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  • ALTIN GÜN

    Interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy.
    A leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock
    scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent.
  • KING AYISOBA


    Ghanaian legend creates a raw,
    emphatic sound that fuses kologo music
    with contemporary sonics.

  • GAYE SU AKYOL
     
    Gaye Su Akyol is at the forefront
    of the new Istanbul scene.
  • LIRAZ
     
    Shimmering electro-pop meets
    pulsing dance rhythms and retro
    Persian sonics.
  • AL-QASAR

    An explosive mix of heavy
    Arabian grooves, global psychedelia
    and North African trance music.
  • CATHERINE GRAINDORGE
    featuring IGGY POP

    A thrilling collaboration between the
    acclaimed Belgian composer/instrumentalist
    Catherine Graindorge and the ever-iconic
    Iggy Pop.

  • TAU & THE DRONES OF PRAISE

    Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces
    the natural world and living ancestry,
    through joyful experimentation and
    deeply rooted sonics.
  • AVALANCHE KAITO

    A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist
    and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse)
    meets a Brussels noise punk duo.
  • YANNA MOMINA

    Yanna Momina’s Afar Ways
    was recorded live in a stilt-hut
    on the horn of Africa when Grammy-
    winning producer & author, Ian Brennan
  • THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
    LED BY BACHIR ATTAR

    A collective of Jbala Sufi trance makers,
    committed to creating a contemporary
    representation of their centuries-old
    musical tradition.
  • ŠIROM
     
    A deep, resonant soundworld.
  • EL KHAT

    A careening orchestra of percussion, horns,
    strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY
    instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.
  • PARK JIHA
     
    Inventive, elegant and transcendent.
  • TRUPA TRUPA
     
    Poland's otly tipped psych/experimental
    rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
  • LUCIDVOX
     
    Incendiary mix of atmospheric psych-rock,
    heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.
  • KUUNATIC

    A thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych
    trio bolstered by diverse global sonics
    and powerful female vocals.
  • MONSIEUR DOUMANI

    A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments,
    multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.

     

  • CATHERINE GRAINDORGE

    Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge
    uses strings, harmonium and electronic
    treatments to explore intimate corners
    and widescreen vistas.
  • DAL:UM

    Ethereal and otherworldly this is music that
    treasures the space between the notes.

     

  • SAMBA TOURÉ

    The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his
    most personal and immersive album to date.
  • COMORIAN

    "We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone”
    provides a vivid opportunity to hear unvarnished,
    original songs from Grande Comore island.
  • AMMAR 808

    Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives.
  • USTAD SAAMI

    The roots of Saami's music go back to the 13th
    century - but it's message is contemporary and
    universal: “to sing is to listen.”
  • KRONONAUT

    Krononaut is a richly textured new
    ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer
    Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France.
  • TOOTARD
     
    Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary.
  • TAMIKREST

    Music always is a borderline experience.
    Especially when not only stylistically
    boundaries are shifting, but the centres of
    musical creativity are moving.
  • fra fra

    Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana.
    Hypnotic kologo excursions.
  • EDIKANFO

    Highlife meets afro-funk.
    Spirited and horn driven.
  • ORKESTA MENDOZA

    Border music withut borders.
  • PULLED BY MAGNETS

    Forget type, genre or influence: this is the
    start of a brand-new trip by one of the most
    questing musicians at work anywhere.

  • LINA_RAÜL REFREE

    Lina_Raül Refree is fado for today,
    a sound that goes beyond geography.

  • JON HASSELL
     
    Hassell’s soundworlds have been varied
    and bold and their influence on contemporary musics,
    discernable and ongoing.
  • BABA ZULA
     
    Dub, Turkish psych-rock, Anatolian folk music,
    Krautrock
    and the experimental beyond.
  • LOS PIRAÑAS
     
    Retro-futurism at its finest.
  • AZIZA BRAHIM
     
    Aziza Brahim’s is a contemporary sonic
    poet and an eloquent spokesperson for
    the Saharawi people and their struggle
    for recognition and justice.
  • BANTOU MENTALE
     
    A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld.
  • 75 DOLLAR BILL
     
    Raw electric blues, Arabic modes
    and entrancing folk minimalism
    back to the streets of New York.
  • IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE

