WORLD TREASURES MUSIC

March 23, 2015

Buena Vista Social Club tour and new material

Buena Vista Social Club are saying adios. The Cuban band are releasing previously unavailable material from a range of live performances coinciding with an international farewell tour that arrives in the UK on April 4th. The last two survivors of the golden Buena Vista line-up are Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa and this accompanying CD…

March 4, 2015

Interview: The Supreme Jubilees

World Treasures Music spoke to Leonard Saunders of gospel group, The Supreme Jubilees, about the welcome reissue of It’ll All Be Over (1980) by Light In The Attic Records. Click here to read.

March 3, 2015

Mbongwana Star shine with Congolese house and electro for World Circuit

Mbongwana Star have streamed their first track Malukayi with the Boiler Room. It comes from their forthcoming album on World Circuit. A search for other content reveals a slick music video with some supreme dancing. Not much is known about Mbongwana Star so far, other than that they are a newly formed band from Kinshasa,…

February 24, 2015

L.A folk duo Caboor and Kaufman brought to the light on ‘Songs From Suicide Bridge’

Light In The Attic are releasing a haunting folk compilation – Songs From Suicide Bridge – featuring the compositions of Eric Caboor and David Kaufman. The duo released Greetings From Suicide Bridge in 1984 and today it will deservedly find a new audience. It provides an insight into the sleazy, dysfunctional life of the Hollywood scene,…

February 17, 2015

South African jazz reissue – another piece of the jigsaw

Ndikho Xaba And The Natives was an LP that was recorded in the United States, but expresses much about South Africa. Great music from the country continues to emerge for new listeners and fans. Spiritual jazz, jive, kwaito, as well as Shangaan and township dance music express a distinct identity in music and culture. The reissue of…

February 17, 2015

Hot Casa do it again: synth-highlife bomb fronted by child

From 1977 and featuring top musicians like bassist Victor Edimo and guitarist Toto Guillaume, here is seven-year-old Cameroonian, Francis Mbarga, chatting and singing over some deep, hypnotic grooves. All hail Francis The Great and his LP Ravissante Baby. Go straight to Side B (Look Up In The Sky) for the highlight of the year so…

February 4, 2015

Letta Mbulu reissue of rare groove classic

Heads up, Be With Records are to reissue the Sweet Juju LP from 1985 with the blinding Nomalizo. The LP by Soweto-born Letta Mbulu has fetched high prices on Discogs before and is another welcome addition to the influx of South African music recently compiled and released. Strut are also to release a fourth addition…

February 3, 2015

African musicians reinterpret Terry Riley

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Terry Riley’s In C, a pioneering work in minimalist composition, Tate Modern, band Africa Express and The Space, London, have launched an interactive online film. The film follows the African musicians brought together by Africa Express (featuring members Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Nick Zinner) and led by classical…

January 29, 2015

Weird Together

Weird Together are a fresh and exciting new act on Soundway Records and were formed in New Zealand in 2012. The band are Karima Madut (vocals), Mavs Adegbite (percussion/vocals), Izak Chadderton (steel pan), Alesano Schuster (steel pan), The Gaza Tripp (guitar) and Yonier Cuevas Vega (MC). They fuse musical influences from Africa, South America and…

January 29, 2015

The Holy Mountain soundtrack reissued

The Holy Mountain is a seminal surrealist film and is accompanied by one of the most ethereal pieces recorded by Don Cherry in his career. Once again it can be enjoyed through a superb new reissue. Cherry is one of the spiritual jazz geniuses of our world and his contribution to this soundtrack is one…