EAN 0197190425178 The Malian guitar virtuoso, Mama Sissoko, was introduced to music by his uncle Djeli Baba Sissoko. His music history count legendary bands like Orchestra A de Bamako, Orchestre National de Bamako and Super Biton de Ségou. Sissoko uses irony in texts critical to the absurdities faced by immigrants in the post colonial realities.

EAN: 0199584143712 At the helm once again is guitarist and producer Justin Adams. Congolese rapper Youssoupha and Rwandan French rapper Gael Faye make guest appearances alongside a stellar band, which includes John Baggott on keyboard (Massive Attack, Robert Plant), Billy Fuller (Robert Plant) on bass and Howey Gill on drums.

EAN: 0199584143514 At the helm once again is guitarist and producer Justin Adams. Congolese rapper Youssoupha and Rwandan French rapper Gael Faye make guest appearances alongside a stellar band, which includes John Baggott on keyboard (Massive Attack, Robert Plant), Billy Fuller (Robert Plant) on bass and Howey Gill on drums.

EAN: 0199806774434 On his new album he explores new horizons for his instrument in improvised music. Together with his Berlin based trio, he conquers the peaks of balafon possibilities one by one, wandering between groovy African rhythms, spectacular polyphony and elements of jazz, and combining them into a fusion.

EAN: 0199806772201 On his new album he explores new horizons for his instrument in improvised music. Together with his Berlin based trio, he conquers the peaks of balafon possibilities one by one, wandering between groovy African rhythms, spectacular polyphony and elements of jazz, and combining them into a fusion.

EAN 0197190425208 The Malian guitar virtuoso, Mama Sissoko, was introduced to music by his uncle Djeli Baba Sissoko. His music history count legendary bands like Orchestra A de Bamako, Orchestre National de Bamako and Super Biton de Ségou. Sissoko uses irony in texts critical to the absurdities faced by immigrants in the post colonial realities.

EAN: 5414165091349 With a voice as commanding and enchanting as an opera performance, Kaito's masterful scansion and storytelling draw the listener into timeless truths. He plays an array of instruments?calabash, mouth bow, Peul flute, toutlé flute, and the tama, a drum known for mimicking human speech.

EAN: 5414165091356 With a voice as commanding and enchanting as an opera performance, Kaito's masterful scansion and storytelling draw the listener into timeless truths. He plays an array of instruments?calabash, mouth bow, Peul flute, toutlé flute, and the tama, a drum known for mimicking human speech.

EAN 0199066524718 New album from critically acclaimed saxophonist Benjamin Boone and violinist Stefan Poetzsch, with their New Global Ensemble, which combines musicians from the United States, Germany, Ghana, Mexico, and Ireland. The album is a combination of composition and improvisation with strong rhythms throughout. Both a meditation and a celebration.

EAN: 3341348604114 This re-release of one of the last vinyl records released in Ethiopia, but more than that it is the absolute masterpiece of Ethiopian Groove - and its swansong. It leaves posterity with a clear idea of the level of sophistication and mastery that modern Ethiopian music had reached before it was crushed under the military Stalinist boot of the Derg - the...

EAN: 3341348604121 This is Ethiopia in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, on the eve of the blossoming, or rather the explosion, of Swinging Addis. Rock'n'roll, rhythm and blues, soul and twist had not yet burst onto the scene, and the atmosphere was still steeped in the post-war big band era, with Glenn Miller's In the Mood enduring as a global anthem on a par with the Latin...

EAN: 4015698889871 Mit ihrem Debütalbum »Desturi« (»Traditionen«) beginnt Kasiva Mutua ein neues Kapitel und zeigt sich als vielseitige Künstlerin: von der gefeierten Perkussionistin hin zur Sängerin, Gitarristin und Produzentin. Desturi ist eine Feier der afrikanischen Kultur und Widerstandskraft, bestehend aus 11 eindrucksvollen Songs. Die Musik verbindet die...