Listen to the song “Taqkal Tarha” featuring Micah Nelson off Amadjar. Photo by Marie Planeille Tuareg band Tinariwen are back this year with Amadjar, their first new album since 2017’s Elwan. Forthcoming on September 6th via ANTI-RECORDS. Listen to the first track […]
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 […]
Three years after the critically-acclaimed Konnichiwa, Skepta is releasing his fifth studio album Ignorance Is Bliss. The 13-track album features artists such as British-Gambian MC J Hus, rising star Nafe Smallz and Lay-Z with Wizkid on the […]
It’s mostly on WhatsApp that South African gqom music is traded today, to such an extent that producers, artists and audiences got massively involved in the messaging service, now a defining place for the creative […]
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 […]
Half-German, half-South African band Seba Kaapstad blends genres and cultures in a second shiny neo-soul album. Berlin and Cape Town have never been closer on the musical map than they are now with this project born […]
The Tema-born rapper Kwesi Arthur is Africa’s brightest prospect and his latest project echoes the truism of that sentiment. One of the more prophetic moments in hip-hop history was in 1995, when one half of […]
A 50 years career and one more album in his catalogue. It Rains Love comes to consolidate the “soul survivor” status of Lee Fields, the most contemporary old school singer of our time. We met […]