It’s the first week of the year so time to treat you to the best albums of 2021. A global trip that will take you from Colombian Pacific tot a refugee camp in the desert, from adrenaline fuelled jazz to the Beastie Boys making cumbia in the Congo. Ethiogrooves, Latin...
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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...
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: The 65th episode of our monthly compilation focuses its attention...
This week we fly to the Congo to make sure that Black Ants Always Fly Together, One Bangle Makes No Sound. A surrealistic title for the fourth full-length album by the legendary Congolese polyrhythmic trance collective Kasai Allstars, our album of the week out on Crammed Discs. We check more...
Nightshop show May 2021 for Radio Campus Bxl & Rhythm Passport with 3 hours of new global sounds. Four songs of the day from Cape Verdian violins to a Sinti rom cello song, tamashek blues and electronic Latin-Arab bass. Our albums of the month first take us to Africa, with...
Pancada Motor: Transformação e Cura is the 7th album by DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar from São Paulo (Brazil), a breed of Brazilian field recordings made between 2007 and 2019 and recordings with traditional and modern musicians during trips around the world. Calling for “Transformation and Cure”: the...
Afro-electro duo Montparnasse Musique, formed by Algerian producer Nadjib Ben Bella (Les Amazones d’Afrique) and South African DJ Aero Manyelo, just released their debut single ‘Panter’. The track, which also features Kinshasa-based collective Kasai Allstars, is out now on Real World X, an imprint of Real World Records and you...
Preview of the album: Track List: 1. Hoodna Orchestra – Alem feat. Demisu Belete 00:00 – 04:34 2. Paul Weller – Mother Ethiopia Part 3 (No Tribe No Colour) feat. Krar Collective [Parlophone Records] 04:35 – 08:05 3. BRZZVLL – Waiho [Sdban Ultra] 08:06 – 11:24 4. The Mouse Outfit feat. IAMDDB & Fox –...
