“Gum Body” is a track off Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’ album featuring UK songstress Jorja Smith. One month after the torrid “Be Honest” collaboration, the two superstars are linking up once more for the clip, […]

With extra vocals by Voodoo, a member of the Ozadya collective. Nüfrika consists of Rolv.K & Pekodjinn, Swiss-based producers and Djs. Rolv.k originated from Sierra Leone and Pekodjinn from and Tunisia (North Africa). Gafacci is […]

The follow-up of her 2016’s debut album Fetish Bones is set to be released this fall Philadelphia-based artist, poet and musician Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, returns this November with a new album, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes. […]

Ballades is coming out this week. A new album of the legendary pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal is still a highly anticipated event. Yet when it’s a solo piano album, something Jamal has never done before. Featuring three […]

In this week’s selection: the Tamasheq blues of Tinariwen, the rise of Afro-Cuban artist Daymé Arocena, the debut album from British soul sensation Mahalia and much more to hear this week. Tinariwen Amadjar Recorded in the […]

  Cameroonian sax icon Manu Dibango’s 1982 LP Waka Juju is being reissued via Soul Makossa this winter. Originally released on CRC Records, Waka Juju mixes influences from afrobeat, highlife and jazz-funk across 6 tracks. After receiving world attention with the release […]

Tireless advocate of the women’s rights, and loud activist for the Afro-Brazilian culture, legend Elza Soares is releasing her 34th studio album Planeta Fome. Photo: Daryan Dornelles Born and raised in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Soares grew up […]

Fresh from a summer wowing crowds from Mexico to Greece, Hollie Cook dropped into the studio to bring us her latest single, “Dance in the Sunshine”. One year after her luxurious and third album Vessel […]