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J.K. Mayengani and the Shingwedzi Sisters |
Khubani
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Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto Volume 2 | Strut | Vibrant 22-track set of soulful mbaqanga 'n' hidden psych-funk outta South Africa, from 1969 to 1976! - amazon | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Gypsy Caravan |
Soweto Mujibha
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Various Artists: Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound of Harare' Townships 1975-1980 | Analog Africa | The 25 songs presented in this project showcase the birth of the modern music industry in Zimbabwe and the explosion of creativity bands of the 1970s and 80s delivered is endlessly rewarding. - PR | * | 0:03:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Gasper Nali |
Chaka Chino Ndikwatila
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Chule Chule Iwe | Spare Dog Records | Gasper Nali is a not-so-traditional babatoni player from Malawi. This babatoni is an African one-string home-made 3-metre long bass guitar, and with a stick and an empty beer bottle, together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing and danceable original Afro Beats possible! - PR | * | 0:06:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Madalisto Band |
Chemwa
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Ma Gitala | Les Disques Bongo Joe | A celebration of journey, triumph, and faith, Madalitso Band make life affirming, joyous music brought to life on the streets of Lilongwe in Malawi and now reunited with their Swiss label Bongo Joe Records. - PR | * | 0:10:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Kawere Boys Band |
Lawrence Swa
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P.O Kanindo | The Kawere Boys was a 1970s Kenyan band comprising Benga musicians led by Cheplin Ngode Kotula, Juma Charlie, and Otieno Ogor. For the band's four years reign in the music industry, its reputation in Luo country soared because of the members' distinctive sound and appearance. - african music library | 0:15:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Damily |
Mangebakebake
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Early Years - Madagascar Cassette Archives | Les Disques Bongo Joe | This album returns to the roots of the legendary guitarist and shows his early works cassettes recorded in Madagascar between 1995 and 2002. Entirely devoted to Tsapiky music, his career, which began in 1986, is deeply rooted in the South West part of Madagascar, his native city of Tuléar and the bush around it. - PR | 0:25:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mamehy |
Je mitsiko ro mokotse ("Those who talk dirty behind your back tire themselves out for nothing")
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Various Artists: Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar | Sublime Frequencies | Tsapiky music from Southwest Madagascar features wild ecstatic vocals, distorted electric guitars, rocket bass, and the amphetamine beat! Unlike anything else, this is THE high life music you've always wanted - ceremonial music played with abandon and extreme intent, honoring the living and dead alike. - bandcamp | * | 0:33:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
D'Gary & Jihé |
Mihasy Lonaky
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Horombe | D'Gary is one of the most astonishing guitarists in the world. He hails from Madagascar, and although his music is richly informed by the Indian Ocean island's traditional music, he has developed a unique style on his open-tuned acoustic guitar: melodically and harmonically intricate, rhythmically frenetic. On his first two albums he played his guitar and sang accompanied by a lone drummer, but for HOROMBE he formed Jihé, a group of singers and percussionists that marvelously succeeds in keeping up with him. - amazon | 0:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Aleksand Saya x Sarera |
Soma
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Fikira | Kayamba Records | ‘Fikira’ is a cultural experiment that fuses the musical heritage of two French islands in the Indian Ocean: Mayotte (where the group Sarera hails from) and Réunion (where the group Aleksand Saya hails from). - PR | * | 0:44:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Witch |
Tiponde Madzi
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Sogolo | Partisan | Following their remarkable global resurgence and critical acclaim around 2023’s reunion album Zango–their first in nearly 40 years–Zamrock pioneers WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) return with an even bolder creative statement with their follow-up, SOGOLO. Its name is derived from the Zambian word for “future”. - PR | * | 0:52:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Kizaba |
Kitoko
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Future Village | Future Village | Lionel KIZABA, singer-songwriter, 2024-2025 Radio-Canada Revelations, multi-instrumentalist, and pioneer of Afro-Congolese electro music based in Montreal, has paved a unique musical path that takes his vast international audience on a journey through his Afrofuturistic universe. - home page | * | 0:55:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Nasibo Mutize |
Stop Over
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Stop Over | Zigwiton | Stop Over is a musical collaboration between Nasibo, a Zimbabwean singer and mbira player based in Harare, and Raphael Joly, a French guitarist who has lived in Addis Ababa for 18 years. - PR | * | 0:59:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Mandé Sila Featuring Habib Koite, Aly Keïta & Lamine Cissokho |
Fimani
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Live @ Levon Helm | Contre-Jour | Three standard-bearers of West African musical traditions come together to celebrate Mandé Sila: the way of the Mandingo empire, symbolizing languages, cultures, music, and the entire organology of West Africa. - PR | * | 1:03:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Kanazoé Orkestra |
