Rita Payés presenta su tercer álbum, “De Camino al Camino”, una obra que se su- merge en la búsqueda de la belleza en las co- sas cotidianas. Un testimonio de las raíces que nos conectan con nuestro origen y nos enlazan para seguir avanzando, una variada amalgama de estilos e influencias bajo un único hilo conductor: un camino.

Con una propuesta artística consolidada, y respaldada por reconocidos talentos, ex- tendemos una cordial invitación para que, a paso de hormiguita, nos acompañen a lo lar- go de este viaje musical donde la emoción, la maestría y la conexión con las raíces, con- vergen de manera magistral.

Booking territory: Europe

La voz de oro de África, el monumento de la música mandinga, conocido por sus éxitos internacionales y su lucha por la integración de los albinos, Salif Keïta, regresa en 2025 con una gira sin precedentes con una formación íntima e inédita de cuarteto acústico. Un proyecto desnudo que realza la majestuosa voz del artista de Mali, un disco auténtico que pretende transportar al directo la experiencia de cercanía y ceremonia con la música de Salif.

Grabado en unos días en una habitación de hotel en Japón durante su visita al festival internacional de fotografía “Kyotophonie” en la primavera de 2023. Se publicará a principios de 2025 en el elegante y prestigioso sello Nø Førmat! ( Oumou Sangaré, Ballaké Sissoko, Piers Faccini, Chilly González…)

Booking territory: Spain

El papel de Martha Wainwright como artista siempre ha sido el abrazar su salvajismo y esbozar la profundidad de las emociones con crudeza. Esto es lo que hace que Wainwright sea una intérprete única y que continue atrayendo a una audiencia dos décadas después. Empezar de nuevo no significa empezar de nuevo. Este proceso de renacimiento honra el pasado para seguir adelante. Love Will Be Reborn captura el corazón de Wainwright en transición. En un esfuerzo por salir del dolor más profundo, como dice ella como un ave fénix alzándose de las cenizas de un crepúsculo existencial, Wainwright es testigo de lo que ha soportado su corazón una vez más para encontrar de nuevo la alegría.

Booking territory: Spain

Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré returns in 2022 with her highly anticipated brand new studio album, due for release on World Circuit/BMG in April.

She has a new label and a new show with a superb band and will be presenting on stages all around the world from May - Summer and Fall 2022.

Oumou Sangaré is widely considered to be Africa’s most dynamic female voice. Her music is ebullient and thrilling, with powerful and groundbreaking messages about women’s rights, tradition and poverty .

In 2019, 'Diaraby Nene' was sampled by Beyoncé for 'Mood 4 Eva', featuring Jay-Z and Childish Gambino, for her Black Is King project.

Booking territory: Worldwide

Nacida en Araraquara, en el interior de São Paulo, la cantante y compositora Liniker coquetea con el arte desde pequeña. Veía a su madre y a sus tíos en ruedas de samba rock, algo que se convirtió en una semilla que germinaría en ella más adelante.

Liniker se hizo conocida al lanzar el EP "Cru" (2015), bajo el nombre de Liniker e os Caramelows. Desde entonces, ha recorrido el país y el mundo con giras. En 2021, la cantante lanzó su primer álbum en solitario, Indigo Borboleta Anil. El álbum recibió tres nominaciones al Grammy Latino 2022 y ganó el premio a "Mejor Álbum de Música Popular Brasileña", lo que convirtió a Liniker en la primera artista transgénero en ganar un Grammy Latino.

Swedish singer/songwriter Jäje Johanson, who goes by the stage name Jay-Jay Johanson, infuses the measured, slow-burn aesthetics of downbeat and trip-hop with the metallic pulse of electro-pop, resulting in his own signature brand of film noir-imbued electronic melancholy. Born and raised in the city of Trollhättan.

Booking territory: Spain

Benjamin Sainte-Clementine is a charismatic singer-poet, pianist, composer and affecting performer. He hails from London, Edmonton Green, but started his artistic career whilst traveling in Paris, 2009, aged just 19. He has also been highly praised for his distinctive tenor vocals.

"I am an expressionist; I sing what I say, I say what I feel and i feel what I play by honesty and none other but honesty. Some will get bored of me, but I invite the patient listener to come forth, feel and most importantly engage with me without asking too many questions. Hopefully by the end of listening they shall get answers not questionable, whether pleasing or not."

Booking Territory: Spain

ANA LUA CAIANO une tradición con innovación. La artista lusa explora la fusión musical combinando tradición portuguesa con electrónica, sonidos del pasado unidos a sintetizadores, cajas de ritmo y samplers . Su música viste la herencia tradicional portuguesa con mundo moderno. Considerada como “Artista revelación más prometedora” con sus dos EP “Cheguei Tarde a Ontem” y “Se dançar é só depois”, presentados en vivo en varios escenarios nacionales e internacionales, Ana Lua Caiano está ahora de gira con su esperado álbum debut. , tras estar en algunos de los festivales showcase más importantes, como WOMEX (2022), BIME Bilbao, MIL Lisboa, FIRA B!, MUM, Live Europe, Les Trans Musicales, entre otros. En 2024 Ana está nominada a los "Music Moves Europe Awards" y ha formado parte como una de las artistas más destacadas.del Eurosonic ESNS 2024.

Su próximo disco será publicado en marzo de 2024 por el sello Glitterbeat.

Booking Territory: Spain

Cuando Raül recibió un correo de Maria Mazzotta para trabajar juntos, tuvo que rechazar la propuesta debido a su apretada agenda, pero quedó enamorado de su voz. Pasaron algunos años y, en un viaje a Puglia en abril de 2022, aprovecharon la oportunidad para conocerse y tocar juntos. En ese encuentro, Maria le contó la historia de la pizzica taranta : a las mujeres que sufrían depresión se les decía que habían sido mordidas por una tarántula, y el único antídoto para superar la tristeza que las poseía era entrar en trance al ritmo de la pizzica, bailando, cantando y gritando de una manera que, en la sociedad, no estaba permitida.

Cuando el Festival Clássics, celebrado en Barcelona, encargó a Raül componer una pieza sobre la metamorfosis, inmediatamente pensó en rescatar el repertorio que Maria le había enseñado en Puglia y reinterpretarlo para mostrar cómo la música puede ser un antídoto para las penas.

Booking territory: Spain

The iconic voice of Luzmila Carpio rings out from the Andes, spreading messages of indigenous struggle, female empowerment and unceasing love for both the people and planet around us. An undeniable icon of Bolivian Andean culture whose career spans multiple decades, Luzmila has released more than 25 albums (there’s a reason that Rolling Stone described her as”one of the most prolific indigenous singers of South America”), inspiring millions while singing in both her native Aymara-Quechua language and Spanish.

By fearlessly blending tradition with innovation and using her music as a means of social commentary, Carpio represents more than ever the avant-garde spirit within the indigenous music scene, pushing boundaries and breaking new grounds.

On her new album 'Inti Watana- El Retorno del Sol’ (September 23 ZZK Records) she’s teamed up with Argentinian producer Leonardo Martinelli (a.k.a. Tremor). Here she tackles humankind's most pressing threat with a childlike ingenuousness as charming as it is immersive, as fluttering charango strings and clattering hand-percussion weave off-kilter patterns, combining with deep, fuzzy bass to create a new surprisingly modern-sounding groove. The album received critical acclaim and was listed #10 in the top 50 on Rolling Stone's best Spanish Language Albums of 2023, describing her as one of the 3 LivingLatin American Music Legends. The album is accompanied by a full length documentary with a world premiere in 2024.

“One of the most important indigenous singers to emerge out of South America over the last 50 years. ” – DAZED.

“A perfectly balanced and endlessly intriguing set” – ★★★★★ SONGLINES.

“Cascading percussion and atmospheric synths frame gorgeous lullabies for Mother Earth and cinematic birdsong duets performed in Spanish and indigenous Quechua.” – ROLLING STONE.

Booking Territory: Europe

Combinando sonidos tradicionales griegos con sus influencias pop y urbanas, la cantante y compositora griega Marina Satti celebra a través de su música el multiculturalismo que corre por sus venas. Criada en Heraklion, Grecia, de madre cretense y padre sudanés, Marina Satti creció para abrazar plenamente sus raíces y herencia y revolucionar los códigos de la música moderna. Tras conseguir una beca para estudiar en el Berklee College of Music (EE.UU.), Marina fundó fonέs, un grupo polifónico femenino, así como CHÓRES, un coro de 200 mujeres con el que promociona las canciones tradicionales griegas en el panorama internacional. Al colocar los coros en el centro de su trabajo y celebrar las mezclas poéticas, Marina Satti creó un enfoque artístico auténtico. Fue en 2017 que el gran público la descubrió con el tema «Mantissa», que significa «adivina» y que ha conseguido más de 50 millones de visitas en Youtube. Desde entonces, Marina Satti ha experimentado un ascenso meteórico y continúa estableciendo su reputación más allá de las fronteras griegas con retransmisiones en COLORS, KEXP, NOWNESS, SOCIETY o NPR, y actuaciones en más de 20 países de todo el mundo. En su primer álbum YENNA, lanzado en 2022, la artista evoluciona entre influencias griegas y balcánicas, realzadas por ritmos de hip-hop y arreglos electrónicos; una mezcla única que la sitúa a la vanguardia de la escena pop mundial.

Acaba de publicar su nuevo disco P.O.P. una mezcla y anunciar gira internacional. 

Booking: España

El grupo mexicano Son Rompe Pera se ha hecho famoso por trasladar el sonido folclórico de la marimba tradicional –un instrumento de percusión de origen africano, muy popular en Chiapas y Tabasco, con el que se interpreta sones y canciones típicas– al terreno del punk. Debutaron con “Batuco” (2020), un álbum influenciado por su padre, un músico callejero junto al que aprendieron el oficio en su natal Naucalpan de Juárez. Así, el contenido son versiones de sus canciones favoritas y el título hace referencia al mote con el que era conocido José Dolores Gama Melchor. Fallecido el progenitor, decidieron honrar a la madre, Esperanza Pera, con el nombre del grupo. Es hora ya de decir que el quinteto está liderado por tres hermanos Gama: Jesús Ángel “Kacho” y Alan “Mongo” a las marimbas y Alfredo de Jesús “Murfy” a las percusiones. Completan el grupo Ricardo “Ritchie” López a la batería y Raúl Albarrán al bajo.

Su nuevo trabajo, “Chimborazo”, grabado en Bogotá bajo la supervisión de Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatrópica, Los Pirañas) que les ha ayudado a dar un firme paso adelante con un repertorio ya propio y a la vez sumamente colaborativo en el que, como dice la letra de “Cumbia pa tu madre”, “como la cordillera de los Andes, la cumbia es la reina sin fronteras”, que es lo mismo que decir que la cumbia se ha convertido en la lingua franca del baile latinoamericano y que Son Rompe Pera saben hablar con fluidez todos sus dialectos. Para dejarlo claro, en la inicial “Selva negra” conectan con el lado psicodélico de la cumbia peruana añadiendo unas guitarras bien chicheras.

*Texto de Ramon Súrio para Rockdelux

Booking Territory: Spain

Luísa Sobral abre las puertas al pop solar de DanSando, su sexto álbum de originales. Producida por el ganador de un Grammy Latino, Tó Brandileone, la nueva aventura discográfica de Luísa es un trabajo íntimo y personal, pero también socialmente consciente e implicado, que reúne canciones más luminosas y en las que el amor es la materia prima. Un álbum que la autora reconoce “quería hacer desde hace mucho tiempo: una oda a la vida”.

Destaca su faceta como compositora, componiendo para artistas como Ana Moura, António Zambujo, Gisela João, Sara Correia, Mayra Andrade, entre muchos otros. En 2017 firmó Amar Pelos Dois, canción interpretada por su hermano Salvador Sobral y ganadoradel Festival de Eurovisión.

Desde su debut, Luísa Sobral ha colaborado con artistas y productores de renombre, como Jamie Cullum y Mário Laginha, invitados al segundo álbum de Luísa (There’s a Flower in My Bedroom, 2013), Joe Henry, que produjo el álbum homónimo de la artista en el 2016 después de haber trabajado ya con Madonna y Elvis Costello. Dos años después trabaja Raúl Refree, el productor de músicos como Rosalía, Sílvia Pérez Cruz y Rocío Márquez en el disco Rosa (2018), y con la cantante Zahara, con quien editó, en 2020, el single Todo Lo Que No Está. En el concierto de DanSando, Luísa estará acompañada en el escenario por Manuel Rocha a la guitarra, António Quintino al bajo y contrabajo y Carlos Miguel Antunes a la batería.

Booking territory: España

Tras la introspección de "Salt Mortal", su aclamado primer álbum en solitario, Pol Batlle regresa con "A Caballo Voy", un EP que marca un nuevo capítulo en su viaje musical. Este trabajo, que ve la luz tras años de gestación y en medio de la preparación de un nuevo álbum aún envuelto en misterio, confirma la incesante búsqueda creativa de este "trovador impenitente".

"A Caballo Voy" se presenta como un puente sonoro entre "Ljubliana & the Seawolf" y el nuevo proyecto de Pol Batlle, un EP más eléctrico, con canciones que se alejan del folk tradicional para explorar territorios cercanos al pop y al rockamericano, evocando reminiscencias de bandas como Alabama Shakes.

Este lanzamiento llega tras hitos importantes en la carrera dePol, como su participación en Colors Show y su aparición en el Tiny Desk. Además, este trabajo viene precedido de notables colaboraciones con artistas de la talla de Maro, Salvador Sobral, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Xarim Aresté y Lucía Fumero, consolidando a Pol Batlle como un artista en constante diálogo con su entorno musical.

Booking Territory: Spain

PUERTO CANDELARIA (Ganador de Latin Grammy 2019 Mejor Álbum Cumbia, nominado en 2022 a Mejor Álbum de Música Latina para Niños y Ganador de 6 Premios India Catalina con su serie de tv “La Sinfonía de los Bichos Raros” en 2023) es una gran explosión sonora colombiana que ha traspasado las fronteras, ha inventado sus esquemas y ha trazado un camino por el que no sólo transita la música: el teatro, la danza, el cine y el humor, hacen parte de las exploraciones con las que la agrupación ha expresado el absurdo, la magia y la diversidad de Colombia.

Amor y Deudas”, “Cumbia Rebelde”, “Senderito de Amor”, “Yo Me Llamo Cumbia” y “Amor Fingido” son sólo algunos de los éxitos contenidos en sus 11 álbumes, además de colaboraciones con artistas como Fanfarre Ciocarlia, Andrea Echeverri, Systema Solar, Herencia de Timbiquí, Rap Bang Club, JuanaFe, Esteman, Sofía Viola y Monsieur Periné.

Versátiles hasta el infinito, su propuesta ha sido objeto de estudio en instituciones tan prestigiosas como el Berklee College of Music, El Conservatorio de Música de Rotterdam y el de Beijing, donde han sido invitados a exponer y compartir sus experimentaciones musicales. Tras años de incansable trabajo en la escena musical independiente bajo su propio sello, Merlín Producciones, Puerto Candelaria es hoy una notable influencia en las nuevas generaciones musicales y un referente de modelo exitoso en la industria.

Booking territory : Spain

CÔTE D'IVOIRE SUPERSTAR DOBET GNAHORÉ’S ELECTRIFYING
NEW ALBUM COULEUR OFFERS AN UPLIFTING MESSAGE.
Recorded in Africa during the pandemic, Couleur celebrates local talent, women’s rights, creativity and positivity in spite of challenging times.Gnahoré’s sixth full-length album was released on June 4th, 2021 by Cumbancha.

Dobet Gnahoré, an African superstar and 2010 GRAMMY winner, is well-known for her jaw-dropping dance moves, powerful stage presence and richly emotional vocal style. With her new album Couleur, Gnahoré breaks with her past acoustic styles and delves into her country’s modern Afropop sounds. The album marks Gnahoré’s welcome return to the Cumbancha label, who put out
her album Na Afriki way back in 2007.

