Two musicians bore the name, Joseph Kamaru, a grandfather and titan of Kenyan folk lost to time and an ambient musician grandson in the midst of his destiny.

Our week’s selection includes a rebajada compilation, Tuareg blues, Mzukulu’s latest, the good vibes of Trazyx and the afrofuturist techno of Dopplereffekt.

Jazz Is Dead welcomes its eleventh edition with Tony Allen, Lonnie Linston Smith, and Jean Carne under the direction of Californian multi-instrumentalist producer Adrian Younge and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed […]

An introduction to the collective that is shining a spotlight on buried Eritrean masterpieces online and in-person for a celebration of culture and heritage.  

The New Jersey-based duo just unveiled “Totally Spies,” the chilling first single for the LP Nothing To Declare.  Based in Philadelphia since 2012, DJ Haram is a key figure of the New Jersey Noise scene. […]

New York-based Cairo DJ Yas Meen Selectress creates a groovy PAM Club that cleverly combines the sounds of the Arab world with sound system culture. Yas Meen grew up in Cairo surrounded by local commercial […]

Essiebons Special 1973 – 1984 Analog Africa For most of the 1970s, Dick Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and the producer’s roster made for a who’s-who of […]

Musicians have always travelled. Willy N’for had all the necessary ingredients to want to travel, a troubled past, a complicated life, dexterity with the bass guitar, and an appetite for travelling on the interstellar grooves of funk, with dreams of jamming with giants.