    Sufi trance musicians and rituals –
    from the depths of the Tunisian desert –
    in conversation with post-industrial sonics.
  • NOURA MINT SEYMALI
     
    Born into a prominent family of griot
    and choosing from an early age to embrace
    the artform that is its lifeblood.
  • FOFOULAH

    Slippery West African beats, dystopian
    electronics & echoing, shamanic chants.
  • BIXIGA 70

    This ten-piece, Sao Paulo based combo,
    unleash a ground-breaking fusion of
    African and South American rhythms and
    sounds.
  • STELLA CHIWESHE

    Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe.

  • YONATAN GAT
     
    Yonatan Gat is a guitarist, producer
    and experimental composer based in New York City.
  • SONIDO GALLO NEGRO

    Sonido Gallo Negro is a stunning 9-piece,
    instrumental combo from east Mexico City
    (Aragon) that channels both the mystique
    and mysticism of 1960's Peruvian cumbia.
  • DIRTMUSIC
     
    Dirtmusic return for their fifth album,
    a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary
    Murat Ertel from Baba Zula.
  • SAZ'ISO

    The joys and sorrows of Southern Albanian song.
    Assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd.
  • JUPITER & OKWESS
     
    Jupiter and Okwess transcend the Congo’s
    unexplored musical heritage and dive into
    a pool of modernity.
  • BARGOU 08

    Bargou 08 deftly combines the little-known soundscapes
    and rhythms of the Tunisian highlands with driving electronic
    and rock textures.
  • ABATWA (THE PYGMY)

    Rough-hewn, tribal sonics from
    the Rwandan borderlands.
  • JOSHUA ABRAMS & NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY

    Mesmerizing and explorative.
    A nexus of non-western traditional musics,
    minimalism,
    krautrock textures and jazz.
  • AFRO-HAITIAN EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA
     
    An unheard and unholy mixture of Haitian voodoo
    rhythms, afrobeat drumming and Krautrock
    experimentation.
  • DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ'S SEVDAH TAKHT

    One of the most inspiring forces behind the rebirth
    of the traditional style of sevdah (also known as sevdalinka).

  • M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM
     
    A visceral, politically charged 8-piece band based
    in New York City, with most of its members hailing
    from Colombia.
  • KHMER ROUGE SURVIVORS
     
    Sublime and unheralded sounds from Cambodia.
    Heartbreaking and inspiring.
  • CHIMURENGA RENAISSANCE

    Otherworldly sonics, Zimbabwean beats,
    Congolese guitar ambiance and political resistance.
  • BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA
     
    Distortion and wah wah are now at the heart of his sound
    and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko
    serve as the perfect foil.
  • CHRIS BROKAW

    Boston-based Chris Brokaw has made an indelible
    mark on rock music both on his own as well as
    with his iconic bands Codeine and Come, and as
    a collaborator with Thurston Moore, Evan Dando,
    Stephen O’Malley and many others.
  • HANOI MASTERS
     
    Un-mediated “field” recordings of lesser-known global
    music traditions.
  • SACRI CUORI
     
    The music of Sacri Cuori is a kaleidoscopic road trip
    through imaginary 60/70’s soundtrack music
    and post-folk sonics from Italy, Europa and beyond.
  • DENNIS BOVELL
     
    Dub 4 Daze: Classic dub.
    Classic reggae.
    Classic Dennis Bovell.
  • HAYVANLAR ALEMI
     
    The flashpoint where dub music
    and global psych-rock melt together.
  • BEN ZABO
     
    A string of firecrackers igniting on the
    dance floor of a midnight party.
  • LOBI TRAORÉ


    Lobi Traoré was a true African original,
    a guitarist of profound depth and originality,
    a singer and songwriter with universal appeal.

  • BOMBINO
     
    The last couple of years have been an
    exhilarating ride for Bombino. In late
    2004, he recorded nine acoustic songs
    in the Ténéré desert, which became his
    first real album.
  • REFREE

    Mesmerizing acoustic and electric guitar explorations
    meet sampled street recordings,
    haunted voices and hushed electronics.

