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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Akendengue |
Ta'Nzambe
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Goree | Lusafrica | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Staff Benda Billili |
Tonkara
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Tres Tres Fort | Crammed Discs | 0:05:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Andre Marie Tala |
Ye Nomtema
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Bend Skin Beats | RetroAfric | 0:11:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| The Great Pilsners |
Aman Nyinaa Hen
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Band of the Year 1978-79 | Gapophone | 0:21:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Amakye Dede |
Daben Na Odo Beba
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Amakye Dede and his Apollo Kings International | Coconut | 0:26:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Peter Somuah |
Mental Slavery
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Highlife | ACT | Highlife takes listeners on a vibrant journey through the rich musical heritage of Peter Somuah’s Ghanaian roots and the innovative world of jazz. Drawing from his early years playing highlife music in Accra, and blending it with influences from legends like Miles Davis, Somuah creates a unique sound that bridges generations. | * | 0:32:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kananayé |
Teri Djougou
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Kananayé | Tzig'Art | In the streets of Burkina Faso, the phrase "ka nana yé" can be heard everywhere. It means "it's not easy", but also implies that things will be okay. With the album "Kananayé," which takes its name from this popular saying, things can only get better. Its foundational multiculturalism, conscious lyrics, intertwined traditions, and contemporary grounding are essential qualities in these times when optimism has become a survival virtue. - PR | * | 0:36:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Inna Baba Coulibaly |
Yewtanakam
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Gilli Kwral (Love & Peace) | Remote Records / Studio Mali | This stunning album highlights Mali's rich cultural tapestry and the unique musical traditions woven through life's significant moments. Celebrate love, peace, family, spirituality, and national pride with us through Inna Baba Coulibaly's enchanting and genuine voice. - PR | 0:47:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Loya |
Be Sadia
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Blakaz Antandroy | LZ Records | Blakaz Antandroy is an innovative album by Loya in collaboration with the Remanindry family—father Remanindry and his children Samba, Nindry, Isabelle, and Adeline. From the Antandroy people, a shamanic community in southern Madagascar, they use traditional songs and instruments to invoke spirits called "Kukulamp," offering healing in areas far from modern medicine. | * | 0:51:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Tsapiky 2000 |
Tsapiky 2000
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Various Artists: Tulear Never Sleeps | Earthworks | 0:58:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| PulciPerla |
Espuma
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Tatekieto | Prado Records / Cie Pucinella | Take an iconoclastic and energetic quartet from Toulouse, combine it with a female power trio from Bogotá, shake it up, and you will get Pulciperla! After an explosive encounter in Colombia in 2019, the fiery trio La Perla and the unclassifiable Pulcinella decided to create an original repertoire: a hybrid, swaying, and sensual music where vocals, saxophone, keyboards, double bass, and percussion blend generously, driving a powerful trance-like pulse. - PR | * | 1:06:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Gary Gwadera |
II. Battle („kasowanie”)
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Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite | Pointless Geometry | On November 21, 2024 was released my new solo album "Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite", that combines the triple rhythms of the oberek (oberek is a traditional Polish dance) with the triple pulsation of footwork music. "The Footberk Suite “Far, far in Chicago”, is intended as an imagined musical journey through time and space, where the Polish oberek and Chicago footwork find a common ground in dynamic, triple rhythms. - PR | * | 1:12:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Elektro Hafiz |
San Anemos feat. Eleni Vratti
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Style is Prison | Elektro Hafız’s fourth album, Style is Prison, featuring 10 tracks and numerous collaborations, was released on November 15. The concept of Style is Prison brings together a variety of genres and features artists from many cultures. Elektro Hafız, a multidisciplinary artist, has crafted this album as a statement against categorization. - bandcamp | * | 1:18:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Soolmaan |
Ikaros
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Kashgul - Book I Ascending | Zephyrus Records | Bringing sound tableaus that float freely between the Bosphorus and India, Soolmaan weaves flute, sax, ney, cello, piano, and tamburello into an imaginary folklore infected by jazz. Their new album, Kashgul, created during Driessens’ residency at the Concertgebouw of Bruges, interweaves original compositions with reimagined classics from Ravi Shankar and Amjad Ali Khan. | * | 1:23:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Zelenaya |
Letila Zozulia / Flying Cuckoo
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Folk Songs | NYC's Zelenaya merges the haunting vocal harmonies of Eastern European polyphonic folk singing with the intensity of sludge, doom, and death metal. The combination pays homage to the traditions, rituals, and stories transmitted in these songs, while reimagining their context and form. - bandcamp | 1:35:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| The Hu |
The Gereg
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The Gereg | 1:40:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Khusugtun |
Arvan Khoyor Jil
