Afro-Tunisian ritual trance meets nomadic Western post-industrial punk. Convulsed children’s bodies, their faces turned towards the sky and their eyes rolling back, people chanting until exhaustion, their feet beating the ground… loud percussions, sometimes slow, […]

We talked to one of the Hot Casa Records’s two founder, Julien Lebrun. The label mainly offers 1970s afro funk reissues and also welcomes today’s productions of artists who pick up the funk torch.

Brazilian samba eventually rediscovers its political meaning through São Paulo-based rapper Criolo, with the first single of his new album “Espiral de Ilusão” (spiral of illusion), available today.

INTERVIEW. Binhanquinhe Quimor is simply Binhan, singer and composer from Guinea-Bissau, who, since 2008 has denounced the social and political misery of his country.

“São Vicente is a little Brazil / Full of joy and colours / During these three wild days / There are no brawls, it is the carnival / A conviviality [morabeza], to be found nowhere […]

Dakhla Sahara Session is the unvarnished anti-world musical account of a rough between two very different bands: Group Doueh and Cheveu.

In Luanda, Portuguese taxi drivers wouldn’t take you wherever you want if you were Black…

Back in 1988, when post-punk and no-wave already had their acme time in the US and Europe, some Brazilian musicians archly revelled in the genre, not without great provocation.