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Moonlight Benjamin: Simido MACASE 26 / € 8,95 / 3760288800439 / label: Ma Case Prod. / format: CD / Haiti – Vaudou Following on from the international success of 2018’s album Siltane (MACASE 25 / € 8,95 / 3341348434544 / label: Ma Case Prod. / fomat: CD), Haitian singer Moonlight Benjamin returns with her new album Simido. Continuing where her previous album left off, Moonlight's thunderous and rebellious vocals reverberate throughout; underpinned by Matthis Pascaud’s driven, rock sensibilities. Simido is a product of two years of intensive touring, performing night after night, sharing music during the long journeys on the tour bus and bonding over a mutual love of Arctic Monkeys. Lyrically, the set revolves around Moonlight's hopes and fears for Haitian people who have endured so many challenges in recent times. Listen.

Malou Beauvoir: Spiritwalker MBCD 2018 / € 10,95 / 0700261481012 / label: Malou Beauvoir / format: CD / Haiti – Vaudou On 'Spiritwalker' Malou Beauvoir communes with and for the spiritual traditions of her island heritage. The album is at once a celebration of the Vaudou spirits that embody and enrich the culture of Haiti, as well as a conveyance of their message of peace and awakening to the world at large. Beauvoir’s music is a rich blend of Haiti’s folk traditions and a compelling weave of contemporary influences, melding soulful melodies, hip hop grooves and virtuosity. The songs – a blend of original compositions, traditional folk tunes and beloved popular Haitian songs – convey a powerful message of acceptance and community at a time of turmoil in Haiti and polarization around the globe. Listen to a track.

Melingo: Oasis BUDA 860359 / € 11,05 / 3341348603599 / label; Buda Musique / format: CD / Argentina – Tango A mythical figure on the Argentine rock scene, recently reinvented as exponent of wild and embittered tango, this singer, clarinetist and composer is a living kaleidoscope. Since the late 1970s, steering between pop, rock, dub, classical, folklore and tango, he has burned his way through both ends of several lives. Since 2014 he has created the story of Linyera: an alter-ego, a pretext for a journey to the origins of tango and of his own family tree, of which Oasis is the final part of a trilogy. Daniel Melingo, Argentinean of Greek descent, an artist fed on poetry and cinema, himself an actor, author of eighteen albums, was born in 1957 in the Buenos Aires district of Parque Patricios, a mythical place for tango. Listen.

Lolomis: Red Sonja BUDA 860357 / € 11,05 / 3341348603575 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / – Balkan As refined dreamers, facetious or fragile heroines, powerful shamans, impetuous young women or seasoned seductresses, these warriors of everyday life draw us into their combat and propel us into the world of love, life and death. The spirit of Red Sonja's "Guerrière Rouge” (“Red Warrior”) is inspired by the eponymous heroine born in a 1930s science fiction short story. The linguistic tour — Bulgarian, Georgian, Serbian, Romani, Macedonian, Ladino — deploys a thousand sounds and colours with twirling, intertwined harps and flutes responding to electronic creations on a base of tribal warrior percussion. Listen to a track.

HCM Petra Micky a Jiri Hradil: Hruba Hudba 2664513 / € 13,95 / 8595026645134 / label: Indies Scope / format: 2CD / Czech Republic – Folk Two recordings, two worlds, one music and endless passion. Music as a link between time that connects tradition and present. The first one is the view of musician Jiri Hradil on traditional Hornak music, its connection with other genres and at the same time developing towards contemporary music worlds. The second one reflects the expressions of the Hornacko music folklore not only from the perspective of the artist's age, but above all from the point of view of the continuous singing (and music) tradition, which through older bearers is transferred to other generations and resonates with its old-world interpretation.

Jola: Hidden Music In Brussels MP 12 / € 11,95 / 5425015559148 / label: Muziekpublique / format: CD / Belgium – Gnawa With some forty Gnawa musicians currently resident here, Brussels may legitimately be called the Gnawa capital of . Now, for the first time after twenty years of living in Belgium, Jola brings them together in an album that reflects the world of the Gnawa of Brussels. The tracks on this album provide a space for young musicians to sit alongside venerable masters initiating dialogue and responding within extended musical conversations. Listen to a track. Xango Music Distribution Release #5 – 2020 Pagina | 1

Pulled By Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways GBCD 88 / € 10,45 / 4030433608821 / label: tak:til-Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / England – Fusion GBLP 88 / € 13,45 / 4030433608814 / label: tak:til-Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / England – Fusion There’s the glittering list of collaborations that includes Patti Smith, Brian Eno and David Byrne, the trailblazing (post-) jazz strangeness of Polar Bear, the drumming and producing for Sons of Kemet, of which he was a founding member, the film soundtrack work (on Chris Morris’s latest, among others) and, as we move into the new decade, there’s … well, what is this exactly? How many Seb Rochfords are there? But let’s take refuge in facts for a moment: Rose Golden Doorwayswas recorded in The Old Church in Stoke Newington, London and features, in addition to Rochford, Polar Bear comrade Pete Wareham on saxophone and Neil Charles (Zed-U, Empirical) on bass guitar. Listen.

