What do you get if you mix a pound of Fela Kuti's Afrika 70, two cupfuls of The Meters, 250g of thinly sliced early James Brown and a level dessert spoon of psychedelic rock? - you get the heaving, convulsing powerhouse of soul music that is The Hot Grits. For over five years, this 11 piece band...
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...
Tamikrest means “crossing” in the language of the Kel Tamashek, a traditionally nomadic Saharan people that are commonly referred to as the Tuaregs. It is an apt name for a band that so successfully merges the values of their timeless culture with the sounds and visions they have encountered on a...
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...
Fiery Argentine trio Las Kellies return with their fourth album, which features a wonderfully eclectic collection of tracks, drawing on their post-punk and punk roots with added inspired from reggae and dance music as well as bands like The Slits and ESG . This heralds a new sound for the band,...
Having celebrated a decade as one of Scottish music’s most distinctively sublime voices, Emily Smith begins a fresh chapter in her illustrious, award-winning, TV-appearing career. For her fifth solo album Echoes, Emily returns to her first love of traditional song. Her gift for finding a personal...
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...
Tincian is the second album by 9Bach, the group formed by Lisa Jen (also known for her work with Gruff Rhys) and Martin Hoyland. It's an atmospheric, emotional record that reflects their home environment of Gerlan, North Wales. Tincian is the perfect description: an allusive, mercurial Welsh word...
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...
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.
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 the Foundation in 1989 and the Commercial Breakthrough with ‘WUNDERKAMMER’ (2006) and a dramatic Change in 2010 (5th SINIPHONIE) with the probably world Darkest and most Deadly Funeral String Orchestra the World has seen , THE DEAD BROTHERS ,around Puppet Master of DISASTER and Nr1...
William Onyeabor is a box set of eight (really nine) of the albums elusive Nigerian synth-funk pioneer. William Onyeabor self-released between 1977 and 1985 — remastered and officially available for the first time. His music represents the epitome of the golden era of Nigerian funk, before he gave...
Best of the early years of Jacques Brel.
Formed in 2002 at the Mediterranian seaport Barcelona, CHE SUDAKA today are known as a flagship group of Mestizo Music around the globe: wherever the two Argentinean brothers Leo and Kachafaz and their two Colombian comrades Cheko and Jota appear, their fusion of Cumbia, Ska and Punk guarantees...
By the time Tal National reached international acclaim with 2013’s ‘Kaani’, the band’s first release outside of Niger, they had spent more than a decade crisscrossing their native country, usually on dirt pathways through the Sahara, playing epic five-hour sets, seven days a week, selling their CDs...