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  • Altın Gün – Aşk

    Their 5th album in as many years Aşk (deeper feeling of love), marks an exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterised Altın Gün’s first two albums. It is a record that radiates the infectious energy found in the Amsterdam-based sextet’s celebrated live performances.

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  • King Ayisoba – Work Hard

    “Work Hard” solidifies King Ayisoba’s reputation as both a shamanic performer and a restless sonic experimenter. A wild mashup of Ayisoba’s frenetic kologo sound and musical deep dives from an exciting roster of Ghanaian producers and contributors.

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  • Gaye Su Akyol – Anadolu Ejderi

    Acclaimed Istanbul-based artist Gaye Su Akyol is due to release her fourth album, ‘Anadolu Ejderi’ (“Anatolian Dragon”), on 25 November. Building upon her combo of Turkish psychedelia, empowered commentary and retro-futurist sonics, her vision is more personal and uncompromising than ever before.

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  • Tau & the Drones of Praise – Misneach

    The kaleidoscopic third album from Seán Mulrooney and his Ireland meets Berlin ensemble. Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces the natural world and living ancestry, through joyful experimentation and deeply rooted sonics. An inspired soundscape that echoes eclectic and eccentric atmospheres: traditional Irish folk, outsider pop, global sacred music and drone rock.

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  • Liraz – Roya

    The award-winning Israeli-Persian singer returns with “Roya” (fantasy in Farsi) an exhilarating blend of tradi-modern rhythms and retro-Persian sonics. Recorded in secrecy in Istanbul with her band from Tel Aviv and risk-defying Iranian musicians from Tehran. A musical portal to a place of peace, joy and unfettered freedom.

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  • Al-Qasar – Who Are We?

    Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar’s debut album is an explosive mix of heavy Arabian grooves, global psychedelia and North African trance music. Guests include Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) & Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys). The band calls it “Arabian fuzz.” Brazenly electric and deeply connected.

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  • Catherine Graindorge featuring Iggy Pop – The Dictator

    A thrilling collaboration between the acclaimed Belgian composer/instrumentalist Catherine Graindorge and the ever-iconic Iggy Pop. Haunting string and electronic textures melding with Iggy’s baritone, cautionary tales. A deep dive into the heart of these unsettled times.

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  • Yanna Momina – Afar Ways

    Yanna Momina’s Afar Ways was recorded live in a stilt-hut on the horn of Africa when Grammy-winning producer & author, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Zomba Prison Project, Ustad Saami) visited Djibouti in the spring of 2018. The album is beautifully focused around Momina’s resonant vocals and the sparest of musical backings (acoustic guitar, handclaps, calabash).

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  • Avalanche Kaito – Avalanche Kaito

    A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse) meets a Brussels noise punk duo. A new alloy that deconstructs both traditional and futurist knowledge. This thrilling ensemble is releasing their self-titled debut album hot on the heels of their acclaimed 4-song EP Dabalomuni (January 2022), that The Wire called “freaked, juddering electronic punk.”

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  • Dirtmusic – Hum Hum

    Dirtmusic’s journey has been one of twists and turns. In 2018, the group was enlarged to include Murat Ertel from Baba Zula and the resultant album “Bu Bir Ruya” was recognized as a breakthrough. The group’s new 2-song single Hum Hum (+ Western Lands) retains the lineup of Ertel/Eckman/Race and pushes the moody atmospherics and political critique to the next level.

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  • Faizal Mostrixx – Transitions

    Faizal Mostrixx is an afrofuturist Ugandan griot. An avant-garde music producer, who creates powerful and poetic narratives through multi-sensory disciplines (beats, video, dancing and choreography). Advancing bold tales of contemporary Africa through a counterculture prism, Mostrixx is one of electronica’s hottest up and coming ambassadors for a continent on the move.

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  • The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar – Dancing Under the Moon

    Beautifully recorded in situ in the Rif mountains in the autumn of 2019, this 110-minute double CD presents these legendary musicians expansively and unhindered. The Master Musicians are a collective of Jbala Sufi trance makers, committed to creating a contemporary representation of their centuries-old musical tradition.