Zea + Oscar Jan Hoogland: Summing MRCD 29 / € 8,95 / 7061251589617 / label: Makkum Records / format: CD / Netherlands – Improvisation MRLP 29 / € 12,45 / 7061252031849 / label: Makkum Records / format: LP / Netherland – Improvisation Singer and guitarist Arnold de Boer, alias Zea, plays together with the highly explosive, improvising electric clavichord wizard and pianist Oscar Jan Hoogland. De Boer writes songs that are taken apart by Hoogland. The resulting free space is filled with improvisation and poetry. Oscar Jan Hoogland is coming from the Dutch improvised music scene, he is adding and opposing a unique sound to Zea’s songwriting which makes their music tense, erratic, bold and high-spirited. Listen to a track.

Les Tziganes: Les Tziganes RMR 232 / € 10,95 / 8032584612326 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / – Gypsy A meeting of different sensibilities, six musicians who retrace the most involving melodies of Roma, Balkan, Klezmer, Salento and Neapolitan music. Les Tziganes with their debut album of the same name speak to us about a fantastic world in continuous fading, in a moment the legs find themselves dancing to the rhythm of a pizzica or a tammuriata. Listening to the stories of the Balkan people or the Jews of Eastern Europe you feel immersed in a dimension suspended between dream and movement. The unique and persuasive voice of the singer Vania Salvatore is the glue that gives each song a tone of hilarity, joy and serene melancholy. Listen.

Duoende: Rosa & Dimitri RMR 233 / € 10,95 / 8032584612333 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / Italy – Folk The encounter of two apparently distant sounds: classical and folk. Duoende is a gesture of love. It is the encounter of two apparently distant worlds: classical piano and diatonic accordion’s folk sound. Believing that their backgrounds share a very special core. For this reason they search for a common language. They aim to find a dialogue between their instruments not forgetting the different traditions and sensitivities. The title Rosa&Dmitri refers to folk Rosa Balistreri and classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich. “Who is Rosa and who Dmitri?”. Indeed, It doesn’t matter! Just one thing represents what they are today: Their common sound. Teaser.

De’Soda Sisters: Arrivera’ L’Estate? MASOCD 99148 / € 9,45 / 8012957991487 / label: Materiali Sonori / format: CD / Italy – Folk They choose a rather angry repertoire, of resistance and love, combining folk songs, which talk about resistance, social struggles, with songs they wrote, which tell experiences and struggles they are close to. The politics, the climate, the polluted sea, the collapsing bridges, the roads that don't hold up, the closed ports, the wave of violence, the lack of memory, ignorance, individualism... all this concerns them directly and indirectly. Changing one's life and mind is the most difficult thing, but perhaps today is the deepest revolution, the only way left for true freedom. Have a good revolution! Listen to a track.

Burruezo & Nur Camerata: Al Andalus S. XXI SATKCD 289 / 11,45 / 8435307609809 / label: Satelite K / format: CD / Spain – Arabo-Andalus A deep, evocative album, a journey from the medieval Andalusian peninsula to the most unclassifiable musical avant-garde. Burruezo is inspired by the world of Al Andalus, its mystics, its crossroads of cultures, its music... to launch a message of deep spiritual significance and a vindication of the peninsular Andalusian medieval past. It mixes the Sufi songs with the flamenco branches, the medieval airs with the Persian laments, the Andalusian perfumes with the Sephardic airs and the most exquisite pop... Listen.

Pygmees Efe Et Lese: Obe COLCD 140 / € 9,45 / 5419999000680 / label: Colophone Records / format: CD / Congo-D.R. – Traditional The Efe pygmies live in the Ituri region, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They live in contact with forest farmers groups, the Lese and the Mamvu. Hand clapping, interchoking sticks, cracked pieces of bamboo struck with a stick and Kuce drums are their usual percussion. The Luma whistle ensembles are mainly played by the Efe during collective celebrations. Efe quite often use Domu harps and Likembe. This last instrument is sometimes found very far in some the forest camps. Mouth bows are used by Lese and Efe men before the hunt, to trap the animals' minds or to make interludes when they tell of chantefables. Bark horns ensembles called Mai are played during Tore ceremonies. These horns are usually played by the Efe. Each horn gives a note and plays a rhythmic formula which intertwines with that of others to form a Hoquetus, in fact a polyrhythmic polyphony. The longest is about five feet and the shortest is thirty centimeters. They are rigorously tuned according to a pentatonic scale.

