Enjoy a brand-new lockdown session by London Afrobeat Collective! For their second “home” video, the 9-piece ensemble hosted 4 special guests…Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, Barcelona-based Josep Blanes at the trombone, Ben Plocki and his bass sax, and trumpet player Sam Warner. ‘Tokomona’ (in its studio version) is...
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Twenty+ years after Fela Kuti‘s death, afrobeat seems to be more alive than ever! Over the past two decades, afrobeat bands have arisen in the four corners of the earth, some paying homage to Fela, other playing their own blend of afrobeat, mixing their roots with Fela Kuti and Tony...
Check out the new collaborative single by the late afrobeat legend Tony Allen and London-based rapper Lava La Rue extracted from the Nigerian drummer’s posthumous album There Is No End out now on Blue Note Records: https://tonyallen.lnk.to/ThereIsNoEnd “I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends.” The wisdom of...
The Voice of Lajorun is a Lagos-based afrobeat and afro-funk band. The 7-piece ensemble has recently released a new single via Color Red: https://thevoiceoflajorun.bandcamp.com/ ‘Omo Aye’ is a song “that addresses the hurdles of life and courage to move forward.”
Spicy Boom Boom by Balaphonics from France is album of the week on Radio Mukambo, a mix of balafon and other West-African influences with brass and afro-grooves. The podcast serves new singles by Esinam (Ghana/Belgium), Alex Figueira (Portugal/Venezuela), Rumble (France) Havana meets Kingston (Cuba/Jamaica). We discover DJ Grissino‘s new EP I’m...
M’berra is the story of a collective of Malian musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in southeast Mauritania meeting Italian producer and electro-shaman Khalab in a tent city rising out of the desert, out of nothingness, at the border with Mali in West Africa. Brought together by spirit and circumstance,...
Voy Pa’ Allá is our album of the week, delicious marimba music from the Colombian Pacific coast, not just made by a band but by a cultural institution: Semblanzas del Río Guapi. Out on Llorona Records. Radio Mukambo also serves afrobeat from Lagos (Nigeria) and Bahia (Brazil), musical patchworks by Jaguar...
Israeli ethio-jazz and funk band Hoodna Orchestra gave “the live treatment” to ‘Alem Alem’ extracted from their latest namesake album released in February on Agogo Records. The EP includes six “instrumental arrangements of songs by Ethiopia’s classic singers from the golden age of Ethiopian jazz and pop. These...
Breakout is the title of Echoes of Zoo‘s debut album, on which animals literally break out their cages on a soundtrack made of adrenaline fuelled jazz infused with an eclectic range of western, oriental and African influences, made in Brussels. Album of the week on Radio Mukambo. We also listen to...
In the new episode of Rendez-Vous a Bobo, Lucas makes a ‘rendez-vous’ with DJ, broadcaster, and label boss Gilles Peterson. Gilles highlights a few key tunes from West Africa in his record box, talks French radio, and managing a record label in 2021. Tracklist: • Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight...