This week we dive into the Golden Sixties and Seventies of highlife music with Oliver Nayoka, a Nigerian singer & guitarist, mixing highlife with heavy Congolese guitar. Aja Wele-Wele sounds like a vinyl coming straight from the ’70s but was made today, reshaping the history and conception of highlife earning himself...
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Check out the brand-new single & video by MC, songwriter and K.O.G. & the Zongo Brigade band member, Franz Von. In ‘Power Be You’, the Yorskshire-based Ghanaian musician follows the Afrofuturist rap steps of Roots Manuva, Little Simz and Kojey Radical to “honour his heritage whilst looking for ways of pushing...
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Tomorrow evening, Belgian-Ghanaian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Esinam will pay a visit to Rich Mix London to present her brand-new album Shapes in Twilights of Infinity, out on W.E.R.F. Records. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy her refined Afrofuturist electro-soul. Support by the collaborative electro-jazz project Nikitch & Kuna...
Since 2017, we have been lucky to have the opportunity to write about and shine a light on Esinam’s music career following it step-by-step and release-after-release. We started with her very first single (Electric Lady, in partnership with Belgian-Congolese imaginative musician and producer Ibaaku), followed a year later by her...
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...
Check out the new single by Accra-based singer/songwriter and MC M3nsa. Talking about the track, the hiplife and Afro-fusion artist explained, “the lyrics for the verses was just me looking for a mantra that allows me to continue ‘going’ when I feel I’ve got nothing else to offer and...
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. Umut Adan – Eflatun Kardeşler [from Eflatun...
Ghanaian singer/songwriter and rapper M.anifest joined forces with Chicago-based rapper Vic Mensa and afro-pop singer Moliy to release his first single of the year titled ‘No Fear’. More info here: https://lnk.to/MDotNoFear