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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Tulegur |
Wind Dance
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Walk Away | Sea of Wood | 'Walk Away ' is Tulegur's second album to be released internationally and comes after a time of reflection and evolution. The original duo has now transformed into a trio. Focussing on the lead singer’s struggle to reconcile his ethnic Mongolian identity with a modern upbringing and a lack belonging to either, it takes folk melodies and folk inspired melodies sung in a traditional style and smashes them against grunge and prog rock particles in a musical hadron collider of an album. - PR | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Buzz’ Ayaz |
Efdji
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Buzz’ Ayaz | Glitterbeat | Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, and led by Antonis Antoniou, the founder of Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia. Their self-titled debut album is a fuzzed-out urban soundscape of dubby electronics, 70s-psych organ, growling bass clarinet, amplified folk instruments, ritual beats and Greek and Anatolian melodicism. - PR | 0:05:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Etran de L'Aïr |
Igrawahi
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100% Sahara Guitar | Sahel Sounds | Etran de L’Aïr the STARS OF THE AÏR, the longest running wedding band in AGADEZ, capital of Tuareg guitar, return with a new album of sun-schlazed desert sound! Their first album, No.1, brought their music to critics and fans. Their second album, Agadez, sent them into the international touring circuit. And now they're back with 100% SAHARA GUITAR, ready to take on the world, with those swinging melodies, like a sandstorm blowing in from across the sea. - bandcamp | * | 0:09:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Peni Candra Rini |
Raden Panji
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Wani | New Amsterdam Records | Peni Candra Rini is an Indonesian composer, song writer and singer. She is also a lecturer in the department of Karawitan at the Indonesian Institute of Art. - bandcamp | * | 0:14:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Ánnámáret |
Eanan
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Bálvvosbáiki | Uksi Productions | The music on the album Bálvvosbáiki ("Worship") combines the old traditional Sámi yoik and the old Karelian/Estonian tradition of the bowed lyre called jouhikko with a completely new electronic soundscape. It is the result of a collaboration between musicians Ánnámáret (yoik), Ilkka Heinonen (bowed lyre) and Turkka Inkilä (electronic music). | 0:18:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Warsaw Village Band & Bassałyki |
Czas kosic
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Sploty | Karrot Kommando | The Warsaw Village Band, almost from the very beginning, has been forming various marriages, inviting guests, creating sonic coalitions. Without limitations, without genre patterns, against trends and fashions. In 2022 they decided to invite music producers and instrumentalists: Grzegorz Rytka, Michał Marecki, and Jerzy Markuszewski to collaborate on the project. This is how the Bassałyki were created. - PR | 0:24:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Hornorkesteret |
Utrøst
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Dans fra dalstrøka | Hornorkesteret is a sextet who use fiddle-like instruments constructed from reindeer antlers and moose skull, with field recordings, percussion and different acoustic instruments. Hornorkesteret explore the outer limits of acoustic sound, and have claimed a tonal space of their own. The expressive reindeer antler instruments are rich in overtones and texture, and can sound like animal cries or human voices. | * | 0:29:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Baba Zula |
Pisi Pisi Halayı
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İstanbul Sokakları | Glitterbeat | This legendary Istanbul band remains the most experimental exponent of the hotly-tipped contemporary Turkish psych-rock scene. BaBa ZuLa are revered sonic trailblazers who have built a cult following in all corners of the globe and have counted members of Einstürzende Neubauten, Can and Nick Cave the Bad Seeds as their fans. - bandcamp | 0:36:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Elektro Hafiz |
San Anemos feat. Eleni Vratti
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Style is Prison | The concept of Style is Prison brings together a variety of genres and features artists from many cultures. Elektro Hafız, a multidisciplinary artist, has crafted this album as a statement against categorization. The album includes collaborations with Nefeli Fasouli, Ben Büdü, Kardelen, Grup Ses, Gökalp K, Eleni Vratti, Fotini Kokkala, Onur Öztürk, Güntuğ Eren, Tobias Kreusler, Onofon, Jimi Leonidas, and Ein Punk Band. - bandcamp | * | 0:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Choduraa Tumat |
Arbay-bile taraa bolza
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Singing River | Pan | This CD contains 11 tracks of songs and melodies from Tuva, some are old and traditional, others are newly composed following traditional styles. Choduraa worked for 7 years on this CD, the recordings date from 2017 to 2024. This CD gives an impression of her song writing abilities, her talent as a solo- and ensemble musician, and her versatility as a singer and instrumentalist. All songs on this album are connected to nature, three of the songs are even about rivers. - PR | 0:43:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| A Moving Sound & ETHEL |
Dynasty Falls
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Wheel of Life | Arc | Taiwanese whirlwind A Moving Sound unites with NYC’s pioneering classical string quartet ETHEL! This beautiful collision of creative forces brings us "The Wheel of Life", a transformative experience of stories-within-music and a crucible for personal evolution. With Mia Hsieh's evocative vocals riding the transcendent wave of ETHEL’s gorgeous strings, it courageously showcases a joy for creative experimentation and a penchant for dismantling boundaries. - PR | 0:49:27 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Russudan Meipariani featuring Ensemble Anchiskhati |
