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Derya Yilddrim Yarin Yoksa review

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek : Yarın Yoksa

The Berlin-based group’s Leon Michels-produced new LP incorporates funk, Anatolian rock and psychedelic folk in a fusion swirl

Ebo Taylor Jazz Is Dead review

Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad : Jazz Is Dead 022

In a 2024 conversation during Jazz Is Dead‘s L.A. Philharmonic residency, label co-founder and hip-hop…

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar announces new acoustic album, Tears of Injustice

Mdou Moctar has announced a new album, Tears of Injustice, a re-recorded and newly arranged…

Mdou Moctar Funeral for Justice review

Mdou Moctar : Funeral for Justice

An electrifying protest album that’ll stop you in your tracks

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar releases new single “Oh France”

‘Funeral For Justice’ is out on Friday, May 3

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar releases new song, “Imouhar”

‘Funeral For Justice’ out May 3

charif megarbane marzipan review

Charif Megarbane – Marzipan

The Lebanese multi-instrumentalist delivers a lush, psychedelic set of analog instrumentals with the flow of a beat tape

Tinariwen Amatssou review

Tinariwen : Amatssou

The long-running Tuareg band provide another set of effortless brilliance

Paul Simon Graceland Treble 100

Treble 100: No. 76, Paul Simon – Graceland

On his landmark 1986 album, Simon worked with South African musicians and created a landmark album

Jorge Ben Africa Brasil

Treble 100: No. 82, Jorge Ben – Africa Brasil

A transformational album of samba-rock, funk and Afro-Brazilian consciousness from the legendary singer/songwriter

Kel Tinariwen reissue

Tinariwen announce reissues of three albums

Cassette-only debut to be released on vinyl for the first time in November.

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar announces new EP, Niger EP Vol. 1

New set of alternate and live versions from 2017 to 2020

Avalanche Kaito review

Avalanche Kaito : Avalanche Kaito

A mesmerizing hybrid between griot and noise rock.

the best Jorge Ben albums

A Beginner’s Guide to the shape-shifting samba of Jorge Ben

A set of essentials for first-timers to the Brazilian music legend’s catalog

Ibibio Sound Machine tour

Ibibio Sound Machine announce tour dates

Plus hear the Joe Goddard remix of “All That You Want”

Congotronics International Where's the One review

Congotronics International : Where’s the One?

An international collaboration powered by groove and largely unchecked energy.

best electronic albums of 2022 Ibibio Sound Machine

Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity

Groove is sacred on this eclectic and ecstatic set of Afrobeat-inspired dance tracks.