This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
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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...
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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,...
It’s Earth day and there’s nothing to celebrate, but much to fight for… Get some momentum going with London-based producer and DJ Carthnage‘s new single “La Sequía” featuring Argentinian singer/songwriter and beatmaker Dat Garcia out now on Salgari Records: https://salgarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/carthnage-feat-dat-garci-a-la-sequi-a-ep “From the hyperuranium of Argentinian folktronic, the mesmerizing and ancestral...
Check out a live rendition of ‘Cumbia del Pichamán’ by Bogotà-based experimental and psychedelic cumbia band Meridian Brothers. The song, a very Meridian Brothers’s version of Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man”, is extracted from the band’s latest album Cumbia Siglo XXI and released by Bongo Joe Records: https://meridianbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/cumbia-siglo-xxi...
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...
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In ‘Pedacito de Coco’, French dub and jungle producer Krak in Dub fully expresses his love for Colombian music collaborating with Bogotá-based trio La Perla. The single is extracted from Krak in Dub’s brand-new album Catleya out on May 21 via Galletas Calientes Records which was entirely recorded in Bogotá...
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...
On Friday, Colombian multi-instrumentalist and producer Mente Orgánica will release his new album on Earthly Measures. El Espacio, which is the first LP published by the London-based label, is a “beautifully crafted album with glorious textures, steady grooves, calming vibes & a dancefloor filler or two”. More info...