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Kikagaku Moyo
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Gomugomu
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Kumoyo Island
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Guruguru Brain
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2022
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Kikagaku Moyo were a Japanese psychedelic rock band founded in Tokyo and active from 2012 to 2022. Kikagaku Moyo translates to “geometric patterns”, which the drummer Go Kurosawa suggested as a band name after getting visuals caused by sleep deprivation during a long jam session at night. - wiki
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Vaqo
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Gogov Go Kartlis Deda
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Guguni Oda
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GMI
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The album Guguni Oda is a compelling exploration of musical fusion, blending the ancient soul of Georgian folklore with the gritty, expressive energy of alternative rock and blues. It stands as a testament to the creative vision of Vakhtang Kantaria, who served as the sole architect behind its intricate soundscapes. - press release
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Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
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Cool Hand
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Yarın Yoksa
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Big Crown Records
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2025
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GIG / GIVEAWAY: Saturday June 20th @ National Sawdust, Brooklyn, presented by World Music Institute. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek are internationally recognized for their unique and infectious sound that combines Anatolian folk with psychedelia, pop and soul influences. They have released two albums and one EP since their start in 2014 and have been touring extensively throughout Europe. - world music institute
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Sosyete '25
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Sevgi
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Yaygara
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Tru Thoughts
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Sosyete '25 are a trio composed of songwriter and vocalist Merve Erdem (Kit Sebastian / Brainfeeder), guitarist and producer Glenn Fallows (Globeflower Masters/Mr Bongo) and producer and composer Paul Elliott - who previously released the acclaimed Call Sender project on Tru Thoughts. - bandcamp
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Ana Lua Caiano
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Uma Vida A Menos
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Single
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Thanks to listener Sarah K. for recommending this artist and track. A singer-songwriter and producer, Ana Lua Caiano is considered a one-woman band that explores the traditional elements of Portuguese music with a modern approach, incorporating electronic music and hip-hop. - primavera
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Ethnos Atramo
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Paganos Del Klezmer
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Antología Imaginaria
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Segell Microscopi
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In early 2007 Pepa G. Lillo and Gabriel Navalón decided to combine efforts and shape a musical project based on the mixture of synthetic sounds and avant-garde electronic sequences with timbres and rhythms from universal popular tradition. The result implies the review and enjoyment from a modern perspective of tunes chosen from rich heritage of past generations and the development of creative spirit of Ethnos Atramo. - womex
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The Klezmatics
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Payklers Tants (Drummer's Dance)
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We Were Made For These Times
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Asphalt Tango
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GIG: Crown Hill Theatre, Brooklyn (Presented by Murmrr) Saturday, June 20th. “We Were Made For These Times” is a 40th-anniversary statement from The Klezmatics, the only Grammy-winning klezmer band, answering a fractured world with music of protest, faith, joy, and radical solidarity. Rooted in immigrant experience and shared memory, the album speaks outward across cultures and generations, insisting on dignity, connection, and collective resilience. - press release
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Yiddish Glory
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Obodivke Camp
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The Silenced Songs of World War II
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Six Degrees Records
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Yiddish Glory tells the remarkable story of folklorists in the Soviet Union who risked their lives collecting songs from Jewish Red Army soldiers, Jewish refugees, victims and survivors of Ukrainian ghettos, as told by a band of virtuoso musicians. - bandcamp
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Evaggelos Sofroniou
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Ballos Ousak Manes
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Various Artists: Aman Aman - Greek-Anatolian Laments
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Mississippi Records
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Evaggelos Sofroniou (1885–1942) was an influential Greek vocalist and early composer of Smyrneika and Rembetika music. Born in Asia Minor, he was a foundational figure in the Greek urban music scene, heavily contributing to the genre's formative years from the late 1920s to the 1930s. His work remains celebrated for keeping the traditional Anatolian and early rebetiko style alive. - wiki
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Julián Muro
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Ay (feat. Bergamot Quartet, Ethan Cohn)
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Apfus, Vol. 1
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Segell Microscopi
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Described by musicologist Esteban Buch as one of the most promising Argentine musicians of his generation, Julián Muro presents "APFUS, VOL. 1", a highly ambitious recording project co-produced alongside legendary trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas. "APFUS, VOL. 1" inhabits a unique sonic territory where contemporary chamber music, improvisation, and South American roots converge. - press release
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Sofía Rei
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Si Una Cae...
