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MopMop's Isle Of Magic contains 13 tracks of pure voodoo jazz, Caribbean flavors, Afro-funk, exotic rhythms and soul music. The album has been recorded between Germany and Italy with the use of vintage analog equipment to achieve a sound with all the warm qualities of vintage analog tape recordings.
Próxima Estación: Esperanza (English: Next Stop: Hope) is an album by Manu Chao. It was released in Europe in 2001. It was released in the United States on 5 June 2001 on Virgin Records.
Fatou is the debut album from Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara. Uncut placed the album at number 34 on its list of "Top 50 albums of 2011", The Sunday Times named it number 1 world music album in the 2011 end of year polls and WMCE voted it 2011 album of the year.
Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursionsinto the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tingled funkmusic originating from Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. This is an album of the world.Not “world music”- but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”
Akokán is a Yoruba word used in Cuba meaning “from the heart,” and indeed, every song on the self-titled debut album (March 30/Daptone Records) by Orquesta Akokán feels like a heartfelt gift from the band to the listener. Assembled and led by Cuban vocalist José “Pepito” Gómez, Orquesta Akokán is a big band collective of the finest musicians on the...
"Solidarity" is a new collaborative album featuring a range of unique artists from their country's vibrant underground groove scene. Rooted in rhythmically rich musical traditions of the past, the collective have kept their eyes on the future, pushing the boundaries of soul, jazz and tropical styles with a set of heavyweight new songs, unified by a...
This compilation revisits Ebo Taylor's work, focusing on his solo albums and some of his projects including the dynamite Apagya Show Band and short-lived Taylor-led combos Assase Ase, Super Sounds Namba and The Pelikans. The selection also touches on his writing and production work for C.K. Mann and a collaboration recording with fellow member of early...
"Unstraight Ahead" finds the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing. On this album, the West African sounds of Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke’s Ethiopian jazz and are tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of Karl Hector & The Malcouns’ 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can,...
The Brazilian Boogie Connection: From Rio To Sao Paulo (1976-1983) Artists like Jorge Ben and Marcos Valle have been legendary and influential for decades, and the duo Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti dominated the Rio studio scene in the '80s before creating huge buzz overseas in recent years. Banda Black Rio and Cassiano are also both household names...
The Budos Band is an instrumental band recording on the Daptone Records label. Jazz, Deep Funk, Afro-Beat, Soul and Heavy-Metal influences can be heard in the Budos Band recordings, all of which were released on Daptone Records and recorded at the label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Brooklyn, New York.
The Whitefield Brothers are Jan and Max Weissenfeldt, was previously known as the "Poets of Rhythm" beginning in 1991. As the Whitefield Brothers, they released 2 albums "In the Raw" in 2001 and "Earthology" in 2010. The making of Earthology took 15 years ! In the LP are involved Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P and MED, Antibalas, El Michels Affair,...
Canada’s collective The Souljazz Orchestra are back with brand new journey into tropical, soul and jazz styles on their new release, ‘Under Burning Skies’.Musically, the band continue to push the limits, dusting off ‘80s vintage synthesizers and early drum machines for the first time, bringing lo fi disco, boogie and electro touches to their trademark...
Warm and dark, psychedelic and yet grounded, uplifting but at times somber - Seu Jorge & Almaz self-titled album for Now Again Records in 2010
Tim Maia (September 28, 1942 – March 15, 1998) was a Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. He introduced the soul style on the Brazilian musical scene. Tim Maia is internationally recognised as one of the biggest icons of the Brazilian music. 15 newly remastered tracks....
Chega de Saudade is the debut album from João Gilberto and is often credited as the first bossa nova album. The title can be translated roughly as "enough longing", though the Portuguese word saudade carries with it more complex meaning. In 2001, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as the fourth best...
Buena Vista Social Club is the debut album by the eponymous ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder. It was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, on World Circuit. Despite its success, it remains the only standard studio album exclusively credited to...
Official re-issue on Knitting Factory of Fela's 1975 classic 'Everything Scatter', featuring the great Tony Allen on drums.
Having made her mark on Brazil’s rich musical legacy with three best-selling albums to date, Rio’s original nu-bossa queen Sabrina Malheiros returns with a tour de force of golden-era Brazilian soul music in Clareia.
Getz/Gilberto is a jazz and bossa nova album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring pianist and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim), who also composed many of the tracks. It was released in March 1964 on Verve Records. The album features the vocals of Astrud Gilberto on two tracks, "Garota de Ipanema"...
Azymuth went on to become one of the best-selling jazz artists of the 80s with their future albums for Milestones, unquestionably the biggest jazz label of that decade. Azimüth is the album that kickstarted it all for them, the album contains some of the band’s most incendiary tracks, and is the record that was the blue print and definition of their...
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