{"id":41660,"date":"2019-06-14T16:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/8-albums-you-need-to-hear-this-week\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:08","slug":"albums-week-14-06-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/albums-week-14-06-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"8 albums you need to hear this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this week’s selection:\u00a0a tribute to the city of Bel\u00e9m, an electro-funana compilation, Goldlink’s endorphic mixtape, Manu Dibango doing sound illustrations and much more…<\/h4>\n
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Dona Onete<\/b><\/h5>\n

Rebujo
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\nFollowing the critical success of her 2017 album Banzeiro<\/em>, \u2018Queen of the Amazon’ Dona Onete returns with her third album Rebujo<\/em>. With a poignant voice Onete channels high energy bangues as well as a cumbia, brega and samba. “Rebujo” is a local slang for the currents in the Amazon river that carry silt and nutrients from the river bed into the water, feeding its inhabitants and giving the river it’s muddy colour \u2013 however, as it gives, it also takes, and the rebujo can easily overpower even the most experienced swimmer.
\nOnete is now one of Brazil\u2019s most in-demand touring artists with a packed schedule throughout Brazil and an increasing global profile that has seen her perform at some of the most respected international music festivals such as Roskilde, Womad, TFF Rudolstadt, Rainforest World Music, FMM Sines and Chicago World Music.<\/p>\n

Listen to it\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grupo Pilon<\/h5>\n

Leite Quente Funana\u0301 de Cabo Verde<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Grupo Pilon: Leite Quente Funana\u0301 de Cabo Verde<\/em> follows Ostinato\u2019s Synthesize the Soul<\/em>, a compilation of electronic music during 1973 \u2013 1988. A period where the archipelago musicians incorporated electronic instruments into the local production, in a blend that gave birth to Cape Verde\u2019s own version of electronic music, echoing the euphoria of a newly-gained freedom.
\nGrupo Pilon represents the second generation of musicians who contributed to one of the most lush periods of cultural innovation by immigrants in Europe. In Luxembourg, in 1986, a group of teenagers formed the largely unknown (outside of Cape Verdean circles) but consistently brilliant band named after the blunt instrument used in the islands to pound corn for Cabo Verde\u2019s national dish, cachupa.<\/p>\n

Stream and order it\u00a0here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Octavian<\/b><\/h5>\n

Endorphins<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

London-based rapper and producer Octavian is back with a new mixtape, Endorphins<\/em>. Following his 2018 mixtape SPACEMAN<\/em>, the 12-track project see him collaborate with heavyweights such as Smokepurpp, Skepta, Jessie Ware, A$AP Ferg and Theophilus London. The visuals for \u201cFeel it\u201d, the single featuring the later, has already been released as weel.<\/p>\n

Stream it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gyedu Blay Ambolley<\/b><\/h5>\n

Ambolley<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Singer, songwriter, producer, interpreter, multi-instrumentalist, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is the most notable voices in highlife considered as the king of hiplife, a musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop.<\/p>\n

Originally released in 1982 by the WEA International label and then again in Germany in 1985 by Ambolley himself,\u00a0this reissue by Mr Bongo embodies perfectly Ambolley’s sound : a balanced blend of highlife, boogie and disco.<\/p>\n

Stream and order it\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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GoldLink\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Diaspora\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 26 year-old D.C native\u00a0D\u2019Anthony Carlos, aka Goldlink, releases his second studio album, Diaspora.\u00a0<\/em>Following 2017’s\u00a0At What Cost,\u00a0<\/em>this new effort features several collaborations with heavyweights such as Wizkid, Tyler, The Creator, Jay Prince and Maleek Berry with Bibi Bourelly on the single\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Zulu Screams<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb released a few weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stream it here\u00a0ici<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Manu Dibango<\/strong><\/h5>\n

African Voodoo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recorded in 1971 at Path\u00e9 Marconi Studio, for professional sound illustration intended for cinema and television and advertising, these files compiled by french label Hot Casa Records are absolutely fantastic. The jazzman Manu Dibango experimenting with all genres somewhere between soul, jazz and afro funk. In 2019, these tunes have no ages, considered as \u2018huge\u2019 pieces for crate diggers. The album is an amazing return to future, celebrating the 86th anniversary of the artist.<\/p>\n

Stream and order it\u00a0here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Tropikal Camel<\/b><\/h5>\n

Awakening Spirit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, Jerusalem-native and Berlin-based Tropikal Camel has been sharing his entrancing sounds. Blending strong percussions with psychedelic sounds, his music is as much a tribute to his middle-eastern cultural heritage as it is avant-guarde.<\/p>\n

He explains the creative process of his new the following way: “In order to maintain this raw magic I recorded most of the album live in one take, the way I perform it live on stage. My vision was to create a ceremony in which one experience a release, from his own self, in order to get to their unknown dimension.”<\/p>\n

Stream and order it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zeal Onyia<\/b><\/h5>\n

Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Considered as one of the founders of West African highlife in both Ghana and Nigeria, Zeal Onyiba played Ellington-style swing and dance with Bobby Benson in the ’40s, classic highlife with ET Mensah in the ’50s and provided stiff competition for Fela Kuti\u2019s first band as a small-jazz combo leader in the early ’60s. Reissued for the first time by BBE Music as part of its ongoing Tabansi Gold reissue serie, Trumpet King Zeal Onyia Returns<\/em> remains one of the most in-demand old-school Igbo-highlife sessions of all time, both in Nigeria and elsewhere, the original vinyl being devilishly hard to find in any condition, let alone playable!<\/p>\n

Stream and order it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Next:\u00a0The 30 best albums of the last three months<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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