Booking Territory: World except GAS

Daniela Pes es una músico y cantautora sarda nacida en el corazón de Gallura en 1992.

Su voz y su música escapan a clasificaciones predeterminadas. Daniela Pes está inmersa en un fluir de la música, como cantante, como instrumentista, como música electrónico. El suyo es un talento multifacético. El 14 de abril de 2023 lanzó su primer álbum, SPIRA, producido por Iosonouncane. Este trabajo la ha comprometido durante los últimos tres años y será una síntesis de las muchas vidas musicales de Daniela. De hecho, llega a su debut con un currículum impresionante que incluye una licenciatura en Canto Jazz por el Conservatorio de Sassari y una beca para los Seminarios de Verano de Jazz Nuoro dirigidos por Paolo Fresu, lo que la llevó a actuar en Time in Jazz y en el Harp Festival de Río de Janeiro. Completan este reconocimento a su música el prestigioso Premio Andrea Parodi en 2017 (donde ganó el premio de la crítica, el jurado internacional, la mejor música y el mejor arreglo) y el Premio a la Mejor Música y el Premio Nuovoimaie en Musicultura en 2018. Su álbum debut, Spira, gana la Targa Tenco. 2023 como Mejor Primera Obra.

Booking Territory: Spain

Black Sea Dahu son Janine Cathrein y una banda de músicos apasionados. Una alianza creativa que les impulsa desde el estudio hasta los escenarios del mundo. Su aclamado álbum debut ‘White Creatures’ y el posterior EP ‘No Fire in the Sand’ fueron coproducidos por Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky, CAN). Desde el lanzamiento de su debut, el grupo ha realizado giras por toda Europa, llenando clubes y compartiendo escenarios con artistas como Ben Howard, José Gonzales, Lucy Rose y Sophie Hunger.

Sus canciones tratan sobre la empatía, la aceptación y el arte de reconocer la belleza en una danza interminable entre lo mediocre y lo sublime. Se trata de encontrar raíces y un lugar en un mundo que siempre está cambiando. Trata sobre todo tipo de relaciones: Amor, familia, sociedad… Pero básicamente es una carta de amor apasionada y honesta a la música.

Han tocado en festivales como Reeperbahn (2018), The Great Escape (2019), m4music (2019), MaMA (2019) y Eurosonic (2020). Los sencillos recién lanzados ‘Glue’, ‘Transience’ y ‘Affection’ allanan el camino para el próximo álbum ‘I Am My Mother’, lanzado en 2022. Con sus últimos lanzamientos «Orbit» y «I Am My Mother», volverán a realizar una gran gira por Europa en 2023 y 2024.

Booking Territory: Spain

Influenciada por la canción protesta árabe, como Cheikh Imam y Marcel Khalifé, y por el folk estadounidense de Joan Baez, Emel Mathlouthi llamada “Emel” se dio a conocer en 2011 con la canción “Kelmti Horra” (“Mi palabra es libre” ) que interpretó en plena Primavera Árabe convirtiéndose instantáneamente en un himno a la libertad.

Rápidamente lanzó su primer álbum titulado «Kelmti Horra» y participó en el primer concierto solista femenino ofrecido en la ópera de Teherán desde la Revolución iraní de 1979. Artista comprometida, en 2015 fue invitada a cantar en Oslo en los Premios Nobel.

En 2017, la cantante tunecina, musa de la revolución, fue excluida de la programación del Festival Internacional de Cartago. Bajo la presión del público y de los medios, finalmente regresó y actuó acompañada por músicos de la Orchestre Debout, formada durante el movimiento Nuit Debout que tuvo lugar en Francia en marzo de 2016.

Ese mismo año lanzó su segundo álbum, “Ensen”. Para este proyecto se rodeó del productor y compositor islandés Valgeir Sigurậsson, conocido por sus colaboraciones con Björk o Sigur Rós. En este momento continuó progresando hacia la música electrónica fusionando géneros. «Everywhere We Looked Was Burning» lanzado en 2019 es un disco íntegramente cantado en inglés.

Durante la primavera de 2020, mientras se alojaba en la casa de su infancia en Túnez, grabó en solitario las bases de un álbum doble «The Tunis Diaries» cuyos primeros arreglos sólo utilizan guitarra acústica y voz. Como un regreso a casa, «The Tunis Diaries» tiene dos partes, una titulada «Día» y la otra «Noche». El primer disco incluye la canción “Holm” con más de 14 millones de visitas en YouTube desde su lanzamiento en 2020. El segundo álbum incluye versiones de Leonard Cohen, David Bowie y Jeff Buckley. En septiembre de 2021 colaboró con el productor francés de música electrónica Vitalic para un espectáculo en el Théâtre du Châtelet de París; Los dos artistas crearon música en torno a la poesía de Ghada al-Samman.

Tras 10 años de carrera y 4 álbumes, la cantante tunecina afincada en Nueva York, Emel Mathlouthi regresa con un nuevo álbum que verá la luz en la primavera de 2024.

Booking territory: Spain & Portugal

Quienes han tenido la oportunidad de ver a Bab L' Bluz en directo no les habrá dejado indiferente el poderoso magnetismo de su frontwoman Yousra Mansour, una artista que, retomando un instrumento históricamente reservado a los hombres, nos transporta a una música ancestral y futurista, arraigada en blues psicodélico, funk, en los ritmos del rock y trance del Magreb: Gnawa, Amazigh, Hassani y Houara.

Un nuevo álbum, Swaken, del cuarteto franco-marroquí que ha conquistado al público con su energía arrolladora y que estará disponible el 10 de mayo de 2024 a través de Real World Records.

La voz de Yousra es más poderosa que nunca y los riffs de su awisha eléctrica son arrolladores. Sus compañeros de banda Brice Bottin, Ibrahim Terkemani y Jérôme Bartolome tocan con una armonía casi telepática, creando un sonido cálido y analógico que se remonta a íconos del rock como Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin y Nass El Ghiwane.

Once temas que te empujan y te sumergen en una dimensión que trasciende fronteras. La música como energía y poder sin paliativos.

Booking territory: Spain

MARO es un multi-instrumentista, compositora y productora de Lisboa. Graduada de la Berklee College of Music (Boston) en 2017, la artista portuguesa debutó oficialmente en 2018, lanzando cinco álbumes + un EP. Más tarde se unió a Jacob Collier en su DJESSE World Tour 2019, como parte de la banda. En estos años, MARO ha teloneado a muchos artistas, incluidos Jessie J, Charlotte Cardin y ¿Téo?, y ha agotado entradas en Portugal, España, Brasil, México y EE. UU.

En 2020 nace “ITSAME, MARO!", un proyecto dedicado a promover la colaboración a distancia. La serie incluye 100 episodios con artistas de todo tipo de géneros musicales, como Eric Clapton, Lennon Stella, The Paper Kites, Pablo Alborán, Lizzy McAlpine, Madison Cunningham, ANAVITÓRIA, Ivan Lins, Vitor Kley, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Maria Gadú, Mayra Andrade, Rui Veloso, Lionel Loueke y muchos otros.

En 2021 realizó un EP colaborativo Junto con NASAYA: "PIRILAMPO". 4 canciones que marcan el comienzo de un nuevo universo sonoro conjunto. El primero de muchos lanzamientos.

Más recientemente, MARO ganó el Festival da Canção y representó a su país en Eurovisión (2022) con "saudade, saudade", garantizando un lugar en el top 10. También lanzó "can you see me?", un álbum que muestra una nueva faceta , con influencias del pop, trap, world & folk. El último álbum de MARO, “hortelã” (abril de 2023), dará vida a una versión íntima y despojada de sus canciones más recientes, en una línea de folk acústico. Mayormente en portugués, este disco fue grabado en trío, con los guitarristas catalanes Darío Barroso & Pau Figueres.

