The 1960s and 1970s scene across dozens of Africa countries remains one of the most fertile music periods in modern history, one that has long battled erasure from […]
Analog Africa
James Brown meets Merengue, Rumba and Soukous on this essential collection of influential Congolese Funk from saxophonist Verckys’ L’Orchestre Vévé. James Brown himself would dub Verckys “Mister Dynamite” […]
The sound of ’70s funk (James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations) meets Bob Marley reggae-mania filtered through Mogadishu’s luxury hotel-based live music scene. “Somalia had […]
A joyous universal sound made from cultures colliding! Seriously infectious basslines throughout that will get any crowd moving… Recommended! All the tracks on Pop Makossa are a revelation. […]
Space Echo presents the brilliantly colorful sound of electrified “funana” music that was supposedly developed after a ship carrying synthesizers by Moog, Farfisa, Hammond and Korg crashed onto […]
Echos Hypnotiques is one of those transportive, uplifting records you want to keep handy for days when you need something enjoyable and easy to digest from start to […]