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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Lucibela |
Diferenca
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Moda Antiga | Lusafrica | * | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Jupiter & Okwess |
Nkoyi Niama
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Ekoya | Airfono | Veteran stars of the Kinshasa street music scene Jupiter & Okwess return with their fourth album, Ekoya, representing an exciting new chapter for the band, blending their signature sound of soulful Congolese funk, rock and soukous with new influences from Mexico and across Latin America featuring cross-cultural encounters and inspired by the shared history of African people in two continents. - PR | * | 0:05:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kin Gongolo Kiniata |
Lisekite
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Kiniata | Hélico | Kin’Gongolo Kiniata are a vital new voice of Congolese music, upending lyrical traditions and offering a potent and thrilling new take on Kinshasa-born rumba, with handcrafted percussion from found street objects providing the band’s rhythmical power Their debut album Kiniata is a call for peace, social justice and dignity for the Congolese people. - PR | * | 0:08:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Verckys et l´Orchestre Vévé |
Ya Nini
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Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 | Analog Africa | Georges Kiamuangana Mateta, known professionally as Verckys, was a Congolese saxophonist, composer, producer, bandleader, and record executive. A significant figure in the evolution of 20th-century Congolese and African popular music, he is referred to as "Vévé", "the man with the iron lungs" and "Wazola Nzimbu". - wiki | 0:14:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Amadou Balake |
Taximan
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Various Artists: Golden Afrique Volume 1 | Network | Amadou Traoré, better known as Amadou Balaké, was a popular singer from Burkina Faso. During his career, which lasted over 50 years, Balaké recorded and performed in different parts of West Africa as well as New York and Paris. In the early 21st century, he was a member of Senegalese salsa band Africando. - wiki | 0:24:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Witch |
Ntendelakumbi
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Witch (Including Janet) | Now-Again | New reissue | * | 0:36:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kasiva Mutua |
Ndikweteela
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Desturi | Delicious Tunes | Desturi is a transformative 11 track album that showcases Kasiva Mutua's musical evolution, expanding her artistry from percussion to include guitar, songwriting, and production. Inspired by diverse African musical traditions and instrumentation, she explores the call and response nature of East African music, layered West African drumming, clap laden music of the North, traditionally inspired finger picking guitar melodies and more. | * | 0:40:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Fatoumata Diawara |
Nterini - A Colors Show
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Single | 0:45:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Boubacar Traoré Trio |
Tiekoruba djuga
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Live! | Boubacar Traoré has been captivating audiences with his music, dance, and singing on stages around the world for more than 60 years. Yet, despite his long career, this is the first time his live performances have ever been captured for a production. - PR | * | 0:50:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Mandeng Groove |
Manssani Cisse (ft. Fatou Kalissa & Ba Cissoko)
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Conakry | Rumpus Room | 'Conakry' was recorded on Mandeng Groove's first trip to Guinea in West Africa. The Melbourne-based ensemble collaborated with many different local musicians and recorded at bandleader Amaodou Kalissa's family home. Over the course of their month-long stay there were power outages every day, meaning that the band had to record in the dark without electricity. The work-around for this was to record the majority of the album through Kyle's portable recorder (a Zoom H6, which could be powered with AA batteries) a laptop and some cheap microphones. - PR | * | 0:56:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kankou Kouyate |
Na fa te Djougouyala
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N'Darila | Kankou Kouyate, Malis contemporary Griot voice, niece of Bassekou Kouyate, was 'discovered' by Brian Eno and Damon Alban and worked with Toumani Diabate, Bassekou Kouyate, Cheick Tidianne Seck, Salif Keita, Habib Koite, Vieux Farka Touré and many more. Kankou is now bringing her family band Les Etoiles de Garana, presenting the new generation of traditionalists. This new band, was created in order to support her extraordinary voice with the acoustic traditional instruments she grew up with. The album was produced in Bamako in 2024 by Carolina Vallejo. - PR | * | 1:04:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Ana Carla Maza |