Booking Territory: Spain

Psicodélicos frescos del Mediterráneo oriental

Este nuevo proyecto liderado por Antonis Antoniou – fundador de la galardonada

bandas Monsieur Doumani y Trio Tekke – aportan un aire fresco del este

Psicodelia mediterránea, rock y blues. Un ritmo dinámico y poco convencional emitido

de los tambores tribales y los feroces riffs del clarinete bajo produce un sonido sucio

ensueño parecido al trance. Al mismo tiempo, una energía alerta y chispeante recorre el

arreglos bruscos y a menudo inesperados, manteniendo un estricto control. El resultado es unpaisaje sonoro urbano difuso de texturas de sintetizador y electrónica dubby, órgano psicológico de los 70alusiones, crecientes expresiones de caña, grandes ritmos y melodías microtonales de Anatolia.

Se espera que su álbum debut se lance en abril de 2024 a través del aclamado

Sello alemán Glitterbeat Records.

Composer Blick Bassy is back with Mádibá, an album again sung in the Baasa language of Cameroon. Madíbá brings together ten songs in the form of fables, dedicated to the theme of water, in which his high and angelic voice dominates, carried by delicate guitar, synthesizer melodies, and sober brass arrangements. Africanity at the crossroads of soul, folk, and electro.

Booking territory: Spain & Portugal

"False Lankum" (Rough Trade Records, 2023)
Basándose en canciones del folclore tradicional de Irlanda, Lankum supo imprimir su propio y distintivo oscuro sello en cada una de las canciones, apoyándose en letanías pesadas y distorsión sónica que da una nueva intensidad y belleza a cada pista. Este disco supone la cimentación y su ruptura con el género folk, creando música audaz y contemporánea que puede estar formada a partir de elementos tradicionales pero que es en todo caso nueva, sentándose cómodamente junto a compañeros de sello de Rough Trade como Black Midi y Gilla Band. False Lankum también presenta dos pistas originales, 'Netta Perseus' y 'The Turn', ambas escritas por Daragh Lynch, miembro del grupo.
Desde el principio, Lankum planeó que False Lankum, su cuarto disco y el tercero de Rough Trade, se sintiera como una pieza completa: una progresión y un viaje para el oyente. “Queríamos crear más contraste en el disco para que las partes claras fueran casi espirituales y las partes oscuras fueran increíblemente oscuras, incluso induciendo al terror”, explican. Las 12 pistas del álbum, compuestas por 10 canciones tradicionales y dos originales, muestran al cuarteto usando una nueva paleta para colorear su sonido de una manera cada vez más experimental. Todo junto con el productor John 'Spud' Murphy.
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El cuarteto irlandés Lankum estuvo a punto de tocar en España, frente a las pinturas negras de Goya, cuando el confinamiento de 2020. No hubiera habido un mejor escenario para las letanías en que convierten la festiva música tradicional de su país. No pudieron actuar en aquella ocasión, pero aprovecharon el tiempo brindado por la situación para componer su quinto álbum, “False Lankum”, en una torre martello de la costa dublinesa, cerca de otra torre martello inmortalizada por James Joyce en su claustrofóbico “Ulises”. ROCKDELUX - Jesús Rodríguez

"Un disco que supone el culmen de Lankum y su personal visión de la música folk irlandesa como un lugar oscuro y terrorífico del que también puede surgir la más devastadora belleza." MONDO SONORO

This May Be Modern Folk Music’s own OK Computer” MOJO – ALBUM OF THE MONTH
“By some measure their most ambitious in terms of instrumentation, arrangements and the sheer creation of atmosphere… stoking the engines of folk tradition and setting course to who knows when.” UNCUT – 9/10
“False Lankum teems with moments of iridescent bliss” The Guardian – 5/5 Folk Album Of The Month

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Born and raised in Istanbul, Türkiye, Büşra Kayıkçı was introduced at an early age to artistic interests such as the piano, ballet and painting. As a young person she became fascinated with the work of classical and contemporary artists in a variety of fields. In 2011, having studied interior architecture and environmental design, and inspired by composers such as John Cage and Nils Frahm, she began to incorporate musical elements into her concept of design.

Over the years, Büşra Kayıkçı became increasingly convinced that a composer is in fact following the same path as a designer: the materials might be different, but the principles are basically the same. Using all the techniques she had acquired, she devoted herself increasingly to designing sound, drawing on influences from her everyday environment to create minimalist and modern classical compositions. In particular, she was attracted to the idea of creating new piano sounds through manipulating the instrument in different ways.

PLACES (Album) release November 2023

Label: Warner Classics

Publishing: Faber Music / Manners McDade

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IF YOU THINK THAT THE MICAH P. HINSON’S BIOGRAPHY IS TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD, JUST LISTEN HOW HE MANAGES TO TRANSFIGURE HIS LIFE HERE, IN THE FILIGREE OF THESE ELEVEN TALES OF LOVE, LOSS AND REGRET.

JUST LISTEN TO HIS WEATHERED, HUSKY,PROPHET-LIKE VOICE, TO HIS INTENSE BIBLICAL PSALMODY, TO HIS MUSIC POURING DOWN THE TRUTH EVEN FROM MAJOR CHORDS, TO HIS ARTIST HEART ONCE AGAIN LAID BARE.

HIS MUSIC IS HARDLY REASSURING, BUT THAT’S THE FOLK, BABIES! IT COMES FROM FAR, FROM FAMINE AND SORROW AND PLAGUE...

THE NEW ALBUM COMES UP FROM FIVE DAYS AND FIVE NIGHTS OF RECORDING IN A ROOM NAKED TO THE BONE IN IRPINIA, SOUTH ITALY, AND FROM A VERY ACCURATE DIAMOND-POLISHING PRODUCTION BY ALESSANDRO ASSO STEFANA (PJ HARVEY, MIKE PATTON, VINICIO CAPOSSELA).

AS BEAUTIFUL AS AN ARMY WITH BANNERS HAVE ALSOCOME TO SIDE WITH MICAH AND ASSO THE RAFFAELE TISEO’S CELESTIAL STRINGS, THE ZENO DE ROSSI METAPHYSIC DRUMMING AND THE DOUBLE BASS GENTLEMAN GREG COHEN.

THE ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED NEXT DECEMBER 2022 WORLWIDE BY PONDEROSA RECORDS.

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The release of Blackbird, the debut single from hotly tipped US vocalist Lady Blackbird. A stirring interpretation of Nina Simone’s powerful civil rights anthem, the track is imbued with passion, enthusiasm and hope and signals the arrival of a revelatory new voice on the global jazz scene.

“The Grace Jones of Jazz” - Gilles Peterson, Worldwide FM

“I find her just mesmerizing...she blew me away” - Anne Litt Program Director, KCRW

“This singer that blew my mind…a singer thats just gonna explode, her name is Lady Blackbird” - Gilles Peterson, BBC6 Music

“I’ve heard the album it is absolutely awesome! It's going to be one of the albums of 2020…Remember the name Lady Blackbird” - Jeff Young, Jazz FM UK

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Tras un primer EP con 2,5 millones de streams publicado en otoño de 2021 y una notable actuación como telonera de Jamie Cullum en la emblemática Sala Pleyel de París, la talentosísima Gabi Hartmann presenta un magnífico primer álbum homónimo entre la Chanson, el Jazz y el Folk.

Acompañada por el compositor y productor Jesse Harris (Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux…), la joven parece haber vivido ya varias vidas para regar su música con tantos matices y colores, perfectamente fundidos en una voz muy personal y unas canciones que ya gozan de una dimensión superior.

En constante evolución, Gabi ofrece de forma brillante canciones en inglés, como su segundo single Buzzing Bee, I’ll Tell You Something y Baby, en portugués (Coração Transparente) y, por supuesto, en francés, con la magnífica Une errante sur la terre, l'amour incompris o el primer single Mille Rivages, que se ha incorporado a varias listas de reproducción de radios en Francia, con un resultado muy notable y sorprendente, que pone de manifiesto su talento y su voz única.

