World Music

One hour to discover the most famous samba school in Rio de Janeiro. 

When the natural world is sampled it plunges the listener into an immersive musical experience.

Peaceful songs to help you journey through time and music, and into slumber.

Ariel Pink never wanted to be famous. Yet he is the master of writing hits that never existed. Is he simply a plagiarist? Or is it that more and more people are copying him these days?

Let’s take a few tours and detours all over the continent to discover some of its guitar masters. To hear them at their best you often have to wait until the 1st verse or chorus is over; wait for the song to bloom and for the guitarist to rise.

Rarely has a musician been so wholly eclectic and cosmopolitan. We take a look back at the astonishing career of the jazz trumpeter who was always at the service of world music.

An expression of social and political life, the Carnival is also a liminal space of transgression, offering a celebratory freedom of expression synonymous with challenging the powers that be.
 

Eclectic Brazilian pop diva Marisa Monte undoubtedly had one of the most successful careers in the history of this musical continent.

During the 1960s, when the accordion still held a prominent place in French chanson, bossa nova sparked interest for music from the tropics, similar to how Baudelaire and Gauguin did with the colonial exoticisms of distant islands, fantasized through biased and colored filters

Mixing drums with the sound of waves and shells, Brazilian folk music celebrates Iemanjá, the mother of all African deities

Known as O Bruxo (the Wizard), the white-bearded Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist is a cultural icon.

‘Afrophone stories from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.’ This is how the New York label Ostinato Records describes itself.

We look at the artists who left their mark on Blur without whom their pop may not have tasted quite so delicious.

Tony Allen, the masterful drummer who invented Afrobeat along with Fela, knew how to marry his original groove with every musical genre and each new musical generation. 

The guide to psychedelic music over the world.

It’s cocktail time on the terrace. This selection will give you a neck massage and will slowly make you move your hips.

With the embryonic stirrings of house, the global wave of the so called world music, the disco/funk turning into hip-hop, 1981 was a year that changed everything. 

From down to mid-up tempo, from Jamaica to Brazil with a French twist, from the 1960s to the 2010s, a selection to warm you up.

A history of jazz in the UK up to the present trend.

The label that brings to light forgotten gems of the Arab world.

Discover the British avant-garde crate-digging label run by Andy Votel and Doug Shipton.

Native productions, remixes, wild disco, afro-house… here is a tour of the world’s non-traditional world music.

Less is more, and I think no instrument proves it better than the berimbau.