Caribe
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Caribe Deluxe | ACM Global Music | A groundbreaking cellist, singer, and composer, she redefines Latin music with a thrilling mix of jazz, pop, rock, and urban influences. Raised in Havana, trained in Paris, she brings an electrifying fusion of classical mastery and Cuban soul to the stage. - YouTube | * | 1:10:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Eddie Palmieri |
Bomba del Corazon
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A Man and His Music - El Virtuoso | Fania | 1:14:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Rita Donte |
Baila Mi Guaguanco
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Ritual | Ansonia | Ritual, the new album by Cuban-born, Mexico-based Rita Donte, is a tapestry of classic Cuban son and rumba with Mexican instrumentation from son jarocho and contemporary songwriting, developed and produced by multi-instrumentalist Gustavo Guerrero (aka Augusto Bracho). - PR | * | 1:17:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Uli Costa e Sandália de Prata |
Amuletos
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Uli Costa e Sandália de Prata | The São Paulo-based band Sandália de Prata, led by singer and songwriter Uli Costa, has just released their fifth album – Uli Costa e Sandália de Prata – following their well-received previous works. Over the past 22 years, Sandália de Prata has become a staple of São Paulo’s black dance music scene. In 2018, they represented Brazilian music at the FIFA World Cup in Russia alongside renowned artists like Emicida and Hermeto Pascoal. PR | * | 1:22:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Grand Kalle & L'African Jazz |
Succes African Jazz
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Merveilles du Passé Volume 1 - 1958-1959-1960 | Les Disques Caractère / Sonodisc | Joseph Athanase Tshamala Kabasele, popularly known as Le Grand Kallé, was a Congolese singer and bandleader, considered the father of modern Congolese music. He is best known for his role as leader of the band, Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, in which capacity he was involved in a number of noted songs, including Indépendance Cha Cha. - wiki | 1:26:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Wanderer Songs |
Venham Mais Cinco
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Ao Vivo no Teatro Faialense | Mais 5 | Wanderer Songs is an international artist collective that assembled in the Azores, in April of 2024 to prepare a special show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution as well as celebrating the first complete release of the late great José Afonso's live concert at the Lisbon Coliseu in 1983. Featuring artists and musicians from Portugal, Angola/Belgium, the Asturias, Valencia and Mozambique, this unique concert celebrates the life and times of one of the greatest Portuguese artists of the 20th century, José ‘Zeca’ Afonso (1929–1987). | * | 1:30:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Prince Nico Mbarga |
Let Them Say
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Let Them Say | Polydor | Nico Mbarga, known as Prince Nico Mbarga, was a renowned Cameroonian-Nigerian highlife musician. Mbarga played multiple instruments such as xylophone, conga, and drums. He began his musical journey in school bands and debuted professionally with the Melody Orchestra in 1970. He gained fame for his hit song "Sweet Mother" with his band Rocafil Jazz, which became the best-selling song in African recording history. Despite recording only one major hit, "Sweet Mother", selling over 13 million copies, Mbarga played a vital role in the evolution of African popular music. - africanmusiclibrary | 1:41:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Damily & Toliara Tsapiky Band |
Sabotsy maraindray
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Fihisa | Damily is a veteran guitarist, composer, and bandleader of tsapiky [tsa-PEEK] music. In 2001, he fell in love with and married a woman from France, and the moved there soon afterwards. Damily’s band, organized by his brother Rakapo, has remained in Tulear. In recent years, he has brought them to Europe for tours. - Afropop Worldwide | * | 1:52:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Aurelio Martinez |
Sananaru
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Darandi | Stonetree | Great Garifuna artist who passed away on the 17th. | 2:02:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Aurelio Martinez |
Chichanbara
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Landini | Stonetree | 2:06:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Vaudou Game |
