Last year Groovalizacion Radio selected monthly the best albums for you. What better way to celebrate the new year than looking back at these fine albums from 2017? Out of our selections, we distilled a top 20 from the past year. The higher the album is ranked, the more it is supported by our curators.
Listen to our handy mixtape below to discover these albums and our favourite tracks.
Our top 20 Best albums of 2017:
Check out ‘Fake Blood’ new single by Puerto Rican ensemble ÌFÉ extracted from their upcoming album 0000+0000, available from November 5th via Discos Ifá & Mais Um: https://grupoife.bandcamp.com “In a stunning live performance video, ÌFÉ returns with an explosive new track FAKE BLOOD – inspired in part by Adam Curtis’ HyperNormalization and…
Artists: ÌFÉ
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:
Artists: Caoilfhionn Rose , Combo Chimbita , Criolo , Don Zilla , Juana Molina , Lagartijeando , Lakou Mizik , Las Cafeteras , Martin Bruhn , Matteo , Oum , Priya Darshini , Rael , Rawayana , Rodrigo Leao , Yemi Alade
Ten years of making radio and 500 podcasts, that’s what Mukambo is celebrating this week. So we have a special program talking you through the very vest albums of those ten years. Get ready for a trans-Atlantic trip going from Africa over Latin America to Europe, and a pan-African ride…
Artists: Batida , Dele Sosimi , Dizzy Mandjeku , Doña Onete , Ebo Taylor , Gaspar Z'África , Guts , Gyedu-Blay Ambolley , Jungle Fire , Konono N1 , London Afrobeat Collective , Michi Sarmiento , Mulatu Astatke , Newen Afrobeat , Oghene Kologbo , Raúl Monsalve , Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos , Rocky Marsiano , Seun Kuti , Son Palenque , The Bongo Hop
Check out the latest single by Argentinian musician, producer and DJ Lagartijeando. In ‘Sideral Cumbia’, Mati Zundel reworks traditional cumbia rhythms adding “minimalist drums, a bouncing bassline, echoes upon echos of synth, staccato guitar and even some mbira before coming back to earth momentarily for a swelling horn section”. …
Artists: Lagartijeando
Guedra Guedra‘s debut LP Vexillology is kicking down borders, offering listeners an experience made from hypnotic and rhythmic arrangements rooted in ancient cultures. From his Casablanca studio, the Moroccan genre-defying producer serves an elevation of tribal consciousness and underground futurism. Vexillology is album of the week on Radio Mukambo, out on On…
Artists: Ancient Astronauts , Brothers of Brass , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Guedra Guedra , IKOQWE , Matjé , Nubiyan Twist , Son Palenque
Plenty of Afro-Colombian music on Radio Mukambo this week. Starting with the marimba and percussion driven Batea, debut album by Bejuco, a powerful band rooted in the Colombian Pacific with a fresh and contemporary feeling. We also listen to a new single by Abelardo Carbono x Meridian Brothers and a…
Artists: Abelardo Carbono , Bejuco , Dj Kobayashi , DJ Tudo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Gabacho Maroc , Gansan , Irie Ites , Mario y sus Diamantes , NOMÅGIK , Shiran , Sir Jean and NMB Afrobeat Experience , Son Palenque
“El Hal” is the feeling that comes when playing music, forgetting where you are. The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove. A title that says it all about the third album from the London/Moroccan collective Electric Jalaba around Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo…
Artists: Bejuco , David Cairol , Echoes of Zoo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Kady Diarra , La Fuerza Mayor , Osayomore Joseph And The Creative Seven , Punta Diamante , Son Palenque
Specially for International Women’s Day, this podcast is entirely dedicated to women’s voices. And for the first time in 10 years, basically all tracks come from Be My Voice, a NYP Records-compilation by Global Riddims and Mukambo. Discover 15 female artists from around the world fighting for female rights and…
Artists: Belen Natali , Bomba Estereo , Chalart58 , Dawtas of Aya , Doña Onete , Huw Marc Bennett , Insólito Universo , Instigator Afrobeat Orchestra , Ko Shin Moon , La Dame Blanche , Liraz , Malecon , Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde , Terrakota
This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you…
