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Strut present an inspired new Afroelectronic project for June 2017, Kondi Band, a collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. The project was spawned after Boima happened upon an online video of...
Ote Maloya: The Birth Of Electric Maloya In La Runion (1975-1986) Strut present a brand new compilation documenting the groundbreaking maloya scene on Réunion Island from the mid- ‘70s, as Western instrumentation joined traditional Malagasy, African and Indian acoustic instruments to spark a whole...
Kin Sonic. - Kin Sonic by Jupiter & Okwess (CD)
Nobodys music has proved as divisive and polarised opinions as much as the music of Ornette Coleman. He revolutionized the very language of Jazz, but his ideas made him a controversial figure. In 1959 he recorded the recognized classic "The Shape Of Jazz To Come", and in 1961 he pioneered the Free...
60 tracks from one of the most multi-talented performers the UK has ever produced. This set covers his early Rock ‘n' Roll sides going through to his hits from the early 60s including the perrenial children's fave "Little White Bull". - The Absolutely Essential 3CD Collection by Tommy Steele
Rough-hewn, tribal sonics from the Rwandan borderlands. Haunted solo & group singing meets hand fashioned string instruments and battery operated loop machines. The textures are strange and abstract but at the same time intimate and joyful. The Abatwa (pygmy) are one of Africas most endangered...
A captivating collection of classic and contemporary Cuban songs. No place is more defined by its music than Cuba. Music pours out of every doorway and vintage taxicab. A party in Cuba without music? Unthinkable! Cuba's unique musical identity was well-developed by the beginning of the 20th...
Imagine a world where every person is temporarily transported to outer space for the sole purpose of looking back on earth to experience its sheer beauty. For a brief moment, we could all escape the greatest atrocities of our time and take in an outer-world perspective to see all of humanity living...
Brazilian Samba, Bosnian Sevdah, New Orleans Jazz, Cuban son - and Albanian Saze! The turn of the last century saw mass migrations to the world's cities with rural people bringing their music with them, adapting their traditions to new circumstances and modern instruments. Of all these great...
Strut present the first ever new international studio album by one of the all-time great African big bands, Orchestre Les Mangelepa. Last Band Standing is coming 20th October 2017 and available to pre-order now! Comprising Congolese musicians who settled in Kenya, Les Mangelepa helped drive the...
A window into the full-blooded, captivating spirit of music from the Andes, ANDINA shines a fresh perspective on Peru's Andean heritage. A co-release with Strut Records, the album is selected from records released between ‘68 and ‘78, upending clichéd ideas of Andean music and bringing to light the...
TootArd are a young, trailblazing ensemble from the occupied Golan Heights who deftly fuse Levant-tinted desert blues, melodic psych-rock, morphed reggae and classical Arabic modalities. Their second album Laissez Passer, is their debut international release and one of the first such releases from...
There is no end to composer Peter Broderick's creative output, and so we present to you his new album titled All Together Again — available worldwide on November 17th 2017 via Erased Tapes. They say music takes you on a journey, and this collection of commissioned work by Peter quite literally...
This release consttues the ent re discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon's forgot en geniuses. Unlike many musicians who emerged...
Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. The band's aptly named third album, "III", is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album's...
Strut presents the new album from the modern day leader of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti. The youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is as incensed by injustice as his father ever was and, with his mighty new album Black Times including a feature from Carlos Santana, he honours the revolutionaries who...
Direct from Cuba! Daptone Records is proud to introduce Orquesta Akokán, a big band collective of Havana's top musicians both young and old, joining forces with some of the most creative and spirited talents of New York's Latin music scene. Born out of a shared vision by singer José "Pepito" Gómez,...
One of the leading producers and instrumentalists in Brazilian music, Alexandre Kassin has produced roughly 100 records for singers, including Marisa Monte and Bebel Gilberto, recorded with Sean O'Hagan (Stereolab, High Llamas) and made a full album based on Nintendo Game Boy sounds. He has played...
The Good Is A Big God, by singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Domenico Lancellotti, features contributions from Nina Miranda, Moreno Veloso, Pedro Sá and Sean O'Hagan. Son of composer Ivor Lancellotti, Domenico has collaborated with various MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) names such as...
Fenfo: Something to Say Fatoumata Diawara released her brand new single ‘Nterini' on 8th March. A poignant, melodic ode to a distant lover, ‘Nterini´(which translates as "my love/friend/confidant") musically straddles the traditional and the modern. Taken from her forthcoming album, the single was...