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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...
All I am about is making history, says Janka Nabay. After a string of cassette releases, Nabay became a star of electronic bubu music back home in Sierra Leone. But he was soon forced to escape his homeland's explosive civil war in the 1990s. Over the years, Nabay gradually rebuilt his musical...
Ghana's ancient empire and the 21st century global express. The rhythms that created the past alongside the beats forging the present. In King Ayisoba, they all converge. Everything morphing into one. And on his new album, 1000 Can Die, they stand together, history and today, side by side. The...
At last the European release of one of 2016's most acclaimed albums. 75 Dollar Bill's second full-length crashed onto many of last year's most prestigious "Best Album" lists: The Wire, Uncut, The Village Voice/Pazz & Jop (and more). The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic,...
Sufi trance musicians and rituals - from the depths of the Tunisian desert - in conversation with post-industrial sonics. ‘No theatre or stage or audience. The rûwâhîne have possessed and contorted the bodies of the Banga. Teenagers leap to the floor, their legs arched and tense, glaring transfixed...