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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...
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...
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...