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CULTURE MUSIC BEATING HEART The Beating Heart project opens the largest archive of African field music in © Atong Atem the world to artists like M.A.X., Coen, That Global Sound Kidnap Kid and Throwing Shade. Prof- From Brazilian rap to African field music samples, its go back to the communities where the music came from, and have already our music editor cherry-picks a mixtape of new world music funded school meals in Malawi and the Women’s Legal Centre in South Africa. WORDS OISIN LUNNY www.beatingheartproject.com Photo by Hugh Tracey © ILAM GATO PRETO Producer Lee Bass and rapper/singer Gata Misteriosa, aka the unstoppable Afrofuturist duo Gato Preto, built their name through explosive high energy Photo by Alexander Wurm live performances. Expect deep bass from Lee, Portuguese lyrical fire from Gata, and the “djembe power” of Mous- ALSARAH & THE NUBATONES sa Diallo. Not one to be missed. Alsarah is a singer, songwriter, bandleader and practitioner of Nubian/Sudanese www.gatopretomusic.com inspired East-African Retro-Pop music. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, she relocated to Yemen with her family but is now resident in Brooklyn, NY. Alsarah’s brilliant albums are also notable for their superbly curated remix companion releases. www.alsarah.com © Hassan Hajaj © Photo by Mariana Zarpellon Mariana by Photo Photo by Juliette Abitbol Photo by Kyle Weeks FATOUMATA DIAWARA KAROL CONKÁ PETITE NOIR T S H E G U E AMADOU & MARIAM Rightly hailed as one of the most vital Brazilian rapper Karol Conká started The Noirwave movement was created Paris-based TSHEGUE are picking up a Soul mates Amadou Bagayoko and standard-bearers of modern African her career aged 17 by participating in her by South Africa’s Petite Noir and cre- lot of heat, particularly their nonchalant Mariam Doumbia first met as children music, singer, actor and social activist school music competition. She slayed, ative director RhaRha, with its roots in French-Congolese frontwoman Faty Sy at Mali’s Institute for the Young Blind Fatoumata Diawara took her artistry to obviously. A few years later her smash music but its vision fixed firmly on the Savanet. “Muanapoto”, in which a deaf and later married and began recording thrilling heights on her stunning new debut album Batuk Freak, produced by creative future. Against a backdrop of and mute young girl negotiates her way together. Over the next three decades album FENFO. Check out her funky Nave, was released on highly respected international anxiety around borders, out of a world of silence, was written they have picked up a global following, Disclosure collab “Ultimatum” and give Brighton-based label Mr Bongo. Karol Noirwave offers a citizenship which re- about her experience of emigrating to supporting U2, Coldplay and Blur along FENFO a spin at your next dinner party. continues to slay with her lyrical fire. joices in freedom of movement, physi- Paris from her native Democratic Re- the way. Their sound of true love has On repeat. www.karolconka.com cally and creatively. PHOENIX approves. public of Congo aged 8. won them a dedicated fan base. Photo by Aida Muluneh www.fatoumatadiawara.com www.petitenoirmusic.com www.facebook.com/Tshegue www.amadou-mariam.com 196 197.