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  • El Khat – Albat Alawi Op​.​99

    Rough-hewn and exhilarating, EL Khat’s second album “Albat Alawi Op.99” is a deep dive into leader Eyal el Wahab’s Yemenite roots and their inspired re-imaginings. A careening orchestra of percussion, horns, strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.

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  • YĪN YĪN – The Age Of Aquarius

    YĪN YĪN’s dazzling second album dives even deeper into dancefloor propulsion and space travel atmospherics than their lauded debut The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers (2019). Funk and disco beats. Electro experimentation. Global retro vibes. A shimmering, cinematic sweep.

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  • Lucidvox – Burn the Grief

    Following the rave reception of their debut album “We Are,” the acclaimed Russian four-piece Lucidvox have returned 14 months later with a thunderous and lushly produced two-song digital single.

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  • Avalanche Kaito – Dabalomuni (EP)

    Avalanche Kaito: a Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse) meets a Brussels noise punk duo (Drummer/dataist Benjamin Chaval and guitarist Nico Gitto). It’s a completely new alloy and a huge opportunity to deconstruct both traditional and futurist knowledge.

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  • Trupa Trupa – B FLAT A

    With B FLAT A this much acclaimed quartet from Gdańsk have produced their most epic and visceral statement to date. A universe where echoes of Can, Syd Barrett and Fugazi lovingly collide.

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  • Mekons – Exquisite

    Hunkered down and unable to record together, in 2020 the MEKONS created this glorious digital chain letter of an album. A sprawling manifesto of connection and defiance it deftly slides through fiddle tunes, digi-dub, fireside ballads and urgent rock & roll. First time ever on LP.

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  • Bixiga 70 – Bixiga 70

    Glitterbeat Records is very excited to reissue the out-of-print debut album from Brazil’s 10-piece instrumental powerhouse: Bixiga 70. Urgent and uncompromising. An inspired soundworld where Afro-Brazilian traditions and retro and contemporary sonics seamlessly meld together.

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  • Kuunatic – Gate of Klüna

    Kuunatic is a thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych trio bolstered by diverse global sonics and powerful female vocals. Drawing on the members’ different musical and cultural perspectives, their music explores ritual drumming, pulsing bass lines, atmospheric keyboard sounds and Japanese traditional instruments.

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  • Ustad Saami – East Pakistan Sky

    “East Pakistan Sky” is the third album from the now legendary surti master Ustad Saami. The album follows his previously acclaimed recordings – God is Not a Terrorist (2019) and Pakistan is for the Peaceful (2020) – and presents two unedited performances that fully confirm the sublime and immersive experience of Saami’s musical (and spiritual) expression.

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  • Monsieur Doumani – Pissourin

    This much acclaimed Cyprus-based trio return with a thrilling fourth album. The record pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments, multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.

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  • Altın Gün –Âlem

    It is very likely that those who love Yol will also fall for Âlem, another record that showcases Altın Gün’s ability to reshape Turkish folk music through their own unique filter. Âlem and Yol also share the same faith in using electronic sounds as a base and are both mixed and co-produced by Belgian synth duo, Asa Moto.

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  • BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans

    BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground. Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post-apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. Features Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Beastie Boys accomplice Money Mark on the track “Maiga.”

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  • Comorian – We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone

    Sun-baked instrumental meditations played on local string and percussion instruments. Yearning vocals and songs that evoke the mystifying realities of everyday life. Recorded live and outdoors on Grande Comore island by acclaimed producer, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami, Zomba Prison Project).

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  • Samba Touré – Binga

    The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his most personal and immersive album to date. Intimately recorded with a small band, “Binga” dives deep into Samba’s Songhoy roots. Moody Sahelian atmospheres. Cautionary tales. Hopes for better days.

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  • Altın Gün – Yol

    Altın Gün return with a masterful album that widens their critically acclaimed exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic stylings to include dreamy 80’s synth-pop and dancefloor excursions. Yol (Road) brings together all vectors of the Altın Gün experience and delivers their most compelling and individual album to date.

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  • Altin Gün – Ordunun Dereleri

    The Amsterdam band Altin Gün, return with a masterful single – and upcoming album – that widens their critically acclaimed exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic folk to include dreamy 80’s synth-pop and dancefloor excursions. The band are a renowned live act with strings of sold-out shows on three continents, who have always brought muscular grooves and vibrant melodies to their recordings.