Dabara
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Balabeatz | Kanazoé Orkestra are back with their highly anticipated fourth album "Balabeatz," a captivating blend of Afro-grooves deeply rooted in the West African, Burkinabé and Mandinka heritage. Hailing from a long lineage of griots, Seydou Diabaté , aka Kanazoé, inherited his profound connection to the balafon from his father at an early age. - PR | * | 1:10:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Neba Solo |
Vantigue
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Tuma Duma | Neba Solo is the stage name of Souleymane Traoré, a musician based in Mali, West Africa. Neba Solo plays a kind of balafon, a marimba with wooden keys mounted on a wooden frame and attached to resonating chambers made from dried gourds. Traoré hails from the village of Nebadougou, in the eastern part of the Sikasso region of Mali. His stage name derives from his home town, plus the shortened form of his first name. - wiki | * | 1:15:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Kouyate Lansine |
Diali Kunda
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Various Artists: Tales of the Marimba | The youngest son of the renowned Malian bard Siramori Diabaté, Lansiné was born into the tradition of the Kela griots (bards or diplomats of West Africa). This group of griots is particularly renowned for their narratives of the epic of Sundiata. His mother remains for many Malians one of the greatest jelimusow (female bards), who paved the way for modern Malian female singers. - home page | 1:20:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Faraon Bantu y Champetaman |
Marimba de guapi hasta el Congo - Grupo Gualajo remix by Cubain Kabeya
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Kalakuta Champetuo | Palenque | Another musical Manifesto from El Faraon Bantu and DJ ChampetaMan, producer of the label Palenque Records, with new musical journeys and ultra sensorial experiences. This new Ep features tracks with the great Tony Allen, the architect of Afrobeat in the time of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, as well as more classics and mystical revelations of the new gospel of El Faraon Bantu. - PR | * | 1:26:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Nidia Góngora |
Mi Marimba
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Pacífico Maravilla | From the banks of the Timbiquí River to global stages, Nidia Góngora's voice carries the cadence of the mangrove and the strength of the drum. With Pacífico Maravilla, her first solo album, she presents a sonic manifesto that immerses us in the essence of her homeland and artistic evolution. For over 25 years, Nidia has blended tradition with innovation, collaborating with artists like Quantic, Bomba Estéreo, and Ondatrópica. - PR | * | 1:30:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
De Mar y Rio |
Bailen y Gocen
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Bailen y Gocen | Palenque | Afrocolombian music at its best with De Mar y Rio Bailen y Gocen, is the first musical child of the pacific youth group of the moment De Mar y Rio, is an album of traditional marimba music. Its members come from different territories such as Timbiqui, Cali, Guapi, Iscuande, El Charco, Lopez de Micay and Buenaventura, who coincided years ago in Cali in search of better horizons of life and decided to form a powerful musical group under the direction of maestro Felipe Amú, which today is consolidated in their first album, in which they unite the knowledge learned in each of the schools and traditional musical currents from where they come from. - PR | 1:34:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
La Banda de Alexis |
Caderona
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Various Artists: Guasá, Cununo y Marimba - Afro-Colombian Music From The Pacific Coast | Vampi Soul | The music of the Colombian Pacific is one of the greatest treasures of Colombia and its African past, but not many people remember the songs recorded on anthologies, which are largely a forgotten chapter of Colombia´s musical history. It comprises genres such as currulao and chirimía and many others that are yet to be discovered by most Latin music lovers. - bandcamp | 1:37:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Los Nemus Del Pacifico |
Mi Gran Amor
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Montuniando Con Los Nemus | Los Nemus del Pacífico are a Colombian salsa music band. They are especially known for son montuno music, as highlighted in their video Los Nemus Del Pacifico: Greatest Hits of Salsa & Son Montuno on Discos Fuentes. - wiki | 1:46:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Larry Harlow |
Guasasa
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Electric Harlow | Fania | Harlow was a noted salsa bandleader and multi-instrumentalist, although he primarily played piano. He produced over 260 albums for Fania Records as well as his manager and musician friend Chino Rodriguez two albums for Salsa Records and including his brother Andy's four albums on the Fania stable mate Vaya Records between 1972 and 1976: Sorpresa La Flauta, La Música Brava, El Campesino and Latin Fever. The first garnered a gold disc and spawned "La Lotería", the company's biggest selling 45 rpm release to date. - wiki | 1:51:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Contrabandeando |
El Maleficio de Micaela
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El Maleficio de Micaela | Contrabandeando managed to capture something complex on stage: the blend of visual arts and music, which merges perfectly in this EP, as it is also a picture book that tells a story about the ills of humanity and empathy. Zaida Escobar's live painting, the visuals playing with the book's illustrations, and the voiceover of "Babalú" managed to draw the audience into the mystique of the story with impeccable aesthetics. - PR (translated) | * | 1:56:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
