Thirty-fifth album and counting, the 75-year-old musician is about to release yet another record, Hi-life Jazz, in which he revisits works by John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis. Born in 1947, ten […]

Brussel-born Congolese artist Nyati Mayi and Belgian based producer DJ soFa, aka the Astral Synth Transmitter, joined forces to record their debut album Lulanga Tales. They had known each other for a longtime, but the […]

Love Is Pain Venom x ShiShiliza Pretoria-based hip hop DJ Venom and Joburg-based producer ShiShiliza, aka BashVision better known as Bash drop, jointly releases Love is Pain. The 13-song amapiano LP is very much a […]

British producer Adrian Sherwood, along with artist Kerieva McCormick, are part of the project in which he co-produced ten tracks featuring the vibrancy, richness and energy of female reggae artists’s music. Reggae has often been […]

Luaka Bop honours Nigerian musician Alhaji Waziri Oshomah with a compilation of his songs recorded between the 1970s and 1980s, an introduction to his spiritual dance music inspired by Ghanaian highlife. Originally from Afenmailand, in […]

The Ninja Tune signee will bring together 12 tracks of her electro-pop underground music on her first album Capricorn Sun, out October 7th.  A new face of the London house scene, TSHA has been turning […]

This week, Spice sets herself free, BNXN comes clean, Serge Ibaka goes from basketball to rap, Yanna Momina introduces us to the Afar musical tradition and Jinku concludes his autobiographical trilogy.

How time flies… Just a month after the end of the Nyege Nyege Festival in Paris the unhinged crew is already warming up for East Africa’s biggest festival. Last July was only a taste of […]