As Craft Recordings kicks off their series of vinyl re-releases, John Coltrane’s emblematic album, Lush Life (released in 1961 on Prestige Records) is given the first spot. Craft Recordings launches the release of Small Batch, […]

Former member of Guy One’s band and chorister for Alogte Oho and its Sounds of Joy, Florence Adooni has unveiled a two-track solo EP which transports us to the savannahs of northern Ghana where the […]

Set sail for Brazil, Cape Verde, the Caribbean and Angola for a neo-tropicalist voyage on the eponymous single from the forthcoming Navegar, by this son of a pastor from Ipanema.  Driven by the winds of […]

With the release of the 5-track EP, Fire Eater, the Parisian combo affirms its pronounced taste for adventurous mixes with a unique blend of hip hop, afrobeat and jazz. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra, Oghene Kologbo, […]

According to this compilation by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuban music from 1975-1985 came in many forms: jazz, funk, tropicalia, disco and salsa … The list of new musical genres that emerged during this […]

Gilles Peterson’s label has been exchanging treasures with the great Beninese label, Albarika, and has unveiled  two reissues from the end of the seventies, when the band was at the height of its power. It’s […]

In their new clip, “Marvin Gueye,” from their EP 55 Degrees, the Boukan Records duo delivers a clip full of grace and sensuality. An astonishing softness emanates from this fountain of youth and energy. Like […]

A songwriter, producer and singer of Malagasy origin, Jo Raharison is following in the footsteps of the legends of American RnB in a first EP with English vocals. Carried by a new and ambitious generation, […]