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‘Nyanza' is the third album from the cross-cultural, boundary surpassing Owiny Sigoma Band. For their third offering, the band travelled to the Nyanza Province of Western Kenya - home of their two members Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko - to explore the birthplace of Luo music. A complex,...
Eji Oyewole. Born to a royal lineage in Ibadan, Prince Eji Oyewole has had a career as a flautist, saxophonist and sometime bandleader spanning well over half a century. He trained both in Nigeria and then at Trinity the prestigious music school in London, and his life as an itinerant musician also...
Following hot on the heels of our well-received reissue of his first album, Rim Arrives, we now present the two other key records that have made this a cult figure for lovers of both African music and ‘disco' in its widest sense. Too Tough, a superb three track EP from 1982, on Sum-Sum Records, was...
We're very proud to present here the first of two legendary ‘lost' albums both previously available only as rare-as-hen's teeth private presses, from one Samuel K. Mfojo, the man known as Rim Kwaku Obeng. As well as heralding the arrival as solo artist of an exciting new drummer, the title of his...
Between 1962 and 1966, Françoise Hardy released one French-language album per year. Each, strictly speaking, was eponymously titled, and each was collected from a series of contemporary four-track, seven-inch, picture-sleeve EPs-pop music's main format in France, known as le super 45. In them, we...
Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp have travelled similar paths in their respective careers, each earning reputations as fierce, creative artists and respected masters of their instruments (guitar & synthesizers, respectively). They first came together for "Early Astral" in 2012 (released in the UK by...
PLEASE WELCOME THE THE VOODOO RHYTHM FAMILY: THE ONE AND ONLY:ROLANDO BRUNO Y SU ORQUESTRA MIDI !!! 2005 He started playing and recording in Buenos Aires as a side project for his raw 60's Garage Punk outfit Los Peyotes (dirty water records). They were touring Europe several times when they split...
Along with producer Vincent Kenis, they convened in Batida's garage-cum-studio in Lisbon with a series of collaborators and friends of Batida's, reflecting the city's vibrant, cosmopolitan music life: guitarist Papa Juju (the leader of Lisbon's foremost Afro-fusion band Terrakota), vocalist Selma...
Soul Jazz Records Presents Venezuela 70 Soul Jazz Records' new Venezuela 70 is the first-ever album of its kind to take a look at the groundbreaking experimental rock music made in Venezuela and created in the 1970s - during a time when the country was both a modern cultural and economic powerhouse...
Songs Of Seperation - Songs Of Seperation Debut album by some of the finest British folk musicians working today centres around the theme of ‘separation. ' Featuring Eliza Carthy, Karine Polwart, Mary Macmaster, Kate Young, Hannah James, Hazel Askew and Rowan Rheingans (Lady Maisery), Jenn...
Ten years have passed since the phenomenal success of the "Paz e Futebol" compilation, released on Sonar Kollektiv. Since then Germany went on to win the Football World Cup in Brazil sparking an increased self-confidence and maybe inspiring the Berlin musical institution Jazzanova to compile again...
Tradition shapes your work. For saxophonist and bandleader Shabaka Hutchings, that's something he's long understood. After years spent in the orbit of London's jazz circuit, he examines and reimagines his influences with a dexterity that's unique. Drawing out the vision underlying his new album, he...
From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanlé documented a nation's transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta provides an intimate look into the landlocked nation's pop culture explosion of the 1970s. A melange of...
Ghanaian highlife master and "The Golden Voice Of Africa", Pat Thomas, returns with his frst full career retrospective on Strut this Autumn, covering his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the "burger highlife" movement of the early ‘80s. Growing up with music around him ("my uncle,...
The release of a 2CD set with a selection of twenty-three emblematic tracks celebrates eight years of musical research and experimentation featuring Cuba's musical avant-garde under the curation of Gilles Peterson with the backing of the Havana Cultura project. In 2008, DJ and globetrotter Gilles...
Hanoi Masters: War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, The Good Ones). The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using...
ll around Kidal, the Malian desert stretches in every direction. Endless horizons of rock and sand, barren and parched. This is the southwestern edge of the Sahara, the home of the Tuareg people, and the town of Kidal is one of their main cultural centres. Fought over, conquered and re-conquered,...
Something is stirring in downtown Tucson. That's no great surprise perhaps: Calexico have been sending out missives from the desert for 20 years now, Giant Sand for even longer than that, and the Green on Red revival is surely overdue. These three giants of American popular music ask questions of...
As far as I'm concerned, it's Tinariwen who created the path, declares Ousmane Ag Mossa, frizzy-locked leader of Tamikrest, in a pre-emptive strike against a thousand inevitable questions. But the way I see it, if younger bands don't come through, then Touareg music will eventually die. They...
Music always is a borderline experience. Especially when not only stylistically boundaries are shifting, but the centres of musical creativity are moving. It certainly would be an exaggeration to state that cities like London and New York, Manchester and Los Angeles have played itself out, but...