Artists: Hasan Nakhleh , Safe and Sounds , TootArd![Album Review: TootArd – Migrant Birds [Glitterbeat Records; May 2020]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tootard-migrant-birds-620x620.jpg)
Tootard is one of my favourite bands, their combination of Middle Eastern tonalities: the maqqam scales, with Caribbean reggae and western funk and disco – is not only original, but innovative. Migrant Birds is their third studio album, out on the hit churners Glitterbeat Records. The brother duo Hasan and…
Artists: TootArd
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some…
Artists: Abdul And The Gang , Altın Gün , Anthony Joseph , Benjamin Zephaniah , Criolo , Dj Firmeza , Dj Lilocox , Dj Lycox , Kel Assouf , Orchestra Baobab , Sarathy Korwar , Shabaka Hutchings , Shingai , The Heliocentrics , Valia Calda
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some…
Artists: Aar Manta , Afrikan Boy , Ayanna Witter-Johnson , Bcuc , Carleen Anderson , Dj Khalab , Femina , Guts , Isaac Birituro , Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon , Jambinai , Judi Jackson , Killah Priest , Kodjovi Kush & Afrospot Orchesta , Nicola Cruz , Nuri , Reginald Omas Mamode lV , Sama , Shkoon , Simo Lagnawi , Skabba , Tarantola , Tenesha The Wordsmith , Terri Walker , The Rolling Shakers , TootArd , Yolanda Brown
View Groovalizacion Radio bio here Bounty Radio – Bass Without Frontiers “I grew up with the sounds of Jungle and Drum and Bass. I became interested in the origins of Ragga Jungle and dived deep into Reggae and Dub. From there my love for Caribbean music grew. Various genres of Afro-Diasporic…
Artists: Bounty Radio , Groovalizacion Radio
View Lagartijeando bio here We always prefer to let the music “do the talking”, and when it comes to DJs and producers, this means featuring their selections. So, we have seized the opportunity, and to celebrate and introduce you to his latest release (Revisión) for Big in Japan, we…
Artists: Coro Qom Chelaalapi , Lagartijeando
It was another triumphant weekend at Walthamstow Garden Party. Sunbathing in glorious weather and indulging in radiant notes played by brilliant musicians, we enjoyed every minute of it. From its debut, basking in Saturday’s early afternoon heat with London African Gospel Choir and their rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland, until Sunday…
Artists: Adrian Sherwood , Adrian Sherwood And Creation Rebel , Afro Cuban All Stars , Creation Rebels , Doña Onete , Fatoumata Diawara , Seun Kuti , Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
It wasn’t the first time that we had experienced and enjoyed a Doña Onete gig, still, she blew us away. Throughout her latest London show – which was organised by Movimientos and Mama Sound and took place at Rich Mix on the 17th of July – her energy and kaleidoscopic…
Artists: Doña Onete , Saulo Duarte
Worcester-born Will Holland aka Quantic returns to Manchester off the back of the recent Quantic y Los Míticos del Ritmo ‘Hotline Bling’ single, an inspired accordion band cover of Drake backed with the more electronic leaning ‘Doombia’. Holland is certainly prolific – a talented bandleader, producer and DJ, the multi-instrumentalist…
Artists: Quantic
View Groovalizacion Radio bio here In his latest mix, Global Riddims brings you lots of afrobeat and Afro-Brazilian music, new and old generation, not forgetting about jazz & funk! Track list: Shaka – Podes Cher 00:00 Milton Nascimento – Louva a Deus (Black Classical Amazonia Edit) [On The Corner Records]…
Artists: Global Riddims , Groovalizacion Radio
View Groovalizacion Radio bio here Bounty Radio – The Glow The Glow is named after the spectacular neon glow of bioluminescent plankton who turn coastlines at night into an almost club-like space. With its tribal and organic ingredients fused with slow and sexy elements from hip-hop, tropical bass, zouk bass, nueva…
Artists: Bounty Radio , Groovalizacion Radio
There are hardly any better ways with which to illustrate the concept of ‘upbeat’ than by narrating a TootArd show. The band, hailing from the Golan Heights, with its heartening music, are the best answer to the decades of political troubles and social struggles burdening the region, and one of…
Artists: TootArd
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