Djiboutian vocalist Yanna Momina introduces Afar Ways with American producer Ian Brennan. This guarded musical tradition showcased in this 8-track album highlights the singer’s shrill voice. Back in 2018, Ian Brennan set on a journey […]

Afrofuturist Ugandan griot, Faizal Mostrixx, continues his avant-garde, multi-sensory disciplines on latest EP, Transitions, to be released on Glitterbeat Records. Faizall Mostrixx has been behind some of East Africa’s hottest electronica and counter-cultural rhythms for […]

The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar are set to release their latest album entitled Dancing Under the Moon on Glitterbeat Records. 

The violin – in all its forms – undoubtably plays a major role in the music of the African continent. Here we present an overview of the stringed instrument, played by those who made it famous in the past, as well as those who celebrate its resonance today.

The Tel Aviv-based band is set to release a new album played on home-made instruments and inspired by a longing of their home country.  Here’s what Eyal el Wahab, El Khat’s band leader, has to […]

Liye Liye La Roche La Roche’s new project has the objective of painting “a vivid, pineal tickling four dimensional picture of Congolese culture in 2022”. To do so, the Fulu Miziki producer immersed himself in […]

Mortel-06 Innoss’B On his sophomore release, Congolese heavyweight Innoss’B displays once again his versatility, over 15 new tracks. The singer-songwriter’s Mortel-06 is a cocktail of rumba, ndombolo, Afropop, hip-hop, Afrohouse, R&B and traditional Congolese instrumentation, […]

The Belgian-Burkinabe trio has just released “Le repas du cobra”, their first track, via the notorious Glitterbeat Records.  Avalanche Kaito is the meeting between Kaito Winse, a Burkinabe urban griot, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, and a […]