Donne un peu
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Fintou | Hot Casa | Vaudou Game is one of the most exciting bands on the scene. Peter Solo, singer and composer of the band was born in Aného-Glidji (Togo), birthplace of the Guin tribe and place of voodoo culture, just like the whole region of Togo and Benin. Vaudou Game combines voodoo rhythms, raw afrofunk and soul, and the music of the band recalls the sound of legendary bands like Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou and El Rego from Benin. The idea of integrating the haunting voodoo lines, sung in honour of the Divinities, into energetic 70s afrofunk, is, in Peter Solo’s mind, an obvious extension of the analogy he found between this voodoo tradition and trance inducers such as the soul, funk, and rhythm ‘n blues of James Brown and Otis Redding. - ebbmusic | * | 2:11:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kazdoura |
Hmool El Safar
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Ghoyoum | Born from resilience, cultural connection and shared passion for Arabic psychedelic music, Kazdoura was launched by Syrian singer Leen Hamo (who came to Canada as a refugee) and Lebanese jazz musician John Abou Chacra. Their paths crossed at a Toronto fundraiser following the 2020 Beirut explosion—a moment that sparked a powerful musical synergy. "Ghoyoum" means “clouds” and refers to different moods and conditions in the album: nostalgia, memories, goodbyes, stories from home, love, loss, challenge, frustration and mental barriers. - PR | * | 2:14:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Ukandanz |
Yene Felagote
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Evil Plan | Compagnie 4000 | Pioneers of the sound of ‘Ethiopian crunch’ – at once soul and heavy metal, jazz and punk, and indisputably Ethiopian – this Addis Ababa and Lyon-based quartet play complex rhythms, with screaming saxophone and distorted bass, uniting under the honeyed voice of Ethiopian singer Asnaké Gebreyes. | * | 2:18:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The Ex, Getatchew Merkuriya and friends |
Aha Begena
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Moa Anbessa | 2:23:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Imal Gnawa |
Boyandi
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Twilight Prophecy | Imal Gnawa combines traditional Morrocan Gnawa music with futuristic textures and drum machines. - bandcamp | * | 2:34:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Shagan |
Himalaya
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Free Spirit | «FREE SPIRIT», the new album by the Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound producer and performer Vladislav SHAGAN, stems from a desire to delve into the history and culture of the Bulgarians, i.e. of the Danubians living today in the West and of the proto-Bulgarians whose tribes lived in the East, in the area at the border among Mongolia, China and India, in the region of Pamir, Hindi Kush, and the Himalayas. - PR | * | 2:41:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Hadiqa Kiani |
Saanso Ki Maala
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Hayat | Sufiscore | enowned Pakistani artist Hadiqa Kiani is set to unveil her latest musical venture, ‘Hayat’ (‘Life’). Hadiqa Kiani’s extraordinary Qawwali project released on January 24, 2025, through the Sufiscore record label. Through this homage to the soulful genre of Qawwali, Kiani brings her unique artistry to classic pieces, celebrating the rich heritage and legends who shaped its legacy. - PR | * | 2:45:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Farid Ayaz Qawwal & Brothers |
Allah Hoo
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Qawwali Music Of Pakistan Vol. 1 - Live in New York City | Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal and Brothers are masters of Qawwali Sufi music as well as classical genres such as tarana, thumri, and khayal. They belong to the Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, a music school founded in the 14th century that remains the best-known gharana today. Weaving together devotional and secular traditions, Ayaz and company have been bringing South Asian music to international audiences for over 30 years. - Asia Society | 2:53:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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this is amazing! gotta dig deeper . . .
good evening, Rob! Paradisians!
been listening, but only getting to sign in now :(
(been having a really crappy day -- this music is just what the proverbial doctor ordered -- thank you! 😺😺)
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(has he played in NYC? wracking my senile old brain, trying to remember if i have seen him -- Central Park? World Music Institute?)
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omg right?!? the whole album is freaking amazing!!!
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