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Antónima
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GroundUP Music
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Antónima is the latest album from Grammy-nominated vocalist, composer, and producer Sofía Rei, released April 3, 2026 on GroundUP Music. Rooted in “folk futurism,” it explores the meeting point between Latin American traditions and forward-looking sonic innovation. Deeply personal yet expansive, Antónima blends alternative pop with folk, jazz, and electronic textures, creating a vibrant sonic world. - press release
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Tamikrest
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Tapsakin
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Assikel
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Glitterbeat
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The iconic Saharan rock band’s sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence. - press release
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Nana Osei Twum Barium
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Akwalaba
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Journey to the Unknown
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Zephyrus
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Nana Osei Twum Barima is a masterful musician, singer, percussionist and dancer, deeply rooted in the rich musical traditions of Ghana. Born into a family of musicians, he inherited the rhythmic spirit of his ancestors and found his voice through the seperewa, the Ghanaian harp-lute. Now based in Ghent, Belgium, Nana Osei draws from Kundum, Akom, Palmwine and Nwomkro, weaving hypnotic rhythms and storytelling into his compositions. - label
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Basya Schechter
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Interview
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Pharaoh's Daughter
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Better Than Wine
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Songs of Desire
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Tzadik
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Pharaoh's Daughter
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Lebanon
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Songs of Desire
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Tzadik
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Pharaoh's Daughter
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Sameach
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Songs of Desire
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Tzadik
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Basya Schechter and Brian Marsella
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De Noche
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Live on WFMU
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Basya Schechter and Brian Marsella
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Yonati
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Live on WFMU
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Basya Schechter and Brian Marsella
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Kumi Lach
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Live on WFMU
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Basya Schechter and Brian Marsella
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Asleep
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Live on WFMU
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Gitkin
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Git Git
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Where the South Winds Wail
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Wonderwheel
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The story of Gitkin's new album begins on the wind in New Orleans, where half-heard melodies drifted in like ghosts. Less a collection of songs than a séance with an unknown past. Surf twang, blues exotica, and psychedelic cumbia intertwine, all steeped in the city's humid mysticism. - press release
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Mexican Institute of Sound & Meridian Brothers
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Cumbia del Lobo
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Ruido Tovar
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Ansonia Records
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GIG: Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center Thursday July 30th (Free). Meridian Brothers and Mexican Institute of Sound present Ruido Tovar, a collaborative album that explores a transformative period in Mexican tropical music, approximately from 1972 to 1982, when the introduction of synthesizers fundamentally redefined rhythm and groove. - mitu
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Sonido Gallo Negro
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Fantasmagoría (Rebajada)
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Paganismo (Deluxe)
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T-Vox
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2023
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GIG: Thursday June 18th @ National Sawdust, Brooklyn. Sonido Gallo Negro is a leading act on the Mexican music scene, active for over 16 years, reinterpreting the roots of psychedelic tropical music through an immersive sonic and visual experience. Guitars, eccentric organs, analog synthesizers and theremin shape a lysergic sound, enhanced by hypnotic live visuals created by Dr. Alderete. - boaviagem
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Yeison Landero
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Santa Lucia
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Single
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Names You Can Trust
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GIG: globalFEST: DakhaBrakha + Yeison Landero + Sally Baby's Silver Dollars @ Prospect Park Bandshell, Friday August 7th, 5:30. Yeison Landero was born in San Jacinto (Bolívar); that is to say, in the very heart of the mountains of María of our Colombian Caribbean. He carries in his soul a cumbiambero heart inherited from his grandfather Andrés Landero: a musician recognized as the king of cumbia nationally and internationally. - la phil
