Month: July 2017
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Interview: Yale Evelev of Luaka Bop
World Treasures Music spoke to Luaka Bop president Yale Evelev, the label’s latest release compiles the work of Alice Coltrane – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. The record features music Coltrane made while she lived at the Sai Anantam Ashram (a spiritual monastery in California), which she established in…
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Sorry Bamba’s ‘Du Mali’ LP is reissued by Africa Seven
The second LP of one of the most pivotal figures in the history of Malian music – Sorry Bamba – is being reissued this month by Africa Seven. His work spans five decades and Mali’s cultural traditions and new musical styles that arose during Mali’s post-Colonial period. Bamba was born in 1938 in Mopti, dissected…
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Discos Horóscopo is a new label celebrating the chicha music movement of Peru
Check out this new label looking to reissue ten of the genre’s most cherished albums. To find out more about Discos Horóscopo’s plans to re-release 10 of the most iconic albums of chicha history and to help fund the project please go to their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
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World Treasures Music on KMAH Radio: Matsuli Music feature
Music from Jacob Mafuleni and Gary Gritness, plus more, as well as a feature on South African jazz specialists Matsuli Music in the second half. Tracklist below and a link to listen too if you missed it live. World Treasures Music is on KMAH Radio every fortnightly Thursday, 2pm until 4pm (GMT). Jacob Mafuleni & Gary Gritness…
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Crown Ruler news: Jeremy Spellacey interview and Spacetalk compilation preview
World Treasures Music spoke to Jeremy Spellacey of Melbourne’s Crown Ruler (record label, shop and party collective) about the forthcoming release Crown Ruler Sound for Spacetalk. He has selected some beautiful music from around the world for this much eagerly anticipated compilation. Jeremy’s digging has helped him gain global popularity, serving the rare vinyl wants…
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Africa Seven label feature
Check out the latest World Treasures Music show on Kmah Radio. Featuring exclusive new material from the forthcoming Dimensions label, Esa’s bass rumbler on Dekmental, Balearic’s Social’s latest from Mori Ra, a jazz dancer from the newly reissued Rubén González LP, dopeness from Heavenly Sweetness’ latest Beach Diggin’ compilation and a full hour of reissues…
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Pacific Express ‘Black Fire’ LP is one of the standout jazz releases of this year
Matsuli Music has added the debut album of this Cape Town ‘supergroup’ to their growing catalogue of South African Afro-jazz reissues. New liner notes from acclaimed jazz historian Gwen Ansel explains how this album successfully fused multiple styles in 1976 forging a new sound from what was ‘Cape Town Jazz’, Latin, R&B, soul, pop and…
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