“The Road Is Never Easy”. Just ask BCUC, channeling the spirit of Soweto for over twenty years, with indigenous funk,...
A sustained note from a duduk, a plucked rhythm on the tar, and a melody that circles back on...
A bassline sits deep and bounces hard, spring reverb snaps across the top, and General Pecos narrates a world where...
A Kongo dance rhythm slides between merengue, zouk and soukous on “Ayayay”, a carnival song in Haitian Creole that celebrates...
“Acordeón rebelde, tu sonido / Hace bailar,” sing Calle Mambo and Kumbia Boruka on “Acordeón Rebelde.” The track, released on...
A synth line from a 2022 UTO track, now sung in Spanish with French-Colombian artist Ëda Diaz, with layered vocals...
“Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, adiós mis amigos, Jesús y María.” Woody Guthrie wrote those names into “Plane Wreck...
Chiminyo‘s “Technicals Inside” comes from NRG 5, the fifth entry in the drummer’s live improvisation series, recorded at Peckham Levels in...
A samba that starts with a guitar riff and becomes a manifesto against competitive masculinity: “Sem Macho Alfa” is the...
Lots of beats on Radio Mukambo this week with Skarra Mucci x Manudigital‘s Ragga Blasta, Dark Patterns by French hiphop duo...
Tim Etchells reads a text about a room where everything keeps getting heavier: objects, thoughts, the walls themselves, until nothing...
Pimienta Records is a new reggae label and production project based in Barcelona, founded by musician and producer Ares Català....