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Jangar | Buda Musique | A modern and polyphonic exploration of the traditional overtone singing from Mongolia. "Khusugtun" is synonymous with "nomads". The peculiarity of this sextet lies in the use of vocal polyphony, a recent exploration in the Mongolian throat singing tradition. The group accompanies itself with the horse-head fiddles morin khuur, their double-bass version ikh khuur, the lute tovshuur and dombra, guitar, cello and the zither yatga. - PR | 1:44:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Ligeti Quartet |
Eki Attar (The Best Steeds)
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Songbooks, Vol. 1 | The Ligeti Quartet has been at the forefront of modern and contemporary music since its formation in 2010, breaking new ground through innovative programming and championing of today’s most exciting composers and artists. - home page | 1:47:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Petros Klampanis |
Enteka - feat. Areti Ketime (vocals)
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Tora Collective | Enja | Bassist and composer Petros Klampanis looks to past and future as he transforms traditional Greek music with Tora Collective. Unique instrumentation bridges Greek folkloric and modern jazz worlds, with Klampanis (bass, artistic direction), Areti Ketime (vocals), Thomas Konstantinou (oud, laouto), Giorgos Kotsinis (clarinet), Kristjan Randalu (piano), Ziv Ravitz (drums, electronics, co-production) and more. Athens-born Klampanis grew up surrounded by the confluence of Mediterranean and Balkan folk cultures, so making music has always meant navigating cultural crossroads to him. With Tora Collective (“Tora”=“Now”) he puts traditional Greek music at the centre, even as he presents it from a bold new angle. | * | 1:50:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kultur Shock |
Tutti Frutti
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Acoustic at Seattle Town Hall | Old Age Recording Co. | Seattle’s very own musical powerhouse, Kultur Shock, renowned for their intoxicating fusion of Balkan music and punk metal, is poised to captivate their audience once again. Founded by vocalist Gino Yevdjevich alongside a fervent ensemble of immigrant Balkan musicians in 1996, the band has steadfastly forged a unique space within the global music scene. - PR | 1:58:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| shunTA! |
Siki Siki Baba / Ibrahim
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At The Kafana | Rakia Records | London’s high-octane soul-stirring band shunTA! released debut album “At the Kafana” on 6th December 2024 through Rakia Records. This explosion of intense Balkan sound is created by musicians connected to the music not through bloodline, but through the heart. shunTA! deliver extraordinary Romani and Eastern European folk tunes, anthems and singalongs. - PR | * | 2:02:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Esma |
Romano Horo
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Single | 2:07:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Olcay Bayir |
Edlê
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Tu Gulî | Arc Music | Olcay Bayir gives voice to the hardships of the valiant people of Anatolia, who, despite innumerable injustices, continue to preserve their language, culture and customs. Tu Gulî, a collection of Kurdish Alevi soul-infused songs, honours her multicultural andmultilinguistic background. While blending her own personal memoirs with London's modern cosmopolitan sounds, she also pays tribute to the strong, devoted women of her Anatolian geography, including her own grandmothers and her mother. - PR | 2:10:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Omar Souleyman |
Darb El Hawa
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Bahdeni Nami | 2:15:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Hussein Sabsaby |
Salma
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Hanin: Field Recordings in Syria 2008/9 | 2:25:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Abu Sultan |
Your Love Made My Head Hurt
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Various Artists: Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran | Sham Palace | 2:27:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Fabio Bergamini |
7 Portais
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7 Portais | Belic Music | 7 Portais offers an eclectic mix of eight original tracks that transcend borders, combining rhythms, melodies, and harmonies from across the globe. With contributions from 22 artists hailing from different corners of the world—10 of them percussionists—the album takes listeners on a musical journey inspired by nature’s sounds, the heartbeat of life, and the cycles that define human existence. - PR | * | 2:37:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Lenka Lichtenberg |
A nay kleyd
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Feel With Blood | Lenka Lichtenberg’s new album, Feel With Blood, featuring more songs based on her grandmother’s poetry written at Theresienstadt during the Holocaust: For Feel With Blood, I wanted to record Anna Hana’s poems in English so audiences (who didn’t speak Czech) would completely understand what my grandmother was going through. | * | 2:45:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Tárkány Trió |
Csapnak a ciganyok
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A cimbalomprímás | Fonó | I am grateful for the field researchers like Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, László Lajtha and many others, who recorded music in the last century, preserving and passing on old traditions to the younger generations. I studied the music archives to find the gems– pieces of cimbalom music– that define my own work. - Bálint Tárkány-Kovács / PR | 2:49:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Kengo Saito - Japanistan Trio |
Leili Libellule Fish In The Sky
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Douce Errance | Felmay | Original compositions or new arrangements of some traditionals, where Afghan rubab, Japanese shakuhachi and Persian tombak meet giving life to a music rich of poetic nuances and imagination, along a musical area that connects the Far East with the Silk Road territories and reaches Paris where the artists of the Japanistan Trio live. In this imaginary soundscape, there are no borders. - PR | * | 2:52:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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By coincidence, there is a soil scientist from Burkina Faso staying with my friends next door until Christmas. I might get a chance to try out "ka nana yé".
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