This week we travel to the Sahara desert in Niger to dance to some Touareg blues by Les Filles de Illighadad and Dag Tenere, both serving their own blend of Tamasheq sounds. Iswat by Dag Tenere (“the desert’s children”) is our album of the week. Radio Mukambo also takes you to...
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‘Atomic Bomb’ is extracted from Bukky Leo‘s upcoming album Bukky Leo and Black Egypt Presents The Legend of William Onyeabor. “A unique live interpretation of some of William Onyeabor greatest hits”. Find out more here: https://bukkyleoandblackegypt.bandcamp.com/…/atomic-bomb-2
On their debut album “Round”, Rumble interweaves samples from all walks of life and from all eras. Confusing musical universes, traveling from old school hiphop to digital boom bap, combining trip hop with bass music & dancehall. The French hiphoppers’ debut is album of the week on Radio Mukambo, out...
Radio Mukambo serves a Swedish cumbia band mixing analogue sound with brass and Beastie Boys energy: Cumbiasound‘s debut EP Maquina is our album of the week. We announce Jam’in Jette on tour at FIRM with Daniel Dzidzonu (afrobeat), Azmari (ethiogrooves) coming to Brosella XXS. Furthermore we listen to new afrobeat...
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Balimaya Project is a 16-piece ensemble led by percussionist Yahael Camara Onono featuring musicians from the African diaspora in London and counting on members from acts like KOKOROKO and Seed Ensemble. The mission of the project is to bring forward the West African music tradition, blending it with jazz...
This show is a trip through world music and global beats searching for the Oneness in humanity, regardless of all geographical, political, economic and all kinds of divisions, and identifications we might all have, in these times of uncertainties we search for Unity. The unity that music brings to us…...
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...
Kologo is far more than a two-stringed traditional lute from North-Eastern Ghana. It’s one of the most eloquent cultural expressions of the Frafra people and, to some extent, a way of life. In 2014, Arnold de Boer, music enthusiast, singer, guitarist (The Ex/Zea) and founder of Makkum Records, who arguably...
Enjoy ‘New Dawn’, the new song (and video) by Brussels-based Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Esinam featuring London-based artist Nadeem Din-Gabisi. The track, which is also the first single extracted from Esinam upcoming debut LP (WERF Records), is “inspired by Ghanaian afrobeat and results in a mix of Afro-urban-flute-jazz: the power of...
Muito Kaballa‘s second album Mamari, the first one with the Power Ensemble, is album of the week on Radio Mukambo. Jazzy afrobeat made in Cologne (Germany). The podcast also serves touareg rock, Brazilian rap, Ghanaian afrofuturism, rubacumbia, French hip-hop, Ethiopian tradition embracing the sound of machines and some heavy dub...