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If ever Pedro Almodóvar wanted a new muse, he need look no further than La Yegros, the kooky queen of nu cumbia. Blessed with the strident yet sweet vocals of a cantadora and a knack for combining Argentinian folk traditions with cutting-edge beats, it's her cartoonish persona that lifts her into the A-list. This time around the France-based, Buenos Aires-born singer has recruited guests including Argentinian folk hero and Grammy-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (on the Andean stringed instrument ronroco) on lead single ‘Chicha Roja’, a ludicrously catchy cumbia with novel electro touches and an animated video that sees La Yegros as a chicha-drinking goddess who takes the ancestors on a psychedelic journey through rural South America. Elsewhere, Lindigo from La Réunion lend otherworldly vocals and visceral maloya rhythms to songs that twang and boing and jig. But it's La Yegros, spitting lyrics, who commands attention.

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“It’s well-known in rap and hip-hop circles that, along with (James) Brown and (George) Clinton, Wesley is one of the most sampled musicians in the world today.” - Timothy White, Billboard.

Fred Wesley and James Brown’s backing band The JBs head to Manchester for a rare lesson in the history of funk.

Beginning his career with Ike and Tina Turner, he later became musical director, arranger and composer for the Godfather of funk himself, James Brown, and arranged for and played with Parliament-Funkadelic.

Wesley became the world’s most famous sideman through his work with Brown, defining the language of funk for years to come and later taking it to the next level alongside George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.

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The award-winning Israeli-Persian singer Liraz returns with a new single "Azizam" from her upcoming third album 'Roya' (due out on 7 October 2022 on Glitterbeat). A collection of 11 tracks that enrich her signature blend of tradi-modern rhythms and retro-Persian sonics, 'Roya' ("fantasy" in Farsi) is music as a magic portal, an arched gateway to a place of peace, joy and unfettered, chador-waving freedom.

“With its combination of traditional Persian instruments, primitive electronics and Liraz’s dramatic delivery in Farsi, ‘Zan' is a glimpse into another world.” ****

The Times

“Filled with electro-dance tracks that revive and remix a 1970s era remembered for a lively Iranian pop scene.”

The Guardian

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It’s a voice that soars – pure, clear and true —above bass and synths, traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves. A stop-you-in-your-tracks voice instantly familiar to anyone in Mali, West Africa: Rokia Koné, aka the Rose of Bamako.

One of Mali’s most beloved and dynamic artists, Koné is a force to be reckoned with. Her captivating performances in the city’s local maquis clubs very often last for hours, as Koné runs the gamut of emotion from joy to despair, fury to tenderness, wielding that astounding voice with grace and power.

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When Buenos Aires native Eduardo Makaroff and Swiss born Christoph H. Müller met in Paris during the creation of the Gotan Project in 1998, they both already had a rich background and careers in music in their countries of origin as well as in France.
Alongside their activities within the Gotan Project they have written and produced music together for feature films, documentaries and advertising campaigns.

The Anthropocene (Antropoceno) is the current geological epoch, in which human actions are the main cause of the destruction of an ecosystem that is essential to the survival of our species: Homo Sapiens.

Everybody, in every level of society, should act in order to prevent the coming catastrophes. We have decided to fight back with the strongest weapon we have: our music. With our songs we try to raise awareness of a crisis that is already happening, but is not treated like one!

Parisian quintet formed in 2011 by a group of friends at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Feu! Chatterton formed by singer and lyricist Arthur Teboul, Clément Doumic and Sébastien Wolf (guitars, keyboards), Antoine Wilson (bass) and Raphël de Pressigny (drums). After a first title released in 2012, "La Mort dans la pinède", the band, that was named after the name of the English poet Thomas Chatterton, became known because his literary and live rock at festivals and won three awards in 2014: Prix Chorus, Prix Paris Jeunes Talents and Prix Félix-Leclerc.

His French-speaking rock tinged with electronic music is evident on the albums L'Oiseleur (2018), nominated for the Victoires de la Musique, then Palais d'Argile (2021), produced by Arnaud Rebotini.

They have become one of the biggest french rock bands nowadays. U2 recently has chosen them for the opening of their virtual tour U2: THE VIRTUAL ROAD.

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Since being discovered via the social networks (with more than 800 000 views and 30 000 followers on Facebook) where she sings the solos of the great jazz masters (such as her video of “Giant Steps” which instantly went viral), people have not stopped talking about Camille Bertault.

While pursuing her diploma in classical piano at the conservatory, Camille was also studying voice and theater at the same time. After graduating, she enrolled in the jazz department where she continued her studies in music theory, composition and improvisation.

Driven by her passion for writing and literary composition, she wrote and published two musicals for the young audience. Camille then began singing her own French lyrics and poetry on jazz standards and, finally, on her own compositions.

Her first album “En Vie” offers a beautiful assembly of her writings, arrangements, and compositions which be released by the New Yorker label Sunnyside and be distributed by Naïve on April 2016.

“Le Tigre ” released in 2020 by Sony Music

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On this first solo venture Casper Clausen exhibits a sense of ingenuity and musical exploration, unrestricted by formats, genres and collective goals. He presents a kaleidoscopic album journeying new terrain, twisting dense textures and swirls of sound into tales of alienation and love.

Deeply rooted in his residency in Lisbon, Portugal, the songs came together through snatched moments between tours and was mixed in the hills outside the city by Sonic Boom of Spaceman 3.

"It’s a record about finding a better way, loving stronger, falling harder” he says. And through eight tracks of sparkling, light-filled explorations Clausen channels moods and sounds with a sense of unbridled freedom, optimism and inquisitive liberty, touching on elements of krautrock, avant-pop and progressive rock, whilst the delicate, bassy vocal refrains and expansive approach to composition is unmistakably the Casper Clausen fans have come to know.

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DONA ONETE

On the eve of her 80th birthday, Dona Onete - ‘the grande dame of Amazonian song’ - returns with Rebujo, a love letter to her hometown of Belém, situated deep in the Amazon. Rebujo brims with two music styles born in Belém: carimbós, influenced by African grooves, and bangues, a ska-type rhythm, plus there’s a cumbia, brega (‘romantic’ music) and a samba.

Outside of Brazil, she has been invited to perform at Roskilde, Womad (UK, NZ & AUS), Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival and TFF Rudolstadt amongst other festivals and her video for previous single No Meio do Pitiú has over 9 million views on Youtube. She’s a spokesperson for indigenous people and minorities and on a recent trip to Australia she called out the government’s treatment of Aboriginal people live on ABC news.

Whether composing songs praising 19th century Brazilian revolutionaries (Fogo na Aldeia), beautiful black women from the favela (Musa da Babilonia) or the racial mix in Belém, “My love is black… blonde…. dark… creole… mulatto… Caboclo (a mix of native Indian and European)” (Mistura Pai D'Égua), Rebujo is part love-letter, part war-cry: “We're messed up, I can see that we’re divided. I want us to be united… I’m dedicated to fight for my culture.”

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“Sings like Tom Waits, writes like Ovid” Sunday Times

“Behind all the transformations is a visionary songwriter whose music stays wonderfully down to earth.” The New York Times

Vinicio Capossela is an Italian singer-songwriter, poet & writer who debuted in 1990 under the aegis of Renzo Fantini with the record ‘All’una e Trentacinque Circa’.

Over the past 30 years, Vinicio Capossela has collaborated with Marc Ribot, Kocani Orkester, Mario Brunello and his Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, nell’Orcaestra, Mario Brunello and released 18 albums heavily influenced by Tom Waits, Charles Bukowskiand Jack Kerouac.

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O TERNO

The Brazilian band O Terno is back in Europe this week for three shows: on the 14th, at the Razzmatazz in Barcelona; on the 15th, at the Capitólio in Lisbon and on the 16th at the Festival Para Gente Sentada in Braga. These shows are part of a tour to promote the band’s latest must-have album "<atrás/além>". Tickets can be purchased from the usual outlets.

This Brazilian power trio’s fourth album flies in the face of the general trend of producing one-off singles, presenting, instead, a solid conceptual opus that needs to be listened to right through. With orchestral arrangements that are more refined and more grandiose than any of their previous works, O Terno have found a musical space that transcends the well-known and well-trodden boundaries of jazz, indie, MPB, erudite music and rock. The band’s sound, by the way, says it all, with Tim Bernardes’ guitar and voice, Guilherme’s bass and Biel Basile’s drums working together to serve the greater good. If you want to take the pulse of good new Brazilian music, go to an O Terno concert.