Voices & Mountains
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Voices & Mountains | Timezone Records | Russudan Meipariani is a Georgian composer, pianist and singer. Her music combines classical, minimal music, georgian polyphonie, contemporary new music, and works with elements of pop culture. The soundscape that Russudan's music creates is academic and archaic, contemplative and extrovert, dreamy and wild, strange and familiar at the same time. - Bandcamp | 0:55:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Kasbah Rockers |
Ya Habib (with Sapho)
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The Singles | Barraka el Farnatshi | Moroccan artist collective, melting since the 90's Algerian, Middle Eastern, African, Tribal roots with diverse styles of Electronica, as influences of Dub, Trip Hop, Psy Trance and Dance sounds... - bandcamp | 1:04:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Aina |
Yagai
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Ekonda | musique de sibérie | Evenk singer AINA is releasing her second album. “post-ethno” – what follows after the archaic. It does not contradict tradition and history, but it continues it. The new album includes songs based on traditional texts from the northern epic: Kumalan – about a traditional carpet made of many scraps of deer skin sewn together in the form of a mosaic; Girkiyo – about the value of friendship, as well as original compositions on the nature of the far north – “Fire” – about the power of the fiery element and “Shaman Girl" – a song about the shaman girl, because it is the Evenks who differ from other indigenous peoples of Siberia in that a woman there could be not only the head of the family, but also a shaman. - PR | 1:08:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Meridian Brothers |
Mandala
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Mi Latinoamérica Sufre | Bongo Joe | Since 1998, Bogotá-based Colombian composer, producer and multi-instrumental alchemist Eblis Álvarez has been cooking up a mad brew of psychedelic sounds in his laboratory-cum-studio under the moniker Meridian Brothers. - PR | 1:10:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Julián Mayorga |
Sueño con culebras
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Chak Chak Chak Chak | Glitterbeat | Avant-garde Colombian singer-songwriter Julián Mayorga returns with his ninth album, a clattering, absurdist slice of post-cumbia psychedelia. Chak Chak Chak Chak is a feverish mix of angular electric guitars, circuit-bent beats, found percussion and rapid-fire incantations, with influences that include Tom Zé, Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart. - bandcamp | 1:14:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Taikuh Jikang |
Kappa the Do-do-itz
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Birds | microActio | TaikuhJikang is a unique musical unit that reinterprets the magical music of Bali, "gamelan," in a modern context, and opens up new musical horizons. Their 5th album, their first in three years, is based on the concept of "birds" that fly freely from genre, category, country, and land. - bandcamp | 1:17:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Jaune Toujours |
Sans-Papiers
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Vertigo | Choux de Bruxelles | The album continues the band's tradition of breaking boundaries - be it linguistic or musical - with lyrics in English, French, and Dutch, catchy songs, a punk attitude, drum & brass, accordion dub, and Belgian ska. - bandcamp | 1:23:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Loya |
Hoya Aho Neny
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Blakaz Antandroy | Blakaz Antandroy is an innovative album by Loya in collaboration with the Remanindry family—father Remanindry and his children Samba, Nindry, Isabelle, and Adeline. From the Antandroy people, a shamanic community in southern Madagascar, they use traditional songs and instruments to invoke spirits called "Kukulamp," offering healing in areas far from modern medicine. This unique project originated from a commission by the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, asking Loya to create a concert for a Madagascar exhibition using the museum's sound archives. Loya discovered Remanindry’s music and was captivated. In 2019, he traveled to Toliara to meet the musician, leading to a powerful musical connection and the idea for Blakaz Antandroy, a project fusing Antandroy shamanic music with electronic soundscapes. - PR | * | 1:30:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Seun Kuti |
Move
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Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless head) | Coming 6 years after the Grammy nominated album ‘Black times’, this album marks a pivotal moment in Seun Kuti's illustrious career, showcasing his evolution as an artist and activist. Executive produced by legendary musician Lenny Kravitz and Fela Kuti’s original engineer Sodi Marciszewer (artistic producer), ‘Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)’ promises to deliver a sonic experience like no other. With both Kravitz's and Sodi’s expertise together with Seun Kuti's unmatched talent, the album is poised to redefine the boundaries of contemporary music while staying true to the roots of afrobeat. - bandcamp | 1:34:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| K.O.G. |
Odo Sronko
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Don't Take My Soul | A mask or a group, K.O.G. (for Kweku Of Ghana) has always liked to hide, a way for him to reveal himself as little as possible. Preferring to create fanciful characters so as not to show who he is. Who he really is. But, since Zone 6, Agege, his first solo album, the armor lets the light through. With Don’t Take My Soul, K.O.G. chose to lower the voltage to no longer hide its weaknesses behind arcs of pure energy. On the contrary, they are now exposed in all their vulnerability. “I’m no longer afraid to show a completely different side of my music, to be more soulful and less crazy.” - PR | 1:40:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| SOBA |
