Download this exclusive FREE Rhythm Passport album TODAY! Preview of the album: The 65th episode of our monthly compilation focuses its attention on Central and Western African sounds. From Congo (Kasai Allstars & Mulele Matondo Afrika) to Ivory Coast (Kasfelgues) via Nigeria (Oliver Nayoka) and Ghana (Seaboy) setting out...
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Check out “O Fogo” the first single extracted from Belgian alt-jazz and fusion band Black Flower‘s upcoming album out in early 2022 via Sdban Records: https://link.sdbanrecords.com/OFogo “Organ and flute move like a dancing flame to the almost naive groove, giving the track a feeling of lightness and positivity. We...
Out Of Africa A trip into world music through an African perspective, insight and inspiration! We all came from Africa! In this show, we travel from Congo's beautiful voices, Franco and its famous O.K Jazz Orchestra, jazz from Ethiopia, the famous ethio-jazz, with its oriental expressions, and South African jazz, with...
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: Track List: 1. Mungo’s Hi Fi x Gardna & Catching Cairo –...
New release on Batov Records for Belgian ethio-jazz and afro-funk band Kolonel Djafaar. “Formed in 2016, the band earned their stripes whipping crowds into a frenzy with a big band brass, Ethio-jazz meets Afrobeat sound, influenced by Mulatu Astatke, Budos Band, and Fela Kuti”. Check out ‘Recording...
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...
‘Nefas New Zemedie’ is extracted from a “newly unearthed” album by Hailu Mergia out in early June on Awesome Tapes From Africa. “Tezeta is the first full length album by The Walias Band recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label […] Sourced by Awesome Tapes From Africa...
The first daily discovery of the week comes from Italy and it’s the brand-new single by Milan-based afro-jazz and fusion quartet The Invisible Session. After a 15 years hiatus, The Invisible Session are back with a new album titled “Echoes Of Africa”, a very personal homage to African music, out...
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It was a breath of fresh air to receive this excellent album to review. Set against a background of recent unrest in Ethiopia triggered by the killing of controversial musician Haacaaluu Hundeessa in Addis Ababa on 29th June this year, the album Afropentatonism (out in early July on Piranha Records) by...