Day by Day
 Femi Kuti | Nigeria
Playing alongside his father from a very young age, Femi quickly formed his own group, Positive Force. His first release, Shoki, Shoki [Barclay, 1998] was an international success and, like the albums which followed, mixes Afrobeat with jazz, soul and...
publication date : 11/14/2008 |
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Home Sweet Home
Moussu T e lei Jovents | France
Co-founder of Massilia Sound System, Moussu T, returns with Home Sweet Home, the third studio album recorded with Lei Jovents [Blu on guitars, banjo and Ciotadin viola, Zerbino on drums, washboard and percussion, and Jam de Silva on percussion and...
publication date : 10/28/2008 |
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Venus On Earth
Dengue Fever | United States
American rock n roll had a hold on 1960s Cambodia which even the worst ravages of the Khmer Rouge could not entirely loosen. All but destroyed by that brutal regime and the years of economic hardship that followed, when the Cambodian music scene...
publication date : 10/27/2008 |
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Compilation Jamaica 1968, Year of Reggae
Bob Marley | Jamaica
Lee 'Scratch' Perry | Jamaica
Toots & The Maytals | Jamaica
It was not only in France that 1968 was a year unlike any other. Alongside social and political uprisings just as violent as in France if not more so, in Jamaica the word “reggae” was invented that year. Hence the natural choice of “Do the Reggay”, the...
publication date : 06/18/2008 |
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Kalashnik Love
Speed Caravan | Algeria, France
Lovers of the oud who worship the instrument as a delicate icon might just be horrified by what happens to it here. Electrified and amplified by powerful Marshall amplifiers, accompanied by a debauched rhythmic bass and clothed in an electronic fur,...
publication date : 06/04/2008 |
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Battements au cœur de l’Orient
Keyvan Chemirani | France, Iran
etnbsp;etnbsp;etnbsp; Let me say straight off the bat that I witnessed the creative process of this seminal album and wrote its sleevenotes. So I am perhaps not in the most objective position to write about a CD I find outstanding in its thrust and...
publication date : 04/29/2008 |
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Mondomix Experience
Souad Massi | Algeria
etnbsp;etnbsp;etnbsp; What better way to celebrate the Mondomix’ tenth anniversary than to release a four-CD anthology of our favourite music? Here are sixty songs from the four corners of the globe that sum up the philosophy that has driven this...
publication date : 04/22/2008 |
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Umalali
The Garifuna Women's Project | Belize
When I first stumbled on the Garifunas of Central America in 1987 I was struck by the vitality of their music culture, particularly in Belize, a state that had only gained independence six years earlier. The three days of nonstop celebrations in Belize...
publication date : 04/15/2008 |
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Li Lan La
Diogal | Senegal
This warm and delicate album is the first in which Diogal is responsible for all its contents, its artistic direction and its production. And what a fine individual effort it is, marking with dignity and conviction the singer’s ten years in France. The...
publication date : 04/08/2008 |
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Many Things
Seun Kuti | Nigeria
He might only be 25 but Seun Kuti’s growing army of fans have been waiting for his inaugural album with the impatience of an area boy for a naira bill. And they won’t be disappointed with this first effort. A nervous, hard-edged and racy tempo balances...
publication date : 04/01/2008 |
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