Maluf System, a duo of Tunisian musician and multi-instrumentalist Marzouk Mejri and Neapolitan musician and ethnomusicologist Salvatore Morra. The album presents itself as a true anthology of the maluf repertoire - one of the most complex traditional music genres of Tunisia - thoroughly exploring its revival in migratory contexts, along with the changes and new modes of...

Ten years after they began working together Tarek Abdallah and Adel Shams El Din have collaborated in total harmony to build this new opus. Their compositions follow the model of the Near Eastern musical suite, wasla, which links forms of different cycles in the same mode, maqam. While retaining modal improvisation as a central element, they continue using traditional...

The exhilarating combination of Burkina Faso born urban griot Kaito Winse and fellow experimentalists Belgian guitarist Nico Gitto and French drummer/producer Benjamin Chaval. Their new album Talitakum is revealing an energy and spiritual. Polyrhythmic futurism, raw epiphanie, a rattling ritual of ecstatic noise.

The exhilarating combination of Burkina Faso born urban griot Kaito Winse and fellow experimentalists Belgian guitarist Nico Gitto and French drummer/producer Benjamin Chaval. Their new album Talitakum is revealing an energy and spiritual. Polyrhythmic futurism, raw epiphanie, a rattling ritual of ecstatic noise.

A veteran of the great Malian orchestra, the Super Biton de S?gou, Mama Sissoko is a rare musician. With his feverish voice, fast tempo and thoughtful lyrics, his alert, attentive music traverses Mandingo, Bambara, and other traditions, while flirting with jazz. Live' was recorded at a concert in Paris at La Villette in 1998.

A veteran of the great Malian orchestra, the Super Biton de S?gou, Mama Sissoko is a rare musician. With his feverish voice, fast tempo and thoughtful lyrics, his alert, attentive music traverses Mandingo, Bambara, and other traditions, while flirting with jazz. Live' was recorded at a concert in Paris at La Villette in 1998.

Saramaccan Sound (Suriname) are a brother duo - Dwight Sampie and Robert Jabini - who write and perform flowing acoustic songs sung in Saramaccan, the language from the Americas with the most African elements. Their debut album was recorded in situ by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (Parchman Prison Prayer, Ustad Saami, The Good Ones) along a remote riverside in the Amazon region...

Fuzz guitars, horns and mind-blowing percussion create an explosive mix of psychedelic electric sound. The group gave his music a name, afro-mandingo, a Latin afro-jazz tendency permeated, mixing modern and older cultures.