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  • Liraz – Zan

    Liraz, the highly touted Israeli-Persian singer, returns with a buoyant and border-busting new album. Shimmering electro-pop meets pulsing dance rhythms and retro Persian sonics. Includes clandestine collaborations with Iran-based musicians and composers. The result is her private revolution, songs with a true message, music to make people dance and smile – and above all, think.

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  • Gaye Su Akyol – Yort Savul: İSYAN MANİFESTOSU!

    Growing up in cosmopolitan Istanbul and listening to Anatolian music icon Selda Bağcan and Kurt Cobain in equal measure, singer/songwriter/producer Gaye Su Akyol’s thrilling combination of Turkish psych and universal rock and roll has in a short span of time made her a force to reckon with on the global music scene.

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  • Lucidvox – We Are

    Firmly established as an influential voice in the burgeoning Russian DIY rock scene, Lucidvox’s incendiary mixture of atmospheric psych-rock, heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery has already gained them both critical attention and audience loyalty outside of their hometown of Moscow. We Are (мы есть) is their first international album release and the next element in their rapid rise. An influential voice in the burgeoning Russian DIY rock scene. Incendiary mix of atmospheric psych-rock, heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.

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  • Ustad Saami – Pakistan Is For The Peaceful

    Following his 2019, critically acclaimed debut, God Is Not a Terrorist, 49-note scale microtonal vocal master Ustad Saami returns with an epic part two. Pakistan is for the Peaceful presents an even more immersive work, comprised of just three extended tracks and again produced 100% live at the master’s rooftop home in Karachi by Grammy-winner, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Zomba Prison Project, The Good Ones) with musical accompaniment provided by Ustad’s four sons.

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  • AMMAR 808 – Global Control / Invisible Invasion

    Ranging from trance temple sounds to rap-like street theatre performance and ending with the mathematical richness of Carnatic music, Ben Youssef’s in situ recordings form the foundation of his potent new album: Global Control / Invisible Invasion. Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives. Expansive electronics fused with on location recordings. Kaleidoscopic and exhilarating.

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  • TootArd – Migrant Birds

    This inventive duo of brothers from the Golan Heights – Hasan and Rami Nakhleh – return with an infectious re-imagining of their sound. Jammed full of pop hooks and quarter-tone melodic lines, “Migrant Birds” unleashes a disco whirlwind that pays homage to the Middle Eastern dancefloor scenes of the 80’s. Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary.

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  • Edikanfo – The Pace Setters

    The first-ever reissue of the classic 1981 debut album from this much revered Ghanaian band. Vibrantly produced by British sound explorer Brian Eno in Accra, Ghana. Highlife meets afro-funk. Spirited and horn driven. Yet another inspired morphing of soundworlds and processes and a significant touchstone for both artists.

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  • fra fra – Funeral Songs

    Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana. Hypnotic kologo excursions. Pulsing percussion. Enraptured voices. Recorded 100% live and outdoors by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami). Sixth release from Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series.

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  • Orkesta Mendoza – Curandero

    Border music without borders. Sergio Mendoza (a longtime member of Calexico) grew up on both sides of the US/Mexican frontier. On the band’s 3rd album, “Curandero,” his musical melding of that experience explodes from the speakers. Boogaloo, cumbia, ranchera & rock’n’roll. Curandero has a close, intimate feel, but this wasn’t a band playing together in a room; all the musicians came in separately to track their parts. 

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  • Tamikrest – Tamotaït

    Tamikrest return with a vivid, irrepressible rock and roll statement. Their most powerful album since 2013’s wildly acclaimed Chatma, Tamotaït finds the band not only turning up the volume, but also sharpening their meditative atmospherics and ruminations on the state of the Sahara and the world beyond. Features acclaimed Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra and a track cut with Japanese traditional musicians.

