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Boogarins
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Avalanche
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Manual, ou Guia Livre de Dissolução dos Sonhos
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Other Music Recording Co.
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2015
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GIG: Sunday May 3 @ the Sultan Room, marking the 10th anniversary of their acclaimed second album Manual, ou Guia Livre de Dissolução dos Sonhos. Nominated for a Latin Grammy Award and regarded as a defining release of their generation, the album helped establish the band as one of Brazil’s most important contemporary rock acts. - venue site
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Tinariwen
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Dounia Tau Ray
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Hoggar
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Wedge
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Lyrically, Hoggar addresses urgent and contemporary themes, echoing the social and political challenges facing the Tuareg people and northern Mali. Tinariwen thus perpetuates their long tradition of bearing witness through music, finding a balance between the joy of their celebrated concerts and reflections on community struggles, resilience, and cultural preservation. - press release
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Tamikrest
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Imanin
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Assikel
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Glitterbeat
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Advance single - album is released May 15. 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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Tarwa N-Tiniri
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Hazad Izri
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Zaman
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Atty
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ZAMAN, the third album by Tarwa N-Tiniri, is a tribute to the cultural heritage and storytelling traditions of the Draa Valley and the wider southeast of Morocco. Drawing from the region’s deep Amazigh roots, the album explores themes of memory, identity, resilience, and the timeless bond between people and land. - press release
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Batma Wa Larfag
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Al Ghaba
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Ila An Yushib al Ghurab
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Boussiphone
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1976
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From the Arab Tunes blog. From the blog: Many groups were born following the wave of renewal of the Moroccan music scene during the 1970s. As has been written several times, the pioneers of this musical movement were groups such as Nass el Ghiwane, Lemchaheb and Jil Jilala and the generation inspired by their works is called Ghiwani Generation.
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Imal Gnawa
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Ben Hssaine
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Twilight Prophecy
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We Be Friends
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Imal Gnawa stands at the intersection of traditions rooted in the deep spiritual and rhythmic legacy of Moroccan Gnawa music and bold futurism. Combining tribal acoustic elements with futuristic aesthetics, the group creates a soundscape that is as timeless as it is avant- garde. - home page
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Son Rompe Pera
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Cumbia is the New Punk
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Chimborazo
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AYA Records
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GIG: Fri May 8 @ Brooklyn Bowl. Son Rompe Pera is a Mexican fusion band based in Naucalpan, a suburb of Mexico City. Primarily playing cumbia, they integrate the use of Mexican marimba music that is traditional in the folklore of their country and such other genres as danzón, rock, ska and others. - wiki
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Dotorado Pro
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African Scream (Marimbas)
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Various Artists: Enchufada: A Lisbon Club Story
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Enchufada
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When he was just 16 years old, Angolan producer Dotorado Pro impressed with the song “African Scream”. It is this release that propels him to the front of the stage, participating in the definition of the sound of Lisbon that resonates to this day both on the street, on the phones of young Portuguese people and on dance floors around the world. - youtube
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Mah Damba
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Anga Bara
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Tabolo Koura
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One World Records
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Mah Damba returns with Tabolo Koura, a ten-track statement of authority from one of
Mali’s defining voices — four decades into a career that has never wavered from its source. - press release
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Cheick Tidiane Seck
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Kobénatouma
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Sabaly
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Universal Music France
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2008
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GIG: Will Calhoun's Mali Project @ The Sultan Room (WMI) Friday, May 15 featuring Cheick Tidiane Seck. Cheick Tidiane Seck is a Malian musician, arranger and composer. He has written for and played with African artists including Fela Kuti, Mory Kanté, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour and for jazz bands. He has also collaborated with musicians Damon Albarn and Mamadou Diabate. - wiki
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Neba Solo & Benego Diakité
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Yeredon Bali
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A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking
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Etoile Audio / Nonesuch
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Malian balafon player Neba Solo and donso n’goni player Benego Diakité’s album A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking—the first in a series of new releases in collaboration with longtime Nonesuch partner Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records—is out now. - label site
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Various Artists: João Bosco
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O Ronco da Cuica
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Música de Futebol
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Mr. Bongo
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GIG: Sun through Fri two shows nightly at Birdland to celebrate his 80th birthday. A Latin GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, João Bosco is one of the heroes of Música Popular Brasileira, discovered by Vinicius de Moraes and championed early in his career by Antônio Carlos Jobim - mccarter thea
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Interview
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No Album
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No Label
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Musicawi Silt
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Live on WFMU
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No Label
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Interview
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No Album
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Girma
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Live on WFMU
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No Label
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Ewedesh Neber
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Live on WFMU
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No Label
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter)
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Tizita
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Live on WFMU
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No Label
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K8A (Kaethe Hostetter
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Reggae Kamisse
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Live on WFMU
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No Label
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Aida Nadeem
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Ummara
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Arabtronica
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No Label
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2002
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Aida Nadeem’s music is the sound of deep cultural roots, creative daring and free expression, full of the bittersweet ache of exile and the fierce creativity of a maverick artistic spirit. Born in Iraq, exiled to Denmark, steeped in the avant-garde and the raw, beautiful sound of her Arabic roots, she is an extraordinary singer, dancer and wordsmith, a beacon of independence and integrity in a world of homogenised commercialism. - arabtunes blog
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Cheb Bakr
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Samh Amea'ad
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Samh Amea'ad (Single)
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Habibi Funk
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From Libya. Recorded in the early 2000s, Bakr's music fuses the pulse of Libyan pop with R&B and hip-hop influences, bringing the energy of Benghazi to the dance floors of New York in the early 2000s. - jazzmanrecords
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Fatimah Razak
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Dahaga
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Various Artists: Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)
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Soundway
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Singer from Malaysia, track originally released in 1974. Ayo Ke Disco means ‘Let’s go to the disco’ in Indonesian.
