Show for February 2021 on Radio Campus Bxl & Rhythm Passport, 3 hours of new global sounds. We have four songs of the day from a Palestine cult group via Akuphone, Maroc 60’s flower pop via Habibi Funk, African electronics (Shika Shika) and tribal percussion. Our albums of the month...
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‘Love & Unity’ is the new single extracted from Soothsayers‘ new album We Are Many released on Wah Wah 45s and available here: https://soothsayers.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-many-2
Enjoy ‘Ey Tir (Les coeurs sont ta cible)’, the new video by Paris-based ensemble Atine. The group is formed by five Iranian musicians, currently living in France, who are re-arranging traditional Persian music employing Arabic, flamenco, jazz and baroque influences. Back in November, they released their debut album Parisienne...
A full hour of dub on Radio Mukambo, starting with our album of the week Mandinga Dub by André Sampaio meets Victor Rice. Brazilian music inspired by West-Africa getting the dub treatment. The rest of the podcast is full of dub crossovers with ethiojazz, afrobeat, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Indian sounds & Balkan...
For our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we took a three-hour trip to Nepal to experience its sounds and stories and have a sneak peek into its culture. You can now...
Just like they did in 2019, our good friends at Radio Krimi decided to put together their very own end-of-the-year (play)list and dedicate it to record labels instead of musicians/bands or albums… It goes without saying that we are more than happy to feature it on our pages and share it...
Fancy a full immersion into the recent history of funk? Then Lettuce has what it takes to guide you through the last two decades of the genre. The band, which sprouted back in 1992 from a music programme at Berklee, is a Cliff’s Notes of the rhythmic and groovy funk...
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SOURCE is the first long player by tenor saxophonist and one of London’s young jazz luminaries Nubya Garcia. London has been the campus for what has been happening in jazz lately, and the hothouse of Tomorrow’s Warriors and Trinity Laban Conservatoire along with nights like Jazz Re:freshed and Church of...
Israeli-born with Persian parents, Tel Aviv dwelling artist Liraz is no ordinary electro-pop musician. For the creation of her incredibly popping and danceable second album, she took a big risk to confront religious-political tensions between Iran and Israel, and collaborate with Iranian musicians to create an album influenced by 1970s...
There was something extra jubilant and euphoric about the Tallinn Music Week that managed to take place, against all odds, in the latter part of August. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, Estonia invited delegates and music lovers from the world over to flee any which way they could, to Tallinn Medieval Old...