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Rena Rama: Live CAP 61004 / € 10,95 / 7391782610048 / label: Caprice Records / format: CD / Sweden – Jazz The album ‘Live’ by Swedish jazz group Rena Rama was recorded in November 1975 at the Stockholm jazz club Fasching. Rena Rama, today legends, became one of the most important bands on the Swedish jazz scene in the 1970’ and 1980’. On this live recording we discover Rena Rama in a transition period, experimenting and exploring new sounds. Rena Rama adopted ingredients for its music from outside the pure jazz tradition developing a new form of jazz with influences from traditional African folk music, Indian music and songs from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Mikko Pettinen Why Not: Two Suites For Change ECD 2019101 / € 14,45 / 0194491543709 / label: Eclipse Music / format: 2CD / Finland – Fusion ELP 201917 / € 21, 45 / 1944915437096 / label: Eclipse Music / format: 2LP / Finland – Fusion Mikko Pettinen (known from groups like UMO and Higher Ground Vocals) formed his latest group Why Not in the fall of 2018 with multi-instrumentalist Joakim Berghäll, bassist Vesa Ojaniemi and drummer Tuomas Timonen. Why Not plays Pettinen’s compositions where acoustic jazz meets , electronic tones, effects, loops and free improvisation. The compositions, which Pettinen states are "really honest and straight from the heart", are influenced by the state of the world: climate change, dystopia and nature. On the record, Pettinen wants to challenge both the listener and the band's musicians with some surprising time signatures. EXPECTED

David Linx: Skin In The Game (Book+CD) (Out on Friday March 20th, 2020) CR 297 / € 13,95 / 0194397095029 / label: Cristal Records / format: CD / Belgium – Jazz David Linx is arguably the inventor of the "European jazz singer", and he is, far beyond the European area, one of the most formidable jazz singers that can be heard. For this new opus of original compositions sung in English, he has brought together a combo of leaders with Gregory Privat on piano, Chris Jennings on double bass, Arnaud Dolmen on drums and luxury guest Manu Codjia on guitar. Between ballads and more rhythmic tracks, two songs embellished with poems by Marlon Moore add an extra colour to the album and remind us of the first sublime album made by David Linx with the writer James Baldwin in 1987.

Tamikrest: Tamotait (Out on Friday March 27th, 2020) GBCD 91 / € 10,45 / 4030433609125 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Mali – Touareg GBLP 91 / € 13,45 / 4030433609118 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Mali – Touareg Tamikrest return with a vivid, irrepressible rock and roll statement. Their most powerful album since 2013’s wildly acclaimed Chatma, Tamotaït finds the band not only turning up the volume, but also sharpening their meditative atmospherics and ruminations on the state of the Sahara and the world beyond. Features acclaimed Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra. Sometimes music is more than the notes played or the words sung. With the political situation so volatile and desperate in the Saharan ancestral lands from which Tamikrest come, this is more than an album. This is resistance. Listen to a track.

Orkesta Mendoza: Curandero (Out on Friday April 10th, 2020) GBCD 90 / € 10,45 / 4030433609026 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / USA-Mexico – Popular GBLP 90 / € 13,45 / 4030433609019 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / USA-Mexico – Popular Sergio Mendoza (also from Calexico) grew up on both sides of the US/Mexican frontier. On the band’s 3rd album, “Curandero,” his musical melding of that experience explodes from the speakers, boogaloo, cumbia, ranchera & rock’n’roll. Orkesta Mendoza found that; as soon as the songs began to flow for Curandero the stars seemed to align and everything was composed, recorded and mastered in just a few short months. The music flows as if it had been waiting to appear. It crosses and re-crosses that fluid border between Mexico and the United States, mixing rock and pop with ranchera and cumbia alongside snatches of mariachi horns. And hovering over everything is the spirit of ‘60s boogaloo. Border music without borders.

Santrofi: Alewa (Out on Friday April 24th, 2020) OHCD 34 / € 11,80 / 4015698213973 / label: Out Here Records / format: CD / Ghana – OHLP 34 / € 13,45 / 4015698762860 / label: Out Here Records / format: LP / Ghana – Highlife Santrofi’s debut album Alewa brings a new wave of fresh highlife rooted in the past with a knowledge of the future directly from the streets of Accra. Santrofi was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the source having played with Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band and has now formed his own band: Santrofi. Deeplyrooted in vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms. The influences range from the riveting fast-paced pulse of 70s dance-guitar highlife, or the other-worldly sound of Highlife funk to the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took across the globe. Listen to a track.

Fra Fra: Funeral Songs (Out on Friday April 24th, 2020) GBCD 89 / € 10,45 / 4030433608920 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Ghana – Traditional GBLP 89 / € 13,45 / 4030433608913 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Ghana – Traditional Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana, hypnotic kologo excursion, pulsing ercussion, and enraptured voices. Recorded 100% live and outdoors by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami). The fra fra trio is led by Small, a man who celebrates his diminutive size rather than seeing it as a lack. He picked the two-string Kologo ‘guitar' with dog-tags fastened at the head as rattles. Another hallmark of Fra Fra culture are the tiny bone mouth flutes that they actually call horns, since that is what they are made from. Xango Music Distribution Release #5 – 2020 Pagina | 3

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