simple yoga poses and instructions to guide a gentle yoga practice and prepare for a night of serene sleep. The package also includes an...
A captivating musical celebration featuring singer-songwriters from around the globe. The CD includes detailed liner notes, artist photos, six regional recipes and an album download card. Featuring Wally Warning, Miroca Paris, Moustafa Kouyate & Romain Malagnoux, Alessandro D'Orazi, Constance Amiot...
The story of BLK JKS reads like a veritable rock'n'roll legend. For a couple of years around the end of the 00's, the enigmatic South African rock quartet was the darling of the underground scene. Apparently "discovered" by Diplo in South Africa, they went on to meet and befriend everyone from The...
Miriam Makeba's ‘Keep Me In Mind' was her last album for Reprise and reflected major changes in both her own personal life and politically within the USA. After becoming a national star globally following the success of ‘Pata Pata' in 1967, she had fallen out publicly with her mentor and ‘Big...
Daptone Records is honored to announce the release of Innov Gnawa's full-length, Lila. Formed in NYC, this grammy-nominated group of Moroccan expats has been making waves locally and abroad with their hypnotic live shows. The group is led by Ma'alem Hassan Ben Jaffar, a master musician and...
After the 280 concerts that followed the release of their 2017 album Kin Sonic, Jupiter & Okwess are returning with a new album entitled Na Kozonga, a blast of energy that bewitches the body and feeds the spirit. Since the beginning, the Rebel General and his fellow pyrotechnicians have been...
Strut presents the first full international release for another lost classic from the Black Fire Records archives, ‘Southern Energy', the only album recorded by R'n'B and jazz collective Southern Energy Ensemble in 1977. Trumpeter Marvin Daniels had been drafted into the US army in Germany during...
Strut presents one of the most in-demand and significant albums from the archives of Jimmy Gray's Black Fire Records, ‘Bow To The People' (1976) by theatre collective Theatre West, based out of Dayton, Ohio. Founder Clarence Young III was a US Air Force Vietnam Vet who had been part of a theatrical...
There are so many styles of music throughout Africa that it would be difficult for a Westerner to know where to start. Thislive album by King Sunny Ade would be a good place, for many reasons. What isJuju music? It is a lively style rooted in the interaction between elaborate percussion and...