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Charlie Chimi
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Celular (Original)
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Disco Chimi
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Club Coco
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Advance single - album releases May 15. Dominican-raised Cuban artist Charlie Chimi presents Disco Chimi, a proudly left-field debut album. Sung entirely in Spanish and mixing merengue, dembow, rock, Afro-disco, and Caribbean folklore, it channels a New York no-wave garage energy that sits alongside deep Afro-Cuban heritage. - press release
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Chia's Dance Party
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ChiriChia
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La Miel
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Chiamusic
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GIGs: Tonight at 10 and Sat May 23 at 10 @ Barbes. CHIA’s Dance Party is a New York City-based Quintet. The band delivers a unique musical experience where infectious danceable grooves mix harmoniously with extensive compositional and improvisational work. The band performs original material inspired by the Colombian rhythmic and melodic traditions, yet explores different genres and compositional approaches. - home page
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Cain Culto
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¡Basta Ya! (feat. Xiuhtezcatl) Snow Tha Product Remix
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Single
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Hive Music
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Independent Latine firebrand Snow Tha Product joins a rework of “¡BASTA YA!” (“Enough Already”) by Cain Culto and Xiuhtezcatl. Revisiting last year’s head-spinning protest anthem with a sharpened focus on ICE raids and government deportations, Culto and Xiuhtezcatl also return with new verses, leaving no room for ambiguity in their message. - press release
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Omar Souleyman
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Tawwalt El Gheba (feat. Gilles Peterson)
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Bahdeni Nami
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Monkeytown Records
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2015
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Omar Almasikh (Arabic: عمر المسيخ; born 1966[, better known by his stage name Omar Souleyman (عمر سليمان), is a Syrian singer. He began his career in 1994 singing at weddings and has since released numerous records and performed all over the world. He produces a modernized version of the traditional dabke. - wiki
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Vasilis Kostas
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Before America
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Lena
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Artsyndesis
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(Music bed behind concert announcements.) Vasilis Kostas is a Grammy-nominated laouto player, composer, and educator from Epirus, Greece, widely known for reintroducing the laouto as a melodic instrument in both traditional and contemporary musical contexts. - home page
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Parisa Karimi Molan and Tehrani Drom
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Agrabeh
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Unveiled
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Lulaworld Records
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“Unveiled” is the new release by Iranian singer, Parisa Karimi Molan, who studied singing in secret for 20 years in Tehran, risking arrest for doing so, with women who were legends in Iran before the 1979 Revolution. She moved to Montreal in 2017 and just finished her debut album. - press release
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Orchestra Popolare di Via Leuca
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De notte _ Trainieri
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Caminamenti
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UASC! and Kurumuny Edizioni
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Orchestra Popolare di Via Leuca is a multiethnic orchestra founded in 2014 as part of the urban regeneration project in the multicultural neighborhood of the same name in Lecce, where it held its first concert in July 2014. Over the years, the ensemble has expanded its roster and today includes 14 musicians and dancers. This is their first album. - press release
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Canzoniere Grecanicio Salentino
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Beddhu Stanotte
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Il Mito
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Ponderosa Music Records Srl
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Il Mito (literally “The Myth”) brings together eleven landmark songs from across five
decades of CGS history, newly arranged and recorded by the current line-up — the
ensemble that has brought pizzica onto the global stage over the last twenty years. - press release
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