Tag: Bongo Joe Records

• Amami are a trio of diverse backgrounds and influences – their debut album is ‘Soleil’ for Bongo Joe Records and tours all corners of the globe

  Geneva’s AMAMI drop their debut LP Soleil – an outernational extravaganza of dancehall, ragga, Afropop and no wave – this August, on cult imprint Bongo Joe Records, also of Switzerland. The group specialise in fusing elements from around the world, including Moroccan gnawa, funaná from Cape Verde, and South African Shangaan electro. The album is out…

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  August 16, 2021

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  Afropop, Amami, Bongo Joe Records, dancehall, Eritrea, Ethiopiques, funana, Gabriel Ghebrezghi, Geneva, Ghostape, Gnawa, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Inès Mouzoune, Moroccan, no wave, ragga, Raphaël Anker, Shangaan electro, South Africa, South American, Switzerland, Tapes Adventure, Tigrinya

• ‘Club Coco’ is a new compilation of Afro Latin aces by selectora and Worldwide FM radio host Coco María – Pablo Borchi provides the rundown on all of the tracks compiled for Bongo Joe Records

  

  DJ and Worldwide FM radio host Coco María has selected 11 Afro-Latin jams, oddities and future classics on Club Coco for Swiss label Bongo Joe – featuring exclusive and scorching cuts from Nico Mauskovic, La Perla, Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero, Malphino and one of her own works, as she moves into creating. More on the…

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  June 6, 2021

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  Afro Latin, Alex Figueira, Analog Journal, Blackstreamlive, Bongo Joe Records, Brazil, Cal Jader, Celso Piña, Central America, charanga, Club Coco, Coco Maria, Colombia, Cumbia, Dekmantel, DJ, Frente Cumbiero, Funk, Gilles Peterson, Graham Mushnik, Jamaican mento, Jazz, La Perla, La Redada, Les Pythons de la Fournaise, Malphino, Max Weissenfeldt, Meridian Brothers, Meridian Brothers y Grupo Renacimiento, Monterrey coined Cumbias Rebajadas, Nico Mauskovic, Pablo Borchi, Peruvian chicha, Philophon, Questlove, reggae, Romperayo, samba, Soul, South America, the Caribbean, The Mauskovic Dance Band, Worldwide Festival, Worldwide FM radio host

• Don Melody Club takes a break from The Mauskovic Dance Band for a solo cosmic, no-wave album for the ever fresh Bongo Joe – the Amsterdam-based artist nods to a range of Dutch legends

  On his new album, Don Melody Club – member of the much loved, tropical futurists The Mauskovic Dance Band – takes the listener on a cosmic, no-wave inspired journey with synths, retro drum machines and a hint of 1970’s West-African swagger. With a prolonged break from his usual hectic-touring schedule, Amsterdam based Donald “Donny” Madjid,…

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  March 26, 2021

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  Bongo Joe Records, Doe Maar., Don Melody Club, Dutch, L’Eclair, new wave, Ramses Shaffy, Ronald Langestraat, The Mauskovic Dance Band, Yin Yin

• ‘Hybla La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticsm 1983-1990’ is set for March release on Bongo Joe Records – the label returns to compiling unheard gems from Spain

  Bongo Joe Records release Hybla by Finis Africae, ahead of a new double LP, La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticsm 1983-1990, featuring 20 tracks selected from a fertile period of electronic music production in mainland Spain. It’s out on March 5th. The label’s previous exploration in Spain, La Ola Contra, honed in on…

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  January 23, 2021

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  Bongo Joe Records, Camino Al Desvan, Eli Gras, female producers, Finis Africae, Grabaciones Accidentales, Horizonte Paseo, Hybla, Javier Seguro, La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticsm 1983-1990, Luis Delgado, Malagueñas 2, Miguel A. Ruiz, Music From Memory, Suzo Saiz, vinyl exclusives

• Cyril Cyril release their second album ‘Yallah Mickey Mouse’ for Bongo Joe Records, the Swiss duo combine their talents for a punky, globally influenced fusion of raw and politically-charged songs

  Cyril Cyril is made up of two Cyrils and their combining creates a raucous and complex mix of DIY sounds with globally conscious roots. Their second album Yallah Mickey Mouse is raw and rocking – mixing tough plucking and rhythmical patterns and percussion from Lebanon, The Levant and North Africa – with their signature sound…

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  September 24, 2020

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  Bongo Joe Records, Certaine Ruines, Cyril Bondi, Cyril Cyril, Cyril Yeterian, diatribes, INSUB, Insub Meta Orchestra, Komatsu, La Tène and Komatsu, La Tene, Lebanon, Mama Rosin, North Africa, Plaistow, The Levant

• 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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  July 9, 2020

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  ¿Dónde estás María?, Bongo Joe Records, Colombian cumbia, Cumbia Siglo XXI, Eblis Alvarez, Les Disques Bongo Joe, Llamador drum rhythms, Los Golpeadores de la Cumbia, Meridian Brothers, tambora