Le Guess Who? Festival: the way forward
Both uncompromising and genre-defying, the highly influential Le Guess Who? festival celebrated its 13th edition between November 7th - 10th...
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Both uncompromising and genre-defying, the highly influential Le Guess Who? festival celebrated its 13th edition between November 7th - 10th...
With Sahari, a more electronic-music-oriented fifth album, the emblematic musician and activist of the Sahrawi culture sings the pain and...
An experimental music video for Bantou Mentale debut album's main single, "Château Rouge". Afro-punk band Bantou Mentale composed of singer...
Thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld. Bantou Mentale is bringing a new punk rock, African style, to the table but without the...
The Saharawi singer-songwriter and activist Aziza Brahim returns for her 3rd Glitterbeat album following the critically acclaimed, Abbar El Hammad,...
A highly energetic and psychedelic music video, as a preview for their forthcoming EP on Glitterbeat Records, No Romance. Bantou Mentale comes from the meeting of...
The French-Italian-Tunisian band is back with a new album titled Laylet el Booree to be released on April 5th on Glitterbeat Records....
The power trio is back with Black Tenere, a radical new album. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef, the mastermind...
WOMEX – the World Music Expo – is the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference...
For their 4th album, Quebra Cabeça, the Brazilian afrobeat big band bring forward more complexity to their musical puzzle and...
The afro-dub ensemble Fofoulah, have followed-up their trailblazing debut album with an even more shapeshifting and adventurous recordings. The new...
Legendary guitarist and vocalist from Mali Samba Touré, is about to release his fifth album, Wande which comes out on May 25...
Date: April 12, 2018 Director: Ahmed Ayed Costumes: Sia Rosenberg Check the new visuals for AMMAR 808's track, "Boganga &...
Bargou 08' sonic mastermind announces his debut album on Glitterbeat Records. Update: listen to the album here. AMMAR 808 is a...
After four years of absence, Sonido Gallo Negro is about to release its next album, an exotic version of frenzied sounds...
PAM's music critics share their nominations for the best Pan-African albums of the year. The list below is made up of...
TootArd are a young, trailblazing ensemble from the occupied Golan Heights who deftly fuse Levant-tinted desert blues, melodic psych-rock, morphed reggae and...
The 4th installment of Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series is dedicated to one of Africa’s most endangered peoples, Abatwa. Rough-hewn, tribal...
Afro-Tunisian ritual trance meets nomadic Western post-industrial punk. Convulsed children's bodies, their faces turned towards the sky and their eyes...
Awarded five time in a row as label of the year at the Womex 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 the...
From Glitterhouse to Glitterbeat, here is the african playlist of a creative record label. Glitterbeat is a record label founded...
Bargou08's Targ take World Music to another level. Bargou is a forgotten place lying between the mountains of northwest Tunisia and the...
Born in Bolgatanga in rural Ghana, King Ayisoba was a prodigy on the kologo (a lute with numerous variants across West Africa),...