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High end selections for the latest Time Capsule releases – covering ‘Island Sounds From Japan’ and reviving Sérginho Meriti’s underground classic for the Black Rio movement
The Time Capsule label has more in store, with label boss Kay Suzuki, aiming for a release per month, with Sérginho Meriti dropping in June and a fantastic four-track compilation of modern dub, surf-rock, nu-disco and funky fusion of the highest order – all found on Island Sounds From Japan: 2009-2016 – out now. They…
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Meridian Brothers relase new video for new single, ‘Los Golpeadores de la Cumbia’ – ahead of August’s genre exploring album, ‘Cumbia Siglo XXI’ – for Bongo Joe
Los Golpeadores de la Cumbia is out today and is accompanied by a suitably bonkers video, the single is another taste of the forthcoming Meridian Brothers album for Bongo Joe – this is madcap cumbia for the millenium and is at the fore of tropical experimentalism. Between the late 70s and early 80s legendary Colombian…
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LABEL FEATURE: Ostinato Records – founder Vik Sohonie discusses latest Groupe RTD project and the challenges and rewards of running a label on a global mission
Gathering ‘lost’ music from around the world and reissuing the work of under-exposed artists, is a difficult task. Getting beyond the global communications, licensing and digital legwork or travel can be challenging enough, but what about the role of cultural excavation and regeneration post-war? Among a range of projects across numerous nations, Ostinato Records has…
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LISTEN: World Treasures Music mix – with Admas, Chouk Bwa, Etuk Ubong, Oumou Sangaré, Groupe RTD, Siti Muharam, Surprise Chef and more
Tracklist 24-Carat-Black – I Need A Change Sir Henry Ivy – He Left You Standing There Kansas Smitty’s – Dreamlane Etuk Ubong – Spiritual Change Martín Buscaglia – Los Barcos Asma Omar – Raga Kaan Ka’Eegtow (You Are the One I Love) Gary Bartz & Maisha – Harlem to Haarlem Anteloper – Bubble Under Carlos…
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Self-proclaimed “psychedelic bootyshakers” of Atlanta – Lightning Orchestra – release long-awaited debut album this month on UK label, Acid Jazz
Lightning Orchestra combine horn-led Afrobeat and funk-laden post-rock on their debut full-length album Source and Deliver via legendary British label, Acid Jazz. Here’s the Atlantan twelve-piece’s latest single White Tiger: Previous single For Those Who Are Yet To Be Born also gave us a taste of the band. The band are led by multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and…
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‘Sons of Ethiopia’ by Admas is a blissful Ethiopian synth treasure, a new wave for ex-pats in 1984 – reissued for the first time by Frederiksberg Records
This is the first ever reissue of Admas’ Sons of Ethiopia, a holy grail of epic proportions – it’s such a futuristic sounding album of fusion and roots, wonderfully channeled through the musicans who had left Ethiopia for America and recorded this privately pressed album in Washington DC in 1984. Admas were not musicians from…
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LABEL FEATURE: Cyril Yeterian – from the fantastically multi-faceted Les Disques Bongo Joe – discusses new releases, back catalogue and his expertise
Les Disques Bongo Joe has been relentless in their release of quality, roots themed music from all over the world. Their releases compile the ‘authentic’ and the ‘exotic’ from raw Caribbean tapes, as well as archive material from contemporary global pioneers of African indiginous music, alongside deep and ethereal improvisations inspired by European history.…
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