World Music

Second Album by Texas trio Khruangbin. 2015‘s debut The Universe Smiles Upon You was influenced by 60‘s and 70‘s Thai funk music. After being on th...

Mordechai is available in an indie store exclusive pink vinyl. The prolific Khruangbin locomotive shows little sign of slowing with the announcemen...

Lunar Tredd – Fimber Bravo’s first album on Moshi Moshi since the much acclaimed Con-Fusion – tells the tale. The highlife fusion of You Can’t Cont...

Cumbia, the music and the dance synonymous with Colombia, has been around almost since the 17th century. Today, it’s a badge of identity for Colomb...

Electric Jalaba comprises six accomplished musicians with an empathy that feels telepathic and a groove that immerses. In Arabic, the mother tongue...

BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground and, after an extended hiatus, the Johannesburg foursome - championed by The Mars Volt...

Buena Vista Social Club is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havan...

Ten years on from its original release, Ample Play Records will release, the ground breaking ‘Cornershop And The Double ‘O’ Groove Of’ album by Cor...

Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 2 is the new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stu...

The ever shape-shifting, critically hailed Hercules and Love Affair return with 'In Amber', their first album in five years, out 17th June 2022 an...

The long awaited debut LP from Kokoroko - Could We Be More “Drawing influence from West African highlife and jazz, wellmarinated in enough polyrhyt...

Even in trying times, “there is no love without electricity.” Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and l...

Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino return in 2022 with their luminous 10th studio album, El Mirador; a hopeful, kaleidoscopic beacon of rock...

Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music fr...

We can't think of many other performers like the singer / songwriter / dancer / actress Asha Puthli who have excelled in such a broad range of genr...

While music fans and press were busy catching up on the Turkish legacy of 70s rock and psychedelia, a very active and vibrant underground music sce...

African Voodoo, Manu Dibango’s rare and unknown treasure! 1971 : Manu Dibango records the precious album African Voodoo in line with its twin Afric...

A new week means yet another new compilation from Wagram. The French label has become expert at myriad different genres from staples like house and...

Ali Farka Toure is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard ...

Kosaya Gora (English translation; Oblique Mountain), a new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer / singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimenta...

The roots of JuJu started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and ...

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band,albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That i...

It’s only fitting that Khruangbin’s first ever official live releases would be double albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they ...

It’s only fitting that Khruangbin’s firstever official live releases would be double albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they l...

It’s only fitting that Khruangbin’s firstever official live releases would be double albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they l...

It’s only fitting that Khruangbin’s first-ever official live releases would be albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they love an...

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now calling Colorado home, Gregory Alan Isakov is a lifelong traveler, farmer, and Grammy-nominated folk ar...

The Circling Sun channel spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Colt...

Witch was the first band in Zambia to release a commercial album — 1973’s Introduction. Blending the rock and roll sounds of The Rolling Stones tog...

Fela Kuti (1938-1997) was a Nigerian musician, producer, arranger, political radical, outlaw and the originator of Afrobeat. A titanic musical and ...

Essential garage Zamrock/soul/funk: the official reissue of the celebrated band’s one and only album “The musical style that became known as Zamroc...