Politiki Magni
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Fiman | Formed by singer-guitarist Moussa Koita, harmonica player Vincent Bucher and drummer Émile Biayenda, Soba renews the links between Mandingo song and Mississippi blues. An afro-blues as rustic as it is luminous, through which the trio explores the recesses of the human soul. - PR | * | 1:45:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Accra Quartet |
Abɔmmɔfo (Hunters)
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Gbɛfalɔi (Travelers) | FPE | Contemporary music in Ghana is dominated by a mix of afrobeats, electric gospel, and an emergent revival of highlife stars from the 1970s. This set of improvised music sits on a different axis — at once traditional and Avant Garde, ancient and futuritive, extremely local and thoroughly cosmopolitan. Anchored in folkloric instruments and free improvisation, the music is more like the Art Ensemble of Chicago than the court drummers of the Ashanti king. A rare gem. - bandcamp | 1:49:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Nfaly Diakité |
Negue Tigui
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Hunter Folk Vol 1 - Tribute to Toumani Koné | Born in 1989 in Bamako, Mali, Nfaly Diakité is a member of the Donsow, Bambara animist hunters. Nfaly Diakité is named after his grandfather, the late Nfaly Diakité, one of Mali’s most respected donso chiefs. His grandfather did not play, but as a leading figure in the donso brotherhood, he was always accompanied by musician Yoro Sidibé. Nfaly grew up alongside Yoro Sidibé, who became his first master of the donso ngoni, a type of eight-stringed antelope skin harp. After leaving school to devote himself to his instrument, Nfaly continued his apprenticeship with Diakaria Diakité and Oumar Sidibé, two donso masters from the Wassolo region. He quickly made a name for himself in the donso community and was much asked to play at the traditional ceremonies of his brotherhood - bandcamp | 1:54:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Ekuka Morris Sirikiti |
Cil Paco
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TE-KWARO ALANGO-EKUKA | Nyege Nyege Tapes | ...for the first time in his life, Ekuka finally stepped into a proper studio, spending two weeks re-discovering and re-recording his old songs. These new versions capture the artist's virtuosity in microscopic detail: the characteristic rattling sound of his lukeme, an ancient African thumb piano, takes pride of place, but his assertive, agile voice also sounds as if it's been unlocked. - PR | * | 2:02:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Dogo Du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band |
Nye Dzi
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Avoudé | Traditional Togolese rhythms form the base of rising Togolese artist. The songs are based on togolese traditional rhythms with ritual melodies (voodoo melodies) festive melodies, and talk about immigration, social justice... Born in Lome, Togo,Dogo played in different bands in the Togolese capital before moving to the United States and founded the DC based Afropop band, Elikeh. - bandcamp | * | 2:05:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Okwy Osadebe & Highlife Soundmakers |
Egbunam
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Ifunanya | Palenque | n the world of African Highlife music, Okwy Osadebe emerges once again to captivate hearts with his latest studio album, "IFUNANYA", following the international acclaim of his debut, "Igbo Amaka". "IFUNANYA", translating to "Love" or "Loving Someone" in English, is more than just a collection of songs; it's an exploration into the true, unadulterated essence of love. - bandcamp | 2:09:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Orchestre Safari Sound |
Garba
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Various Artists: Zanzibara 11: Congo in Dar- Dance No Sweat | Buda Musique | The 1960s and 1970s moreover had seen the influx of a number of bands from neighboring Congo-Zaire. Typically contracted by some of the upmarket clubs and hotels in Dar es Salaam and Arusha for a limited time, some of the individual musicians and bands stayed on, among those the musicians of the future Orchestre Maquis and Orchestre Safari Sound - PR | 2:16:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Dizzy Mandjeku & Odemba OK Allstars |
Odemba #1
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Odemba Nostalgie - Rumba Congolaise | Zephyrus Records | Dizzy Mandjeku is considered a living guitar legend. The guitar riff from Stromae’s Papaoutai, ten years on tour with Zap Mama and besties with Baloji. Over the years he has built up an entire repertoire with the greats of Congolese rumba. Cuban rumba was vibrant in Congo and it didn’t take long before traditional elements started to blend with modern instruments. With Franco Luambo and his band T.P.O.K. Jazz at the forefront, the music evolved into a brand new style called Rumba Odemba. Dizzy, having been a member of the T.P.O.K. Jazz later founded the Odemba OK Allstars in Brussels in order to keep th unique ‘Rumba Odemba’ alive. - bandcamp | 2:27:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Africa Negra |
San Victoria
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Antologia Vol. 2 | Venerable band from Sao Tome & Principe | 2:37:09 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Karantamba |
Mama Kelela
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Galgi | Teranga Beat | * | 2:39:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Zaire All Stars |
Je T'aime Au Pluriel
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Various Artists: Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola | Strut | 2:44:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Orquesta Akokán |
La Siete Vidas de Ines
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Caracoles | * | 2:54:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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