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Rich, deep, percussive soulful folk album from master Togolese singer, Akofa Akoussah. The album moves through uptempo afro-folk-funk on ‘Tango' to deep ballads of ‘Ramer Sans Rame' and ‘I Tcho Tchass' and lighter moments on ‘G Blem Di' and ‘Mitso Aseye'. Akofas exceptional songs and soaring vocals...
Luiz Carlos Fritz (Fritz Escovão), João Parahyba and Nereu Gargalo aka Trio Mocotó are most well-known as Jorge Ben Jr. ‘s backing band. They played on several seminal Jorge Ben LP's - his self-titled from 1969, Força Bruta in 1970 and Negro É Lindo in 1971. Trio Mocotó were also key players in the...
Japanese jazz/breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Minoru Muraoka plays ‘shakuhachi' - a traditional bamboo Japanese flute - joined by his band members...
Golden-era, 1977, Brazilian jazz-funk-fusion album from the legendary, Azymuth. Lush Rhodes, soaring synths and fusion guitars from Malheiros and Bertrami combine with the inimitable drum grooves from Ivan "Mamao" Conti that create the signature Azymuth sound. The album moves from mellow soulful...
Extremely hard-to-obtain LP from the Ghanaian master composer, producer and musician. Originally released in 1982 by the WEA International label and then again in Germany in 1985 by Ambolley himself; this is one of his finest albums in our opinion. Ambolley' fuses Highlife, disco and boogie sonics...
Originally released by RGE in 1970 in Brazil, ‘É Ferro Na Boneca!' features 13 songs composed by Luiz Galvão and Moraes Moreira. This record shows the roots of the group, moving through psychedelics, edgey pop, rock and Tropicália. After writing ‘É Ferro Na Boneca!' their music began to move...
Nahawa Doumbia is one of Mali's defining vocalists of the last four decades. Her work journeys through progressive stages of musical evolution and sonic vogues, making it hard to summarize or even comprehend. She's played a part in popular music since the late ‘70s, as her version of Wassoulou...
This nomadic album, recorded in a natural setting, is as close as you can get to the ‘soul' of Tinariwen, a group of musicians that in every sense exist far-beyond their 17-year tenure and extensive discography of critically acclaimed albums. Lyrically and thematically, the album explores the...
It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified backdrop of synth, bass guitar and...
Nahawa Doumbia's new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with...
With Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky - boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality,...
From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple sound of Ethiopia. No one would argue that The...
Kgothatso Tshabalala is 19 years old and Zakhele Mhlanga (DJ Zakes) is 18. Their 12-track debut electronic music album, Teenage Dreams, is not easily dismissed as a project that shows their age, though. Teenage Dreams presents a youthful, experimental sound, but the arrangement of each song and how...
MOTOMAMI is the new album from Grammy Award winning recording artist, producer, and songwriter Rosalía. The album features the previously released songs "LA FAMA (feat. The Weeknd)", "SAOKO", and much, much more. Rosalía's MOTOMAMI has been declared as "One of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2022"...
Continuing their mystical saga, NYC's Combo Chimbita roars back onto the global stage with their cathartic new album Irè. The album's evocative title is forged upon double-edged meaning: on one hand embracing the divinely inspired blessings and prosperity foretold by our spiritual elders, and on...
Stan Walker's ‘Te Arohanui', marks an important and deeply personal milestone for the award-winning Māori performing artist, as he shares his first body of work in Reo Māori. "It was inevitable that I would release a reo Māori album. It wasn't a matter of if, but when. Now is the perfect time. The...
Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Ali's sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in the local languages of...
Cameroonian artist, musician, author, composer, performer and guitarist Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor, ribald intensity of bikutsi. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking...
No shortage of colorful characters emerged from Cameroon's bikutsi scene in the 1980's and early 90's. Gibraltar Drakus is one of the most enduring and enigmatic of the artists who helped transform bikutsi into a beautifully endless fabric of triplet rhythms that eventually reached ears around the...
The fourth addition to the Nigeria Special series focusing on Fela Kuti's impact on Nigerian music. - Nigeria Afrobeat Special by Various (CD)