The Bongo Hop |
Mi Olla
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La Pata Coja | Underdog Records | After eight years in Colombia working as a DJ, promoter and music journalist, trumpeter Etienne Sevet returned home to Lyon, France to form the Afro Caribbean band The Bongo Hop. - francerocks | * | 2:01:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Femi Kuti |
After 24 Years
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Journey Through Life | Partisan | * | 2:06:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Luigi Cinque |
Poetry Masaba
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Kromosoma Maris | Kromosoma Maris is the new album by Luigi Cinque, a "film-like" sonic journey that transcends time and space. The work, conceived as a diary, blends current recordings with unreleased material and memories from past tours. - PR | * | 2:14:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Grecia Albán |
Con Mi Tambor
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Nubes Selva | Folkalist | For Ecuadorian singer and songwriter Grecia Albán, honoring tradition means nurturing it by embracing change. In NUBES SELVA (which translates loosely to "Cloud Jungle"), her debut release on Folkalist Records, Albán sings over a canvas of reimagined folkloric rhythms. - bandcamp | * | 2:20:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Qais Essar & Sonny Singh: Sangat |
Pavan Guru
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Single | GIG: Joe's Pub Wed at 9:30: Afghan American rabab virtuoso Qais Essar has joined forces with Sikh American trumpet player and singer Sonny Singh in a new project that obliterates musical, political, and religious boundaries. - home page | 2:23:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Ammar El Sherei |
Balad El Mahbob
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Music From The East | WeWantSounds | Ammar El Sherei was a famous musician, composer and music critic of El Sherei family in Minya, Upper Egypt. He has had an impact on Egyptian instrumental and vocal music, in addition to his scoring of many films and television series, even though he was blind. - elcinema | * | 2:31:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Abu Saber |
Ya Allah Ank Zinat يا الله انك زينة (Oh, God, You Are Beautiful)
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Various Artists: Born in the City of Tanta - Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi from Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75 | Sublime Frequencies | Far from the bustling cosmopolitan center of Cairo, north and northwest, in towns like Tanta and Alexandria and extending across the Saharan Desert to the Libyan border, dozens of fully marginalized artists were developing a raw, hybrid shaabi/al-musiqa al-shabiya style of music, supported by smaller upstart, independent labels, including the short-lived but deeply resonant Bourini Records. - bandcamp | * | 2:35:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Al Andaluz Project |
Mina Nawa (Maalouf Tunecino)
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The Songs of Iman Kandoussi - Traditional Arabic Andalusian | With the aim of reviving the music of the Jewish-Sephardic, Christian and Arabo-Andalusian cultures, as they were in Moorish-ruled Spain in peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence, the band recorded four studio and one live album between 2006 and 2013 and played numerous concerts and festivals throughout Europe. - PR | 2:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Bedouin Burger |
Dabkeh
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Ma Li Beit | For Bedouin Burger, Zeid Hamdan invents new rhythms, crunchy and crackling, tending towards trance, above which Lynn Adib's diaphanous voice hovers. Their playing field is endless, and everything is only just beginning. - PR | 2:42:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars |
Satisfaction (Sabienu)
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Chronika | Borscht Beat | GIG: Monday night as part of big New York Sings Yiddish concert at Central Park Summerstage. | 2:46:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Benedicte Maurseth |
Sommarbeite
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Mirra | Hubro | On the album Mirra, the innovative folk musician Benedicte Maurseth once again invites us to the vast Hardangervidda plateau—this time with a focus on the wild reindeer. - PR | * | 2:56:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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slugluv1313:
so glad i got home in time for your show!
(been listening, but the Starving Feline Brigade *needed* their dinner first and foremost! 😸😸)
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:
slugluv1313:
agreed, what Rob said @6:57!
for about four years in the 1980s, i worked about a block from The Japan Society in NYC -- but i never visited! 🤯🤯 (weird, bc at the time, i was researching the Shamisen -- looking into purchasing one, learning how to play, etc.)
(could have been bc i was working nights at the time -- and realized how depressing that could be, at least for me: going to something, enjoying, and then -- ick! i gotta go to work 😩)
going to check The Japan Society's website, see what they have going on 😺😺
Handy Haversack:
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slugluv1313:
thank you, fred! 😺😺
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Carmichael:
Home from the gym. Fort Point IPA, ice cold …
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slugluv1313:
amazing compilation -- there was an event/exhibition at Record Grouch (Greenpoint?) earlier in June -- gotta see if the exhibit is still there!
slugluv1313:
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chresti:
slugluv1313:
OOPS.! maybe some time travel is in order? 😺😺
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