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.
Native productions, remixes, wild disco, afro-house… here is a tour of the world’s non-traditional world music.
Discover the British avant-garde crate-digging label run by Andy Votel and Doug Shipton.
Less is more, and I think no instrument proves it better than the berimbau.
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