“Definitively existentialist, the fourth album from this São Paulo band captures a certain maturity, with farewells, new arrivals and string arrangements.”

Rolling Stone Brazil

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The Maravillas de Mali is the incredible journey of young malian students travelling to Cuba, in the 60s, within the framework of the exchanges between the socialist African countries and the Cuban state.
They are going to become stars in La Havana between 1964 and 1971, the symbol of the relationships between Cuba and Africa.

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New project by mastermind behind Mbongwana Star

This is new. This is so new that no one has heard much from the project yet. And still, the world of curious music fans is raving about it.

There is a reason for that!

Bantou Mentale is a new project started by Doctor L (Liam Farrell), the Irish-born, Paris-based electro producer behind outfits like Tony Allen, Mbongwana Star and Les Amazones d'Afrique.

With a heavy Congolese flavour, it bills itself as “the new rave from Kinshasa”. Songs from the depths of Africa, dark repetitive ecstatic vocals, embedded in an aesthetic electronic sound world full of broken beats, bass, distortion and buzz.

The band consists of Congolese musicians based between Château Rouge, Paris, and Matongé, DR Congo: Chico on guitar, Cubain Kabeya on drums (former drummer of Jupiter & Okwess), Apocalypse on vocals and Liam Farrell on bass, guitar, synths and beats.

The Paris-based band will release their debut album in autumn 2019 on Glitterbeat Records

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SANTROFI

Santrofi in Akan mythology is the tale of a precious rare and precious bird, identified by its bright colours and four wings. So unique, it was forbidden to be hunted; If caught to hold, was a symbol of bad omen, if spotted and left to fly away, a great treasure will be forfeit. Santrofi is revered for the clarity of its vision and the transformative beauty and power of its song.

Very proverbial of the new vintage-inspired Highlife, Highlife Funk and Afrobeat, Santrofi is a collective of celebrated young musicians known within Ghana’s music circles. Led by Bassist/ producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the immutable Ebo Taylor, and Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band to form his own collective deeply informed by vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms - some largely unknown to the world ranging from the smelting soulful highlife sound that can only be nurtured by Accra’s afternoon scorch, to the riveting fast-paced pulse of 70s dance-guitar highlife, or to the other-worldly sound of Highlife funk, 50s big band highlife or the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took Afrobeat across the globe. This wall of sound, although long lost and forgotten, is back with effortless ease and with a progressive edge like it never left.

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“Su Akyol’s voice is light but elegant, and her songs are by turns urgent, sultry and romantic and politically barbed. The new sound of Istanbul.” -- The Observer

Gaye Su Akyol has established herself as one of Turkey’s most compelling young voices and most exhilarating sonic explorers. Her work as a singer-songwriter, producer and audio/visual conceptualist, simultaneously navigates the storied past, the hyper-connected present and the unscripted future. Her new album "İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir" (Constant Fantasy is Reality) is her second for Glitterbeat and her most visceral, widescreen and galvanizing album to date.

“Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir,” which translates as “Consistent Fantasy is Reality,” is a deeply poetic album; an album of personalized politics, an album that digs into the heart our contentious, inexplicable contemporary experience. Never blinking. Always dreaming. Never giving up. Play that song, play the vinyl, Let the storm turn around.

“The Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol has emerged at the fore of her country’s revitalized music scene... mixes Turkish modes and scales with surf rock, and psychedelia.” -- Pitchfork

"With this album I pursued new sounds in the deep waters of this geography, dug up the manifestation of my experiences, all the music, the people, the pain, the dreams and countries I have heard and was touched by, followed the footsteps of a personal archeology and tried to add my lost territories to these. I was involved in all stages of production, arrangement and recording as co-producer, and in the visual language and graphics of the album as the art director.

This album is in search of the great crisis of existence, the assorted peculiarities that you are subjected to when you refuse to get used to and are alienated by things such as war, or death, a sudden separation forever from a loved one, dreams for instance, the nature of species, what we look for in this weird planet, what we are not able to find, what we call real and what we turn down as dreams.

Dreams keep you awake and it is time to wake up!"
Gaye Su Akyol: Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir (Release date: October 26th, 2018)

Gaye Su Akyol: vocals, percussions, electronics / Ali Güçlü Şimşek: electric & acoustic guitar, back vocal / Görkem Karabudak: bass & acoustic guitar, keyboard, electronics, back vocal / Ediz Hafızoğlu: drums

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In their second album Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album, released by Domino on April 7th in 2017, represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan and Mississippi John Hurt; and three very different vocalists. The combination is unusual: YTK’s Everything Sacred, released in 2016, may be the only precedent. Yet while, on paper, the constituent elements might seem disparate, the new album is, if anything, even more coherent than its predecessor. It also basks in a truly magnificent title: Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars. Just don’t call it fusion.

More info: https://www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/

KOKOKO! is a collective of artists and musicians formed in Ngwaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brought together with the help of local production company La Belle Kinoise (Africa Express), the project melds a group of punk-spirited local musicians with prolific French bass producer débruit. After building a recording studio together out of mattresses, wood and a ping pong table, the collaborators began exploring each other’s ideas, sounds, and cultural influences. What emerges is a radical and urgent style blending self-built instruments and futuristic production that hints at psychedelia, disco, and rugged post-punk.

Coming off the back of a trail-blazing introductory short ‘We are KOKOKO!’ which amassed over 2 million views across various platforms, they released their debut EP TOKOLIANA in June 2017. New EP TONGOS’A, (out October 20 on ICI) finds the band further exploring themes of survival in the DRC’s current political climate and features raunchy ghetto anthems, tropical bass lines but remains routed in folkloric tradition.

Live they perform as an explosive 5 piece ensemble propelled by their customised junk percussion, home-built instruments and vocal mantras. Following a debut European tour in spring, KOKOKO! return across 19 dates this autumn including Amsterdam Dance Event, Milan’s Linecheck Festival, and a residency at the London Jazz Festival. 

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Having grown up in Kinshasa and Brussels, Témé Tan manages to fuse his wordly roots with pop, hip hop and electronics. But it is not just African rhythms that fascinate this young Belgian. His travels also found inspiration in Japan and Brazil, and the joyously seductive single 'Améthys' was early proof of his potential. He released his impressively kaleidoscopic, self-titled debut album through PIAS International in October 2017 and has been on the move and on the rise ever since.

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He is one of the leading bluesmen of his generation, ERIC BIBB has released an astounding 36 albums and enjoyed a non-stop touring career spanning 5 decades. He brings together a faithful and multinational ‘tribe’ of musicians with whom he has recorded and performed on stage, including such luminaries as Pops and Mavis Staples, Guy Davis, Bonnie Raitt, Toumani Diabate, and Jerry Douglas.

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Drums that are both metronomic and feline, a dobro-guitar with riffs made from embers, telluric basslines that seem to escape from a dented tuba… Here is Delgres, a power-trio that’s reinventing the blues by injecting an abrasive rock transe in it, recalling the Tuaregs’ soul as much as The Black Keys or John Lee Hooker’s, while carrying Louis Delgres’ secular message : his heroic fight against slavery in the Guadeloupe island. This is how this rebellious and burning music means so much nowadays, by speaking to us through shivers, and vibrating our bodies as well as our minds. 

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Arto Lindsay (b. 1953) has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of No Wave. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers he developed an intensely subversive pop music,a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles.. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Caetano Veloso and  Rirkrit Tiravanija.Having been involved with carnaval in Brazil for many years in 2004 he began making parades.

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Cheikh Lô is one of the great mavericks of African music. A superb singer and songwriter as well as a distinctive guitarist, percussionist and drummer, he has personalised and distilled a variety of influences from West and Central Africa, to create a style that is uniquely his own.

For the last few years Lô withdrew from the international stage and immersed himself in the Dakar scene playing regularly with his own band and this return home is reflected in his last album Jamm (World Circuit). His signature blend of semi-acoustic flavours - West and Central African, Cuban, flamenco - has been distilled into his most mature, focused, yet diverse statement to date.Cheikh Lô is an artist unlike any other in music. 

