A selection of our favorite albums and EPs released this week. With Blick Bassy, KOKOROKO, Duke, Jerico, Fuse ODG and R2Bees. Photo credit: Justice Mukheli Blick Bassy 1958 Four years after releasing “Akö”, the singer and […]

Gerald Toto has released “Away Alive” the first single off of his forthcoming album Sway. We last heard Gerald Toto on the sublime 2017 trio album Bondeko, recorded with fellow global travellers Lokua Kanza and […]

  Inspired by 1920’s Harlem Renaissance movement.  “Angeli-ko” is Mélissa’s reinterpretation of a song about the American occupation of Haiti, originally performed by Haitian troubadour Auguste L’Instant de Pradines in the early part of the […]

Sampha has remixed the “Minata Waraba” track of Oumou Sangaré’s latest album Mogoya. The version appears on a remixed LP of Mogoya, which will arrive March 2 via No Format!. Listen below. The track is built on […]

Mélissa Laveaux releases her third album, Radyo Siwel. Sung exclusively in Creole, the album is a tribute to her Haitian heritage. French version published for the the first time the February 6th 2018 Photo: Romain Staros Staropoli […]

Trio Toto Bona Lokua works with animation director Katy Wang for ‘Ma Mama’, their current single lifted from forthcoming album Bondeko. A collaboration between Gerald Toto, Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza, Toto Bona Lokua have today […]

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent announces Radyo Siwèl, her second album on french label No Format. After doing research on United States occupation of Haiti for her upcoming album Radyo Siwèl, Mélissa Laveaux pays tribute to […]

‘Ma Mama’ is the first single of Toto Bona Lokuanew album Bondeko. 13 years later, trio’s alchemy is still working. Martinican Gérald Toto, Cameroonian Richard Bona and Congolose Lokua Kanza made one of No Format’s founder albums […]