We met with Sampa The Great, Zambian female poet and rapper who has just released the mixtape Birds And The BEE9 on UK label Big Dada. Sampa Tembo’s music sounds like a mysterious and spiritual […]

JAI/MAHL is Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being)’s new project. His EP The Message of Zipf is released via new french record label TV Showw. With the help of his mentors Adonis and Steve Poindexter, Jamal Moss […]

Soul Jazz Records puts the light on the beginning of Dancehall with new compilation Studio One Supreme: Maximum 70s and 80s Early Dancehall Sounds. By the 1970s Studio One and Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already […]

Inside a medieval castle and under the star-lighted sky of the Portuguese Atlantic coast, singer Oumou Sangaré and her musicians entertain a very mixed audience – in style, age and social class. At the same […]

We talked to one of the Hot Casa Records’s two founder, Julien Lebrun. The label mainly offers 1970s afro funk reissues and also welcomes today’s productions of artists who pick up the funk torch.

EA Wave is the new collective spreading in East Africa by means of their electric blend of house, trap, hip-hop and downtempo.

Oddisee releases The Iceberg the february 24th on Mello Music Group.

Reissue of the original Amha Records compilation that revolutionized the Ethiopian society 44 years ago. A great alternative for ethio-jazz lovers who cannot afford to pay for the hard-to-find 1972 record. When it comes to Ethiopian music […]