Strut are proud to announce the brand new studio album by one of Ghana’s all-time great vocalists, “The Golden Voice Of Africa”, Pat Thomas, in conjunction with the Kwashibu Area Band led by multi-instrumentalist Kwame Yeboah (Cat Stevens, Patrice) and saxophonist Ben Abarbanel-Wolff (Ebo Taylor,...
‘Nyanza’ is the third album from the cross-cultural, boundary surpassing Owiny Sigoma Band. For their third offering, the band travelled to the Nyanza Province of Western Kenya – home of their two members Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko – to explore the birthplace of Luo music. A complex,...
PLEASE WELCOME THE THE VOODOO RHYTHM FAMILY: THE ONE AND ONLY:ROLANDO BRUNO Y SU ORQUESTRA MIDI !!! 2005 He started playing and recording in Buenos Aires as a side project for his raw 60's Garage Punk outfit Los Peyotes (dirty water records).They were touring Europe several times when they split up...
ll around Kidal, the Malian desert stretches in every direction. Endless horizons of rock and sand, barren and parched. This is the southwestern edge of the Sahara, the home of the Tuareg people, and the town of Kidal is one of their main cultural centres. Fought over, conquered and re-conquered,...
Something is stirring in downtown Tucson. That’s no great surprise perhaps: Calexico have been sending out missives from the desert for 20 years now, Giant Sand for even longer than that, and the Green on Red revival is surely overdue. These three giants of American popular music ask questions of...
A window into the full-blooded, captivating spirit of music from the Andes, ANDINA shines a fresh perspective on Peru’s Andean heritage. A co-release with Strut Records, the album is selected from records released between ‘68 and ‘78, upending cliched ideas of Andean music and bringing to light the...
The Original Sound of Burkina Faso follows the hugely successful ‘The Original Sound of Mali’ compilation released earlier this year. Here we have a collection of songs that pay tribute to a truly golden age of music; touching on folk, funk, blues, highlife, disco, psyche, latin, rock and soul.
Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. The band’s aptly named third album, “III”, is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album’s...
Strut presents the new album from the modern day leader of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti. The youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is as incensed by injustice as his father ever was and, with his mighty new album Black Times including a feature from Carlos Santana, he honours the revolutionaries who...
The South Africa of the late 1970s was neither the right place nor time to launch a mixed-race punk band. Yet, following the student-inspired Soweto Uprising of 1976, it was also exactly the right conditions to foster a band like National Wake, one formed in an underground commune, and one whose...
Hawai'i '13 debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart and #77 on the Top 200 Chart! Hawai'i '13 features 13 new songs including the hit singles “Take Me On” and “Good One,” along with “Power In The Words,” “Something About It,” “Chocolates & Roses,” “Hold Me Tight” and more! Produced by Danny...
Since forming, the four0piece have undergone a meteoric rise in popularity (currently supporting The Strypes on their UK tour), rising from a crowd pleasing, gig-opening favourite at Dublin's Whelan's hotspot to garnering widespread recognition across the UK, supporting the likes of The...
SÓLSTAFIR are different. Their unique blend of metal with beautiful melodies, psychedelic moments and a strong undercurrent of classic / hard rock comes as varied and at times appealingly bizarre as the landscapes of their native Iceland. Their fifth full-length ‘Ótta’ is the logical continuation...
2001 Manu Chao CD album featuring 17 tracks.
2002 Manu Chao CD album featuring 28 tracks.
2005 Manu Chao CD album featuring 23 tracks.
2007 Manu Chao CD album featuring 20 tracks.
After “Many Things”, released in 2008, and “From Africa With Fury: Rise” in 2011, “A Long Way To The Beginning” is the third album by Seun Anikulapo Kuti with Egypt 80, the 14 musicians big band he’s been leading since the death of his father Fela Kuti in 1997. It’s actually the third part of a...
Two CD 2009 Manu Chao album featuring 33 tracks.
Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa”, Pat Thomas, returns with his frst full career retrospective on Strut this Autumn, covering his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the “burger highlife” movement of the early ‘80s. Growing up with music around him (“my uncle,...
