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50 years after they disbanded, London-based collective Cymande are back with a grave and infectiously groovy record. It’s another turn...
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Moonchild Sanelly’s career has been on the rise for some time. With her new album, Full Moon, the Port Elizabeth-born...
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Album Review: Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – JID022 [Jazz Is Dead; January 2025]
Ebo Taylor’s legacy is assured. Not only has his back catalogue been preserved in high fidelity, reissued, and even sampled...
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Tokyo ten-piece Ajate uses the portmanteau ‘Afrobayashi’ to describe their original fusion of traditional Ohayashi music (played during Japanese ancestral...
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Synthetic Hearts is the second volume of a collaboration between self-described “songcatcher” Msaki and multi-hyphenate creative Tubatsi Mpho Moloi. The result...
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Arriving 15 years after the original deep dive, Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues, which curated the...
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Kaya Project is a duo comprising musicians Sebastian James Taylor and Natasha Chamberlain, who have been blending oriental motifs with...
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Since their formation in 2012, the Berber band Tarwa N-Tiniri has been on a mission to “perpetuate the culture and...
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Antwerp’s Kolonel Djafaar has taken the opportunity of their first full-length release with London’s mighty Batov Records to break free...
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Italian musician Dario Bassolino released his debut album, Città Futura. In it, he reinterprets the soundtrack to the cult films...
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You will not hear Japanese instruments or Asian motifs here, as the Cho Co Pa Co Cho Co Quin Quin‘s...
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For her fourth studio album, released via Brownswood Recording, Daymé Arocena returns to the Caribbean, choosing Puerto Rico over her...