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Trèvol
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Es Caulets
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Folk d'Extraradi
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Segell Microscopi
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Trèvol’s new album is born where the city begins to fray: among wastelands, industrial estates, apartment blocks and half-paved streets. In the neighbourhoods where languages, accents, traditions and diverse memories coexist. Where every satellite dish points towards another part of the world, but also towards a unique way of inhabiting the present. - press release
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Los Gavilanes de la Costa
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Dame Café
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Dame Café
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Munster
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2025
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Dame Café, originally released on Discos Fuentes in 1965 to meet the tropical music demand of the time, features a mix of traditional rhythms like vallenato and cumbia, alongside more experimental beats. Los Gavilanes de la Costa, the band behind this album, had a brief existence but left a lasting impact, especially in Mexico's sonidero scene. - forced exposure
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Los Diablos Rojos
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El Guapo
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Various Artists: Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
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Barbès
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The Peruvian cumbia band Los Diablos Rojos was born within the quincha and adobe walls of Cañete Chico with a proposal very different from what all the musicians of the time were working on: an instrumental tropical music style of their own. With thirty studio albums and gold records to their credit, there are three important reasons that have contributed to the longevity of Los Diablos Rojos over time: discipline, fidelity to originality, and perseverance on the road. - discosfantastico
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Combo Chimbita
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Dímelo
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Single
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Wonderwheel
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2025
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GIG: Wednesday June 17th @ Elsewhere Rooftop, Brooklyn. Described by NPR’s Alt.Latino as an "otherworldly presence,” Combo Chimbita is the creative unity of Carolina Oliveros (vocals, guacharaca), Niño Lento es Fuego (guitar), Prince of Queens (bass, synthesizers) and Dilemastronauta (drums), who together transcend common concepts of time and nationality. - venue
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Colin Steele
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Benromach
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Birnam
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Music bed for concert announcements.
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Red Baraat
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Crown of Spades
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Bhangra Rangeela
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Sinj Records
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2025
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GIG: Every Sunday in June @ Barbès, Park Slope, 10 pm. You’ve seen them jam with Ed Sheeran in the Netflix show “One Shot” and heard them on the song “Ai Miei Amici” with Italian Superstar, Jovanotti. The band’s 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Concert is touted as the #8 top performance of all time by New York Magazine and their 2025 album, Bhangra Rangeela (Sinj Records), confirms they are one of most vital bands out there. - home page
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Msindaba Jazz Band
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Msindaba
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Msindaba Jazz Band
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Imetoka Collective
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Msindaba Jazz Band is a six-piece ensemble from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, dedicated to preserving and evolving the brass band-inspired celebratory music of the Swahili coast. Through masterful call-and-response drumming, brass, and percussion, the band creates immersive, audience-responsive performances that honor the spontaneous spirit of Tanzanian communal gatherings. - press release
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INA Stars Orchestra feat. Wassa Coulibaly, with musicians from Jackson State University School of Music
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INA Denw
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INA Denw
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Remote Records / Studio Mali
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The first studio album by the INA Stars Orchestra, the student ensemble of Mali's Institut National des Arts (INA) in Bamako. Eight compositions by Abdrahamane Keita, recorded on kora, kamele n'goni, djeli n'goni, and balafon with voices in Bambara, Songhai, and Khassonké — answered an ocean away by students and faculty of Jackson State University, Mississippi, with brass, strings, gospel, and blues. - press release
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Fatoumata Diawara
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Djanné
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Massa
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No Format!
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Grammy nominated Malian singer-guitarist joins forces with French superstar producer -M- on new album that continues her mission to bring Malian roots music to global audiences channeling a pop aesthetic and in doing so explores themes around motherhood, faith, memory and resilience. - press release
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