It’s the first week of the year so time to treat you to the best albums of 2021. A global trip that will take you from Colombian Pacific tot a refugee camp in the desert, from adrenaline fuelled jazz to the Beastie Boys making cumbia in the Congo. Ethiogrooves, Latin...
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This week we dive into the Golden Sixties and Seventies of highlife music with Oliver Nayoka, a Nigerian singer & guitarist, mixing highlife with heavy Congolese guitar. Aja Wele-Wele sounds like a vinyl coming straight from the ’70s but was made today, reshaping the history and conception of highlife earning himself...
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: The 65th episode of our monthly compilation focuses its attention...
This week we fly to the Congo to make sure that Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound. A surrealistic title for the fourth full-length album by the legendary Congolese polyrhythmic trance collective Kasai Allstars, our album of the week out on Crammed Discs. We check more...
Check out the 2nd single extracted from Congolese Kasai All-Stars‘ brand new album Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound, out on Belgian label Crammed Discs. “This is the story behind the lyrics: in certain villages of the Basongye people, someone occasionally plays the part of...
Nightshop show May 2021 for Radio Campus Bxl & Rhythm Passport with 3 hours of new global sounds. Four songs of the day from Cape Verdian violins to a Sinti rom cello song, tamashek blues and electronic Latin-Arab bass. Our albums of the month first take us to Africa, with...
Pancada Motor: Transformação e Cura is the 7th album by DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar from São Paulo (Brazil), a breed of Brazilian field recordings made between 2007 and 2019 and recordings with traditional and modern musicians during trips around the world. Calling for “Transformation and Cure”: the...
This is only the third year that Walthamstow Garden Party has lit up the North London borough, but it could have been a decade or more. People are already getting used to the two-day-long festival that brings music, art and delicious food onto the grass of Lloyd Park. And like...
12:00 am - 12:00 am Congotronics Vs. Rockers Barbican Centre, London