In this week’s selection: a tribute to the city of Belém, an electro-funana compilation, Goldlink’s endorphic mixtape, Manu Dibango doing sound illustrations and much more… Dona Onete Rebujo Following the critical success of her 2017 album […]
The music was shot in Matroosfontein, a neighborhood in the city center of Cape Town where the artist grew up Catherine St Jude Pretorious aka Dope Saint Jude originates from Cape Town. After graduating in political sciences […]
Soundway Records reissues 1986’s cult cover of the British hit by Caribbean soca band Rebles, and announces a forthcoming soca compilation. In the late 1980’s, D’ Rebel’s Band aka Rebles where one of the main bands to shape and export […]
The UK’s underground music scene responds to the timeless and inimitable work of Jean-Michel Basquiat on a new compilation curated by Lonely Table, Anja Ngozi and The Vinyl Factory. Resistance bursting out of each of […]
Photo credit: Raymond Young A 6 track mini-album with the collaboration of Noel Williams aka King Sporty, best-known for his role as a co-writer on Marley’s classic “Buffalo Soldier.” In a career spanning over 50 […]
It all started that day when a younger brother – and a real gangster at that – burst into my “entrer-coucher” (literally “enter-and-lay-on-the-bed”, a house literally only big enough to place a bed). We’re somewhere in an […]
Always seeking for new Middle-Eastern sounds, Habibi funk unearthes an unreleased album from Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah. German record label Habibi Funk had access to the legendary Boussiphone studios to exhume some hidden treasures, thanks to […]
In 2018, the band from New-York celebrated its 20 years. As honorable heirs of Fela, the band is about to release a new record that draws as much in afrobeat as in ancient China. Kung-fu […]