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  • Lina_Raül Refree

    Fado rewired and recast. Raül Refree – one of Europe’s most innovative producers (Rosalía, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo) – meets Lina, a Portuguese singer renowned for her haunting interpretations of Amalia’s classic repertoire. Analog synths and hushed sonics. Making history by breaking the rules. Lina_Raül Refree is fado for today, a sound that goes beyond geography. It sheds the old skin for the new yet still leaves it as Portugal’s soul, it’s great, beautiful cry of emotion.

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  • Aziza Brahim – Sahari

    Aziza Brahim returns with her 3rd Glitterbeat album. On the front cover of Aziza Brahim’s new album, Sahari, a young girl poses in ballet shoes and a glistening white tutu. It’s a common childhood scene, but it’s tipped upside down. She’s not privileged and the backdrop isn’t a comfortable suburban home. She’s an exile, living nowhere near her homeland, and behind her stand the tents and buildings of a refugee camp. There’s a desert on the ground and a burning sky above. Yet even in this bleakness, she has optimism. She believes in a better future. Aziza’s most adventuresome and sublime work to date.

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  • Bantou Mentale – Bantou Mentale

    A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld. Ecstatic vocals, broken beats, subterranean bass and full-throttle energy. This four-piece group of sonic groundbreakers have delivered a scintillating debut album. The fulfillment of their long-held dream to create an African band with the weight and sensory attack of knife-edged rock and hot-wired club beats. Features ex-members of Konono No.1, Mbongwana Star & Staff Benda Bilili. Produced by Doctor L (Tony Allen, Mbongwana Star).

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  • Los Pirañas – Historia Natural

    A celebrated instrumental supergroup featuring three of Bogotá’s most visionary musicians: Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Chúpame el dedo), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Chúpame el dedo). Fusing the experimental possibilities of South American rhythms and sonics (cumbia, champeta, tropicalia, salsa & more) with avant psych rock, dub minimalism and spiked jazz, Los Pirañas are retro-futurism at its finest.

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  • BaBa ZuLa – Derin Derin

    A thrilling new album from this legendary Istanbul band. BaBa ZuLa are the missing link between Turkish Psych, Krautrock & deep dub. More experimental & expansive than ever. From the 19th century to the ‘60s through to today, art is a continuum and BaBa ZuLa understand that. Derin Derin is its latest incarnation. It’s fearless music. It’s the truth. And there is hope. 

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  • Trupa Trupa – Of The Sun

    Poland’s hotly tipped psych/experimental rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album. Trupa Trupa has grown inordinately in both confidence and execution during the last half-decade. Almost every song on Of The Sun—the magnetic fifth album from the Polish quartet — lands like an anthem, with barbed hooks driven by an italicized rhythm section and a chimera of crisscrossing harmonies.

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  • Bantou Mentale – No Romance EP

    A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld. Ecstatic vocals, broken beats, subterranean bass and full-throttle buzz. Bantou Mentale’s 5- song digital EP “No Romance,” is the four piece group’s scintillating debut. A string of firecrackers exploding on the club floor at midnight. Dubbed out. Fuzzed up. Seething with hardcore spirit and tranced out spirituality.

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  • BaBa ZuLa – Kızıl Gözlüm EP

    BaBa ZuLa, the legendary ensemble from Istanbul, have brilliantly established themselves over the past two decades as the missing link between Turkish Psych, Krautrock and dubwise stylings. The Kızıl Gözlüm EP, the first follow-up to their career spanning retrospective “XX,” finds the band more experimental and expansive than ever.

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  • Altın Gün

    Following their hotly tipped 2018 debut album “On” – Altın Gün returns with an exhilarating second album. “Gece” firmly establishes the band as essential interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy and as a leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock scene. Electric, filled with funk-like grooves and explosive psychedelic textures, what they play – by their own estimation – is folk music.

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  • Ifriqiyya Electrique – Laylet el Booree

    Fusing the rhythms and invocations of the ancient Saharan Banga ritual with an electrical storm of contemporary sonics, Ifriqiyya Electrique’s second album ‘Laylet el Booree’ both grips and awakens. In Tunisian, Banga means “huge volume” and one cannot think of a more apt description of ‘Laylet el Booree’ than that. Maximalist and relentless. Blood, sweat and trance.

