WORLD TREASURES MUSIC

June 10, 2020

Sounds and Colours release ten year anniversary comp and start fundraiser – help fund another ten years of celebrating Latin music and culture

Sounds and Colours has been at the fore of celebrating Latin music and culture as a label, website and printed publication since 2010. As part of the ten year celebrations, artists from across the Latin music world have contributed to a new Sounds and Colours compilation (check more out here). There are tracks from Orkesta…
June 10, 2020

‘The Sound Of San Francisco Christian Center’ is a hippie gospel classic praised and resurected by Cultures Of Soul

This amazing American gospel album reissue – The Sound Of San Francisco Christian Center – has finally dropped from Boston’s Cultures of Soul label. It’s a perfect example from 1978 of new forms of the genre that sprung from the Christian youth movement. Deano Sounds at the label explains: “The San Francisco Christian Center was…
June 5, 2020

Further acclaim for Etuk Ubong, ahead of June’s debut album ‘Africa Today’, latest single is evolutionary afrobeat for Night Dreamer

Etuk Ubong continues to garner international acclaim, ahead of his debut album release on June 19th for Night Dreamer. A range of key tastemakers have been supporting the singles released so far from Africa Today, including latest Ekpo MMommon – championed at the weekend by Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6 Music. Etuk Ubong’s previous…
June 1, 2020

New Yorker Nathan Bajar fuses genres and style, both musically and visually on latest reflective single – ‘Anniversary’ – for In Real Life label

Nathan Bajar’s music is tender, nostalgic and hazy – the video is excellent, displaying his multi-faceted and fusionist creativity, as he plays a range of characters (his female role is Windowlicker-esque!). Latest single Anniversary traverses R&B, soul, lo-fi and jazz effortlessly. This self-taught musician and producer has a distinct and unique sense of style that…
May 28, 2020

‘Kiwi Animals…’ is a superb collection of oddball pop and leftfield compositions from New Zealand, expertly currated on Strangelove Music

More Antipodean curveballs emerge on this fantastic compilation on the Strangelove Music label – Kiwi Animals: Future/ Primitive Aotearoa – further exposing the musical individualism of New Zealand’s new-wave. The label describes this expertly currated comp’ as: “Strangelove’s personal inventory of NZ 1980’s odd pop; Kiwi Animals… recasts the local charts in a parallel universe…
May 27, 2020

A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean combines birdsong, electronic music and conservation

A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean is a crowdfunded album of electronic music inspired by endangered birds – featuring ten artists from the featured countries, who have written and recorded songs using the song of birds from their homeland. All profits from the Shika Shika label’s vinyl and digital…
May 23, 2020

Multi-media innovator Kutiman to release new album from Tanzanian field trip – new single ‘Copasavana’ is opener from ‘Wachaga’ LP

Kutiman’s opening single Copasavana has dropped ahead of his fourth studio album – and it’s a masterful psychedelic soundscape of outernational wonder. Ophir ‘Kutiman’ Kutiel is a multi-instrumentalist and producer, as well as a filmmaker, who is now earning global fame from his home in the western Negev desert in Israel. Wachaga is the title of…
May 22, 2020

The Meridian Brothers return this summer with a new album – latest single ‘Puya Del Empresario’ showcases an intense 21st century cumbia

Fantastic news (!) – the return of the Meridian Brothers, with new LP Cumbia Siglo XXI dropping in August – with a heavier direction to be heard on the latest single, Puya Del Empresario. The Meridian Brothers’ sound has continually evolved from their 2006 debut and four outings on Soundway Records – the Deseperanza LP being a…
May 15, 2020

Nihiloxica’s debut LP is ‘Kaloli’ – intense drum workouts by Uganda’s Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, with UK duo Spooky J and pq

Hailing from Uganda and the UK, electro-percussion group Nihiloxica release their debut album on June 12th on Crammed Discs – it’s called Kaloli and first single Tewali Sukali sets out their stall perfectly. UK duo Spooky J and pq, with Uganda’s Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, form this intense production and live outfit. This is an unmissable journey through two…
May 14, 2020

Ostinato Records negotiate release of Groupe RTD’s music from Djibouti government – another landmark release

Ostinato Records have pulled off a major musical coup by recording and releasing the wonderful music of Groupe RTD: The Dancing Devils of Djibouti – some of Africa’s most globally underheard music – a result of state control in the Republic of Djibouti. The exhilarating three-day, khat fuelled session will be released worldwide next month.…