Estilo Y Gracia pull “El Jamaiquino”, an old Cuban standard, back into focus with a new recording led by percussionist...
Latvian folk rock band Alum Alu record “Ederlezi” twice on one release. The traditional Roma spring song appears first as...
Bolero is built on longing. On “CTRL Z”, Sonora Tukukuy take that emotional core and set it over son rhythm...
French-Congolese singer Bahati Mabanza introduces his second single “Benga DJ” with the words “ndombolo to the world man”, tying it...
“Chakabacunga” is a cumbia single from Italian singer, guitarist and composer Arnaldo Prete, now living in Brussels. He calls it...
Radio Mukambo is back with a selection of nice stuff that came out the last few weeks. Afrobeat from France...
“Drop Top” opens on slow Hammond chords, a low guitar figure and drums at mid tempo. It is the second...
The live version of “Shej sukár” at Fonó Budai Zeneház in Budapest shows BashElán on home ground, playing the Roma...
A one-take cut to lacquer at Metropolis. Kokoroko record “Express Your Love” straight to vinyl, folding a 1970s soul plea...
“Alpha & Omega” is the title track from Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers’ brand-new four-song Alpha & Omega EP,...
Colonial borders cut Tuareg ancestral territory into Mali, Algeria, Libya and Niger. On Tinariwen’s “Imidiwan Takyadam”, that history is present...
Sea-facing devotion, sung in a circle. A ciranda is a roda dance-song from the coast of north-eastern Brazil, and on...