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  • Mekons – Deserted

    This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album was recorded in the desert environs of Joshua Tree, California and is drenched with widescreen, barbed-wire atmosphere and hard-earned (but ever amused) defiance. The return of one of the planet’s most essential rock & roll bands.

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  • Kel Assouf – Black Tenere

    On the heels of their acclaimed album Tikounen, Kel Assouf return with an even more transformative collection: Black Tenere. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef, the mastermind behind the highly touted AMMAR 808, the new album strips things back to a power trio lineup and focuses on the crackling, forward-looking energy of Nigerien front man Anana Ag Haroun’s next level Kel Tamashek (Tuareg) rock songs.

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  • Ustad Saami – God Is Not a Terrorist

    The roots of Saami’s music go back over a thousand years – but it’s message is contemporary and universal: “to sing is to listen.” Hypnotic, unvarnished recordings by one of Pakistan’s most revered and iconic classical singers. The album ‘God Is Not a Terrorist’ is produced by GRAMMY Award winner Ian Brennan and is Vol.5 of Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series.

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  • Fofoulah – Daega Rek

    The London based afro-dub ensemble Fofoulah, have followed-up their trailblazing debut album (“Fofoulah”) with an even more shapeshifting and adventurous recording. Creating a soundworld that is both earthy and urban, futurist and rooted – the new album “Daega Rek” (The Truth) is brought into sharp focus by the rhythms and vocals of Gambian sabar drummer Kaw Secka and the vivid production of keyboardist/saxophonist Tom Challenger.

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  • Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir

    Gaye Su Akyol has firmly established herself as one of Turkey’s most compelling young voices and most exhilarating sonic explorers. “Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir,” which translates as “Consistent Fantasy is Reality,” is a deeply poetic album; a vibrant mix of raki laced balladry, futurist surf and post-punk opposition. The sound is widescreen and compelling and the themes dig straight into the heart of our inexplicable contemporary experience.

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  • Bixiga 70 – Quebra Cabeça

    São Paulo’s acclaimed 10-piece instrumental collective return for their 4th album. Urban Afro-Brazilian grooves, empowered horn-driven melodicism and massive dance floor inspiration. One of South America’s most exhilarating musical propositions. The new album captures the incendiary excitement of Bixiga 70 live, but the freedom of the studio brings more shade and subtlety than before.

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  • Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles

    „I am a rebel,“ smiles the 70-year-old Stella Chiweshe. Her album „Kasahwa: Early Singles“ offers a fascinating introduction to the world of Mbira, with the term not only referring to the instrument, consisting of 22 to 28 metal keys mounted on a wooden healing tree body, but also to a musical genre – and on a much wider level, to an entire culture and deeply spiritual lifestyle, very much at the core of the young Zimbabwean nation.

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  • AMMAR 808 – Maghreb United

    Deep TR-808 bass meets pan-Maghreb beats, timeless voices and futurist visions. The deep, rumbling growl of the gumbri, the dry, airy tenderness of the gasba, and the softly slithering zokra give a powerful North African root to the music, a thread that spins back through centuries. It’s the great reinvention of a region’s music. It’s a call to action. It’s the future, right now.

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  • Samba Touré – Wande

    When Malian singer and guitarist Samba Touré was planning Wande (The Beloved), his third Glitterbeat release, he had strong ideas for the way it should sound. But once the sessions were over, he knew he had something entirely different, something even more satisfying: a collection of songs where warmth filled the grooves of every song. An album that seemed like home.

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  • Sonido Gallo Negro – Mambo Cósmico

    Sonido Gallo Negro (Black Rooster Sound) is a combo of nine musicians, seeking out a new and unexpected musical cosmos that goes beyond their well-honed Mexican and Latin American influences. Their navigational charts point towards an additional synchronicity of sound and imagination with the Middle East, the Hispanic old world and Africa, as embedded within the Americas.

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  • Dirtmusic – Bu Bir Ruya

    Dirtmusic return for their fifth album, a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary Murat Ertel from Baba Zula. Ten years in, this singular band with a plural soul have made their finest record yet. Recorded in Istanbul, the album navigates hypnotic rhythms, cinematic atmospheres and dark political realities. Featuring Gaye Su Akyol, Ümit Adakale, Brenna MacCrimmon and Görkem Şen.

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