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.
TRUPA TRUPA
Poland's otly tipped psych/experimental rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
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.
ŠIROM
A deep, resonant soundworld.
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.
PARK JIHA
Inventive, elegant and transcendent.
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.
KING AYISOBA
Ghanaian legend creates a raw, emphatic sound that fuses kologo music with contemporary sonics.
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.