Brooklyn’s finest JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns with her new album for PIAS in Feb 2018, to be announced November 2017 (with full band tour ticket pre sell). 

The new music is regarded as Joan’s best yet from those who have heard early mixes from the studio. 

In 2016 Joan collaborated with Benjamin Lazar Davis on the acclaimed  “Let It Be You” album and scored her first film (with Thomas Bartlett) out 2018 called “Permission” (directed by Brian Crano). JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN’s most recent 2017 concert was as special guest to Sufjan Stevens new collaborative project Planetarium with Nico Muhly & Bryce Dessner (The National) at the 6,500 capacity Celebrate Brooklyn event held in Prospect Park. 

‘Joan Wasser is one of those singers who sounds fresh and original on every album she makes’ The Sunday Express ««««

“an absolute treat” The Wall Street Journal

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Konono No.1's "Congotronics" album introduced the world to the strange and spectacular electro-traditional mixtures which are being concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa, Congo. World music, electronica and avant-rock aficionados have all been equally amazed by this otherworldly music, which has driven the international press to come up with some surprising comparisons (from Can and Krautrock to Jimi Hendrix, Lee Perry and proto-techno!...).

The band was founded back in the 1960s by Mingiedi Mawangu, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). By experimenting with magnets salvaged from old car parts, Mingiedi invented and gradually improved his own electrified likembe, which he plugged into a guitar amplifier. The band's line-up includes two or three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), singers, dancers and a sound system featuring these famous megaphones.

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With their sure-handed, genre-spanning fusion of Afrofunk, Guinean malinké, Arabian dub, Brazilian candomblé, samba, cumbia, carimbó, adapted Afro-Brazilian chants, Cuban blaxploitation, Angolan guitar music and whatever else they feel like throwing in, Bixiga 70 have propelled themselves to the forefront of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene

Moody ruminations on the fragile nature of life can be a tough sell, especially when they're flecked with haunting moans and screams. But from the mid-1990s on, Chan Marshall has proven herself a singer and songwriter who can really get under your skin. Working under the name Cat Power, she's earned a devoted, steadily growing fanbase that's followed her from humble avant-folk beginnings. As much about atmosphere as they are melody, her records have also become successively richer in sound, soul and scope.

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Finley cut his teeth in the Army. He joined at 17 and was stationed in Germany working on helicopters. He got a secondary MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) as an entertainer and started leading his own band. They had a big repertoire, but specialized in soul and R&B—songs by Joe Simon, Tyrone Davis, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye. Both the US servicemen and the European crowds loved it. During these years, Finley honed the art of capturing and keeping an audience, "making the magic happen."

Back in Bernice, Louisiana, Finley found that leading a band—without the strictures of the military keeping everybody on time and in place—was thankless and unsustainable. So he sharpened his solo act and played out whenever he could. He also began working as a carpenter, a profession he maintained for decades. Now legally blind, Finley can no longer build houses. He can still tear them down though, so Music Maker is working with Finley to keep the gigs coming and help connect him to new audiences. In 2016, he made a splash playing with the Music Maker Revue at the prestigious Globalfest in New York City, gaining critical praise from NPR and The New York Times.

"Here I am at my age, just now fulfilling my childhood dream," Finley says with his warm and ever-present smile. "It's like the song says, ‘Age Don't Mean a Thing.' See, you've got to hold to your dream; don't ever let somebody tell you what you can't do." When he was younger, Finley would play 6 or 7 hours straight (10 hours straight, once) if the people wanted it. Still today, he brings a workingman's ethic to performance; he plays hard and respects his audience. "Without the fans," he says, "You're nothing really. It doesn't matter how good you are; you've got to be able to convince the people that you're worth their investment." Most nights, Finley will have you convinced before the end of the first song. 

But now, in the true spirit of the American Dream, Finley’s music is once again primed to reach doors and shores at home and abroad, as his new LP Goin ’ Platinum! is set to be released through Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound this fall.

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In 2005, Michael Reilly embarked on a journey down south with the intention to film a documentary about local musicians. Through a series of unexpected yet fortunate events Reilly was led to Como Mississippi, and ultimately to the table of Angela Taylor – where she, her sister Della Daniels, and long time friend Ester Mae Smith performed an a cappella rendition of “Peace of Mind”. It was this moment that inspired Michael to return to Como with proper recording equipment, and much like what Alan Lomax had done decades before, document some of the most honest, soulful music to ever be tracked to tape. The first volume of recordings, 2008’s “Como Now” featured the Como Mamas, as well as several other local groups delivering heart stopping a cappella renditions of songs they cherished. And though the Como Mama’s remained skeptical that anyone would want to hear them singing an entire record of acappella gospel, we at Daptone Records are proud to present Get an Understanding, 13 songs of unadulterated gospel greatness.

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When Swedish singer/musician Anna von Hausswolff was young, her parents used to tell her stories about a place the family loved to visit. The location is seeped in a complicated history: a home, for example, to Sweden's traditional folk music, it is an area of outstanding natural beauty, but once provided the backdrop for a momentous uprising against the country's king during which thousands of peasants were slaughtered, leaving its landscapes bathed in blood. It became, to her, a place of mystery, magic and terror, and, though she won't say where it is, she still returns repeatedly, if sometimes only in her imagination. She calls the place Miraculous.

Much of the music on "The Miraculous" draws from these stories and images while making excessive use of the Acusticum Pipe Organ in Pitea, Northern Sweden, whose colossal sound - with nine thousand pipes, it's one of the biggest of its kind in the country - swells heroically throughout the album. Inaugurated in 2012, and designed by Gerard Woehl, it lends the record a unique edge, enabling moments of true drama and supplying the brooding drones and dreamy soundscapes that provide the album's foundations.

Anna von Hausswolff has spent the majority of time since the release of her last album "CEREMONY" touring the world and playing special shows in very special settings such as the Lincoln Cathedral, in England's East Midlands or the Town Hall during the Sydney Festival as well as headline tours, including China, and opening for bands such as Efterklang. She also recently lend vocals to the Royal Swedish Opera House's ballet of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She spent last year touring with the legendary band Swans. One of her more inspirational bands who became a fan of her music. 

Booking territory: Spain

Baloji is a poet, composer-lyricist/beatmaker, scriptwriter, actor and performer, video artist and stylist. After the release of his album Hotel Impala (2008), his Congolese reinterpretation (Kinshasa Succursale, 2011) was awarded 4 stars by the world’s press (NYT, Guardian, El Pais, Les Inrocks..). His music stands at the crossroads of African music, hip-hop, the French singer-songwriter tradition, Afro-American music and electronic music, which has its roots in part in the region of Belgium where Baloji grew up. After more than 200 live shows all over the world, Baloji will soon be back with a new EP.

Booking territory: Spain

None other than Caetano Veloso himself called her “the future of Brazilian music”: the 33 year old Céu from São Paulo has a very cool sound and is considered one of the greatest singers of her generation. Since 2007 she has been outstripping all the superstars of her country with her mix of samba-poetry, triphop and electronica. The beautiful singer shows where Brazilian pop between souly retro and erotic futurism can go in the 21st century. Her first and second album “Céu” and “Vagarosa” were extremely good in North America and in Europe and the critics were equally outstanding.

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Spectacular latin core

Some roots can be knotty. One of those is certainly Pixvae. As the hybrid peach palm from which it borrows its name, this unusual group is the result of cross origins, a space where the warm melodies of the Afro-Colombian music meet the energy of rock and eclectic jazz culture. Confronting the worlds, merging traditions, Pixvae embodies an unsuspected alchemy between jazzcore and currulao: a direction that shakes the perception, upsets the entrails and awakens the imagination. Here, electrical power accompanies sublime trance carrier songs.  

Booking Territory: Spain

South America's hottest Cumbia Orchestra

Chico Trujillo is Chile's most prominent Cumbia band. They are the soundtrack to every party from Santiago to Valparaiso. They can fill stadiums. Their mixture of classic cumbia and hints of rock and ska has assured them audiences from every generation and every walk of life.

