With a new year just started, it’s time to tidy up our most recent music listening(s) and find out what the mad, mad 2020 offered us when it came to new songs. Despite what we all had to bear, music brought us plenty of relief. So, check out our most...
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Radio Mukambo takes you to Budapest to discover the pioneering Hungarian afrobeat group The Mabon Dawud Republic. The young band already toured in Ghana where they recorded with highlife legend Pat Thomas and vocalist and kologo player Stevo Atambire. Their debut LP is our cd of the week, on out...
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
There was a time, at the turn of the century, when the so-called patchanka (also defined as rock mestizo, rock metis or alt-Latino) finally enjoyed the fruits of two decades of underground music militancy. Manu Chao, Barcelona and its Ramblas, and the anti-globalization movement became the protagonists and subjects of...
We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to bring you a monthly collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist: <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&amp;amp;lt;span...
Preview of the album: Tracklist: 1. Yelfris Valdés – Eastern Part of Me [EC1 Studios] 00:00 – 06:15 2. Agrupacion Ilegal Los Imparciales – Norwegian Wood [Names You Can Trust] 06:15 – 15:33 3. Batuk – Move! [TEKA MUSIC] 15:34 – 19:46 4. Tremor – Resplandor [ZZK Records] 19:47 – 23:07...
We thought about songs, but we couldn’t avoid doing justice to albums too and pointing out what excited us most in 2017. We decided to limit ourselves to 10 LPs already featured on Rhythm Passport, plus some more “personal” recommendations. …and even though people are saying that they don’t make music...
In times of end-of-year charts, top ten lists, ‘top of’ and ‘best of’, we’ve preferred to keep things as inclusive and smooth as possible, so we have simply “listened back” to 2017 and summed up what our speakers, headphones and earphones have played the most. Enjoy our 2017 in music...
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Fans of contemporary music from the African continent have been blessed in 2017 with releases from Zimbabwe’s Mokoomba and Mali’s Tamikrest and Songhoy Blues – illustrating that there’s a wealth of new artists and contemporary sounds emanating from the continent. Jupiter & Okwess from the Congo, cement this reputation by...
It’s not every day that there is an opportunity to be involved in such exciting gigs, with artists who are not simply referential names for long-established music styles but have gone even further by creating their own ones. That’s why we feel delighted to co-promote an event happening on the...