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Check out the new collaborative single by Northern California-based reggae roots group Groundation and legendary Jamaican bands Israel Vibration and The Abyssinians. The track is the first one extracted from Groundation’s tenth studio album titled One Rock and out in May via French label Baco Music and American Easy Star...
After winning three Grammys, it’s clear Cécile McLorin Salvant has been faced with artistic compromise. I felt she had sadly succumbed to sticking with her status quo. The performance felt bedded in her safe place. However she is a real master of reinventing songs and it’s her embodiment of every...
Judi Jackson is able to tease out more erotic energy from a crowd than eighteen months of lockdown boredom. Or maybe it’s the combination of both. This was a night packed with couples flirting, whispering and grinding. I was enchanted too, and just one worrying step away from trying to...
Combo Chimbita, a New York-based Latinx quartet of Colombian origin, just released a new single from their upcoming album IRE, out in January 2022 via ANTI-. As Carolina Oliveros, the lead singer of the ‘Tropicalfuturist’ band, explained, “Oya is a very powerful feminine deity, goddess of storms and winds, guardian of cemeteries, and...
From our personal experience, we never found it too hard to fall for local Cuban music traditions. Still, the musical infatuation is even more gratifying and intense when prompted and guided by a fully committed music researcher, journalist, podcaster and producer like Gianluca Tramontana. That’s how we approached changüí, the...
Check out the Spanish cover of Stick Figure‘s “World On Fire” by Miami-based reggae band Locos Por Juana.
Archie Shepp may not have executed his ideas with the same technical dexterity I imagine of earlier years. However in his mid-eighties, he still delivered a beautifully effectual experience that transcended any physical limitations. Alongside Jason Moran, their musical ideas revealed their reverence towards the plight of inequality and the complexities...
In this show we go deeper into jazz in its limitless facets and styles, although limited in time but never in space, we dive into spiritual jazz, funky jazz, afrobeat jazz, and afro-cuban jazz. We are one and music is the bridge to Oneness! Music is the glue that connects...
You don’t often have the opportunity to explore and delve into the cultural roots and family tree of a musician simply by listening to his music. With Cochemea, we were offered just that. His second album, Baca Sewa, which was released only a few days ago by Daptone Records, is...