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...

EAN: 3341348604077 Saodaj is the image of a plural, vast, infinite country: Reunion. A music in love with Maloya, emancipated and wandering. In Creole, in French, their lyrics rise up and are indignant, seeking beauty in the darkness of the world. Saodaj has been forging its path for a decade between tradition and modernity, where the alternative rock of saturated strings is...

EAN 3596974887367 Mit der 2025 erscheinenden Ausgabe der Rare Groove Collection tauchen wir ein in die pulsierende Klangwelt Nordafrikas. Diese Doppel-LP vereint seltene Tracks aus Algerien, Marokko, Libyen und Tunesien, die zwischen den späten 70ern und frühen 80ern entstanden sind - eine Zeit, in der traditionelle Rhythmen auf Soul, Funk und Disco trafen. Die Compilation...

EAN: 4030433601617 Mit Yenbett kehrt die mauretanische Sängerin Noura Mint Seymali eindrucksvoll zurück. Bereits die ersten beiden Tracks - zwei Versionen des Songs "Lehjibb" - zeigen die Spannweite ihres musikalischen Ausdrucks: archaische Klanglandschaften mit der traditionellen Harfe ardine treffen auf flirrende E-Gitarren, donnernde Drums und hypnotischen Gesang. Seymali...