Raashan’s albums The Push and the groundbreaking For What You’ve Lost garnered worldwide attention and earned him the devoted admiration of fans as he has toured feverishly throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. He plays two sets at Momo’s on 25 and 26 October 2011. Continue reading Raashan Ahmad at Momo’s London
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‘The Malian Hip Hop prodigy honouring the African youth’ profiled by his international manager and one of his biggest fans Marie-Agnes Beau Continue reading Amkoullel – The Fula Child
What with the “Produced By Manu Chao” sticker on the cover and the Metro’s ‘Album of the Week’, what more do you want from SMOD’s third album?
The long awaited return of the purveyors of beats and soul, Modest, Fabulous & deBore (aka Belleruche) and they’re got 270 Stories to tell on their latest album that’s out on the wonderful Tru-Thoughts label.
ACT are determined to prove they are ‘Label Of The Year’ as they’ve gone and done it again with a live jazz trio album by Wollny, Kruse & Schaefer, aka [em].
Continue reading [em] – Live at JazzBaltica Festival (Wollny Kruse Schaefer)
Kaloom?© follow up the 2004 debut album Sin Fronteras with 13 tracks drenched in Catalan heritage that’s De Otro Color.
Yep, it’s that time of the year when summery summer sonics often have a Tour de France reference. And this is the best of this years’ bunch from the Memory Tapes is ‘Bicycle’.
Idir, a musical superstar hailing from Algeria is credited as being one of forces behind the surge of urban ra?Ø music. Moroccan Chaabi singer Najat Aatabou has changed the face of Moroccan music with her powerful lyrics and compositions in both French and English. We caught up with both artists recently to speak about their trip to America
Continue reading A Night in the Maghreb – Idir and Najat Aatabou at Lincoln Center
The geek fact about this album was that it was recorded from start to finish on 2″ analog tape but is that enough for Rob da Bank’s latest signings on Sunday Best as they release their debut album?
Mauricio Pacheco’s passion for Angolan music has flowered into a wonderful album of reinterpretations of classic Angolan tunes by the cutting edge of Brazil’s underground scene
Continue reading Comfusoes – from Angola to Brasil with Producer Mauricio Pacheco
Louise Gray, the music correspondent for the New Internationalist, has written the most thought-provoking and enjoyable exploration of this whole ‘world music’ thing. She tells Fly what led her to write a book unlike any other on this subject
Continue reading Louise Gray – The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music
King Cannibal (aka Dylan Richards) is ready to boil us all in his big pot with this 12″ on Ninja Tune; why do we enjoy being murdered like this?
Sei A (aka Andy Graham) finds his second release in the dark passages of ‘Knowing Innocence’; it’s so deep!