Chico Trujillo started as an offshoot of punk/Ska band LaFloripondio in 1999. Thirteen years and five albums later, the offshoot has come to symbolize a uniquely Chilean cocktail. One that is rooted in the cumbias of the pre-Pinochet days and manages to incorporate every aspect of Chile's popular culture. They have meshed bits and pieces of Chile's fragemented past with the global influence of alternative culture and merged it all under the pan-latin banner of Cumbia.

It's the first time since ska erupted out of Jamaican onto the world’s dance floors (three times over) that a a popular musical movement not born in the United States is going global. This time, though, it’s a hispanophone movement, making huge headways in Latin America, Europe and Japan.

Booking territory: Spain & Portugal

Un grupo nacido a propósito de matar a la alegría. Un grupo sin nombre, auto-referido solo por una simple descripción de si mismo. Un grupo que no debe existir según el mercado, la radio, y las tendencias de la música de hoy.

Pero con la misma facilidad que avanzan las depresiones en las personas, aquellas que no hacen nada para impedirlo y que se contagian de depresivos a deprimidos, también así de fácil se contagiaron unos músicos, una ciudad, y todas las personas de un país hambrientas de las canciones sencillas — sencillas si, pero desgarradoras, alegres, y realísticamente tristes, como puede ser la misma existencia y la misma vida.

Desde el 2007, cuando el Macha (cantante del grupo Chileno Chico Trujillo) y Tocori Berrú, en las horas libres de una gira de por Europa en el patio del Centro Cultural Tacheles en Berlin, comenzaron a rescatar viejos valsecitos peruanos, boleros que siempre han rondado por el alma y los recuerdos de cada quien, con el propósito de cantar por cantar. Pero ltambien as avalanchas nacen de una pelotita de nieve pequeña. Así fue en un principio, un valsecito peruano entre 20 cumbias en los conciertos de Chico Trujillo, luego un vals y un bolero hacia el final del concierto, para aterrizar así al público eufórico a un estado emocional que solo una canción maravillosa y “asesina” puede lograr.

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Den Sorte Skole is a sample-based producer and composer group from Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2004 by Simon Dokkedal, Martin F. Jakobsen (on leave since 2011) and Martin Højland.

By sampling fragments of sound from old vinyl-records from all corners of the world and genres as diverse as folk, psych rock, early electronic music, noise, all kinds of so-called world-music, classical music and field recordings, Den Sorte Skole take listeners on a unique journey through musical history and beyond. This is world-music in the true sense of the word!

Booking territory: Spain

Music that exist everywhere but belongs nowhere.

After winning a special rookie of the year award from broadcaster EBS in 2011, Jambinai has performed at a wide variety of Korean venues, from Doosan Art Center to Pentaport Rock Festival. The band creates a new form of music that mixes heavy post-rock and avant-garde, played on Korean traditional instruments like the haegeum, the piri and the geomungo, and electric guitars and electronics. Their intense, explosive performances have won them devoted fans on Hongdae’s indie scene. 2013 was a great year for the band, with 2 nominations and the best crossover award during the Korean music awards and their first concert outside Korea in Helsinki, Finland. 2014 saw the release of their first album outside Korea, followed by a extensive tour around the world. Their second album A Hermitage was released on Bella Union in 2016, and has been promoted via an extensive album release tour across Europe.

Booking territory: Spain

Born in Bolgatanga in rural Ghana, King Ayisoba was a prodigy on the kologo, playing locally until he’d outgrown the possibilities of the area. Moving to Accra, the country’s biggest city, he eventually released the song “I Want To See You, My Father.” There was nothing modern about it. No hiplife rap, no electronic beats. But somehow it conquered the country and brought the tradition firmly into the mainstream.

Booking territory: Europe

Tim Duffy met Guitar Gabriel in 1990, and they began playing together. Through Gabriel Tim began to get to know other older musicians and learned about the harsh realities of their lives.  Initially he tried to organize gigs and recording deals for these musicians in order to help them keep body and soul together. After three years of this he realized that without help he wasn’t going to get anywhere. He had made some rough field recordings of many of the performers and in the end they were what started the ball rolling. 

Not only is the music that the foundation strives to preserve important, the work of the foundation itself must be preserved beyond this one generation for it to be successful. Initially it may have been founded with the humanitarian goal of caring for those who pioneered the Blues, but it has outgrown that impulse. Now it is fast becoming a means of preserving an important aspect of the United States’ cultural heritage.

 They are one of the best and brightest hopes for keeping the Blues alive today.

Leyla McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole and English, and plays cello, tenor banjo and guitar. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her music is at once earthy, elegant, soulful and witty — it vibrates with three centuries of history, yet also feels strikingly fresh, distinctive and contemporary.

Booking territory: Spain

Leyla’s debut album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, was named 2013’s Album of the Year by the London Sunday Times and Songlines magazine, and received additional raves from a number of other publications, including the New York Times, Boston Globe and Offbeat, for its haunting mixture of music and message.

De Biasio’s warm, dark, and sultry voice blends the rhythmic incantatory feeling of Nina Simone with shades of Sade and even echoes of the Velvet Underground. 
Low in volume and high in seductive impact, it's when the tempo crawls and forms are distended that she generates her most powerfully absorbing atmospheres. 
D.Wade
Booking territory: Spain

Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician, composer, and arranger. He is known as the father of Ethio-jazz, a unique blend of pop, modern jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, Latin rhythms, Caribbean reggae, and Afro-funk. Born in 1943, Astatke was musically trained in London, New York City and Boston, where he was the first African student at Berklee College of Music. He went on to work with Duke Ellington and other acclaimed jazz artists. The ‘Ethiopiques’ CD series has opened a new audience to his ‘Ethio-jazz’ experiments, but it wasn’t until Jim Jarmusch’s film ‘Broken Flowers’ came out in 2005, featuring his music heavily throughout, that momentum started to gather and a young generation of urban artists started sampling Astatke’s music.

Booking territory: Spain

Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet have always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group have created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of four albums, from their 2007 debut Knee-Deep in the North Sea to Live/Remix in 2013. Now rebooted as a quartet after a brief spell as the three-piece Portico, the group will perform material from their forthcoming Gondwana Records release, Art In The Age Of Automation alongside back-catalogue favourites.

Booking territory: Spain

Orchestra Baobab are one of Africa’s great iconic bands, creators of one of the world’s most sublime and truly distinctive pop sounds. Founded in 1970, Orchestra Baobab fused Afro-Cuban rhythm and Portuguese Creole melody with Congolese rumba, high life and a whole gamut of local styles – kickstarting a musical renaissance in their native Senegal, which turned the capital Dakar into one of the most vibrant musical cities in the world. They produced more hits in less than a decade than other bands would in a lifetime. Orchestra Baobab are still very much in business today and thet just released in 2017 their last album "Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng" (World Circuit, 2017).

Booking territory: Spain

In 2015, Mdou Moctar received significant attention for starring in and soundtracking the first film in Tamashek, the language of the West African Tuareg people: It was a reimagining of Prince’s Purple Rain called Rain the Color of Blue With a Little Red in It (because Tamashek lacks a word for Prince’s favorite color). Shot in Agadez, Niger, the film depicted Moctar’s rise, purple motorcycle and all, in the guitar-heavy genre of “desert blues” popularized by acts like his idols Tinariwen. Moctar’s soundtrackdemonstrated his innovations to the genre, particularly his addition of electronic sounds and production techniques to the intricate, psychedelic sounds of his fellow Tuareg guitarists.

“Anar,” the first track from Moctar’s upcoming album Sousoume Tamachek, demonstrates the range of sound he can squeeze out of his guitar. Though much more downtempo than some of his work, his attention to detailed guitar patterns is clear. The track blends of acoustic and electric guitars into a loping, ethereal track: a tinkling, descending motif sits atop relaxed singing, which is as close to a hook the song offers in an otherwise meditative outing. At over six minutes in length, “Anar” could risk becoming a little too atmospheric, but the beautiful bits and pieces of Moctar’s playing refuse to fade into the background.

Booking territory: Spain