Plenty of afrobeat on Radio Mukambo, including 16-strong Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra led by funky heiress Camille Sledge from Phoenix, USA. Their third studio album “The Times” is our album of the week. We also listen to BANTU‘s new single and Ghanaian highlife from Saltpond City Band. Then we dive into...
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This week we travel to Eastern Africa with Entoto Band‘s modern Ethiopian funk. The collective based in the Netherlands reinterprets classics from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and writes their own songs in the same idiom. Their debut is our album of the week. While Ozferti‘s previous releases highlighted the Ethiopian territory...
Radio Mukambo starts with some sunny holiday vibes that are like a soundtrack to my Colombia, followed by afrobeat from Italy & the UK, Igbo highlife from Nigeria and ethiojazz from the Netherlands. The album of the week, Running The Way by Roforofo Jazz is afrobeat/hiphop/jazz from Paris around the American...
After almost a year without presenting, Benjaflor is back to present new releases, singles, concerts and festivals on Radio Mukambo! Join me on my trip to Palenke and Cartagena, with music from the first free Black town of the Americas ++ Dj Rata Piano delivering the album of the week,...
Here are Radio Mukambo‘s top 22 albums of 2022: ethiogrooves, Afro-Caribbean beats, creole sounds, Mali rock & global bass bring you to Afro-Brazilian beats, afrobeat and reggae/hip-hop in the top 3. Close your eyes and let this music journey bring you to the sounds of Caribbean beaches, African metropoles, Brazilian...
This week Radio Mukambo brings you two albums that came out before the summer but that somehow haven’t made it to the “album of the week”. So here they are: Seven Wisdoms Of Plutonia by Alpacas Collective, Afro-groovers from Leuven, Belgium, and La Ñapa by The Bongo Hop, Afro-Caribbean collective from Lyon,...
This week Radio Mukambo takes you to Melbourne, Australia, for a delicious dose of ethiogrooves meets afrobeat. On Good Evening Black Buddha, Black Jesus eXperience fuses the heritage of Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti with hiphop and contemporary multiculturalism around Ethiopian/Australian singer Enushu Taye and MC Mista Monk. We also...
Get drawn into a hiphop-driven combination of jazz and soul with powerful line punches in LIONꓘKLASH‘s native tongue, Mauritian Creole. Add ragga and reggae to the mix and you’ve got a powerful mash-up of contemporary Mauritian music. “Sanzman D’Akor”, album of the week on Radio Mukambo, is out on Babani...
On the isle of Crete, the ancient practice of dipping your bread in different sauces and dips is called “papara”. True to its music-as-sauce philosophy, Brussels-based groove formation M.CHUZI invites you to dip your ears into the sonic sauces that are on offer in the versatile menu of their debut,...
To many of the indigenous peoples of West-Africa, the fa represents the soul of their culture. On Fa, their first full-lenght album, Togo All Stars bring you the best of Western Africa’s past and present, from vaudou to afrobeat, highlife and funk. Our album of the week on Radio Mukambo....
