“Yemaya” takes a Bahia swim beside a red warning flag and an encounter with Iémanja. Out 9 January 2026, second single from at my softest, i am most dangerous.
#MélissaLaveauxx #Haiti #France #AfroHaitian #Iémanjaa
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“Yemaya” takes a Bahia swim beside a red warning flag and an encounter with Iémanja. Out 9 January 2026, second single from at my softest, i am most dangerous.
#MélissaLaveauxx #Haiti #France #AfroHaitian #Iémanjaa
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Jamaica, Queens-based NESTA strips "Worthwhile" back to voice and Hector Roots Lewis’ guitar, linking roots reggae phrasing, lovers rock writing and contemporary R&B touches in a focused acoustic version
#NESTA
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Jamaica, Queens-based NESTA strips "Worthwhile" back to voice and Hector Roots Lewis’ guitar, linking roots reggae phrasing, lovers rock writing and contemporary R&B touches in a focused acoustic version
#NESTA
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Nubiyan Twist link with The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown on Red Herring, a hip hop and jazz edged single from their fifth album Chasing Shadows on Strut Records.
#NubiyanTwist #RedHerring #BootieBrown
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Nubiyan Twist link with The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown on Red Herring, a hip hop and jazz edged single from their fifth album Chasing Shadows on Strut Records.
#NubiyanTwist #RedHerring #BootieBrown
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French trio Mafia Matou teams with balafon player Jonas Chirouze on Vida, as Tatiana Valenzuela sings in Spanish over electro cumbia, reggae dub and tropical bass.
#MafiaMatou #Vida #France #Cumbia #Dub #Tropical
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French trio Mafia Matou teams with balafon player Jonas Chirouze on Vida, as Tatiana Valenzuela sings in Spanish over electro cumbia, reggae dub and tropical bass.
#MafiaMatou #Vida #France #Cumbia #Dub #Tropical
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Choquemanta, the project of Argentine musician and producer Luciano Ramos, reworks Paca y Emérita as an instrumental cumbia cut with vintage analogue organs, dub-weighted bass and a parallel Rub a Dub version for DJs.
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Choquemanta, the project of Argentine musician and producer Luciano Ramos, reworks Paca y Emérita as an instrumental cumbia cut with vintage analogue organs, dub-weighted bass and a parallel Rub a Dub version for DJs.
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Paris and Abidjan sessions via Wetakeoff Camp. Yoruba vocal from Victorya Makinde, with “Mabo” (“come”) repeated as the hook. Wetakeoff’s debut album WEFLY is due next.
#Wetakeoff #VictoryaMakinde
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Paris and Abidjan sessions via Wetakeoff Camp. Yoruba vocal from Victorya Makinde, with “Mabo” (“come”) repeated as the hook. Wetakeoff’s debut album WEFLY is due next.
#Wetakeoff #VictoryaMakinde
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Wellington producer ZHERAV turns his club setup toward NAJA, a Batov Middle Eastern Grooves 45 built from programmed drums, looping bass and guitar lines shaped by Middle Eastern scales
#ZHERAV #NAJA #NewZealand #MiddleEasternGrooves
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Wellington producer ZHERAV turns his club setup toward NAJA, a Batov Middle Eastern Grooves 45 built from programmed drums, looping bass and guitar lines shaped by Middle Eastern scales
#ZHERAV #NAJA #NewZealand #MiddleEasternGrooves
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Bogotá nine-piece La Pambelé turn Eliseo Herrera’s La Burrita into one-take salsa brava, with vocals from Miguel Rebolledo and Lorena Contento over a full percussion and horn section
#LaPambele #LaBurrita #Colombia #Salsa
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Bogotá nine-piece La Pambelé turn Eliseo Herrera’s La Burrita into one-take salsa brava, with vocals from Miguel Rebolledo and Lorena Contento over a full percussion and horn section
#LaPambele #LaBurrita #Colombia #Salsa
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From Mbour to Stuttgart, Aldiana Fall’s Giaar music links live djembe, dundun and xhin with Wolof lyrics on "Nit ku bakh", extending the line set by "Touba" and "Lamp A Tak Bamba Fégn".
#AldianaFall #NitKuBakh #Senegal
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From Mbour to Stuttgart, Aldiana Fall’s Giaar music links live djembe, dundun and xhin with Wolof lyrics on "Nit ku bakh", extending the line set by "Touba" and "Lamp A Tak Bamba Fégn".
#AldianaFall #NitKuBakh #Senegal
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Brussels producer Kunyai links deep and organic house on "Kiriyo", his first release for Cascade Records, built on layered percussion and African vocal lines.
#Kunyai #Kiriyo #Belgium #OrganicHouse
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Brussels producer Kunyai links deep and organic house on "Kiriyo", his first release for Cascade Records, built on layered percussion and African vocal lines.
#Kunyai #Kiriyo #Belgium #OrganicHouse
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At RAK Studios in London, Mulatu Astatke revisits "Tezeta" as a piano, sax and cello trio during the Mulatu Plays Mulatu sessions, stripping one of his key Ethio-jazz pieces back to its core
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At RAK Studios in London, Mulatu Astatke revisits "Tezeta" as a piano, sax and cello trio during the Mulatu Plays Mulatu sessions, stripping one of his key Ethio-jazz pieces back to its core
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Songwriting-camp track linking Strand, rural Eastern Cape and Cradock, with vocals over an Afro-pop and folk-centred arrangement.
#IveeSoul #MishyKope #MandilakheIkhaya #Welela #SouthAfrica
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Songwriting-camp track linking Strand, rural Eastern Cape and Cradock, with vocals over an Afro-pop and folk-centred arrangement.
#IveeSoul #MishyKope #MandilakheIkhaya #Welela #SouthAfrica
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"Samt" (Arabic for “silence”) is the first single from Zagate.
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"Samt" (Arabic for “silence”) is the first single from Zagate.
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AfroQuiesa Orchestra from Quiesa, Italy open C'è Sempre Tempo Per l'Amore with "Marrageisha", six minutes of instrumental afro-funk linking Lagos afrobeat and Japanese video game patterns.
#AfroQuiesaOrchestra
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AfroQuiesa Orchestra from Quiesa, Italy open C'è Sempre Tempo Per l'Amore with "Marrageisha", six minutes of instrumental afro-funk linking Lagos afrobeat and Japanese video game patterns.
#AfroQuiesaOrchestra
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Kabusa Oriental Choir move from viral choir covers to original songs with "Detty December" on Snafu Records, turning Nigeria’s late-December rush into a choral track built on drums and bass for dancing.
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Kabusa Oriental Choir move from viral choir covers to original songs with "Detty December" on Snafu Records, turning Nigeria’s late-December rush into a choral track built on drums and bass for dancing.
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Naples and Tunisia meet on Hurriya (We Must Resist): Ziad Trabelsi on voice and oud, set inside drums, bass, guitar and synth. Afrobeat-derived rhythmic patterns under Arabic melodic phrasing, via Four Flies Records.
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Naples and Tunisia meet on Hurriya (We Must Resist): Ziad Trabelsi on voice and oud, set inside drums, bass, guitar and synth. Afrobeat-derived rhythmic patterns under Arabic melodic phrasing, via Four Flies Records.
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ABI Afrobeat share Yamoléma: a seven-piece built around bass, two guitars, drums, percussion, trombone, and alto and baritone sax, with batucada and Afro-Cuban rhythm detail inside a classic afrobeat set-up
#ABIAfrobeat
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ABI Afrobeat share Yamoléma: a seven-piece built around bass, two guitars, drums, percussion, trombone, and alto and baritone sax, with batucada and Afro-Cuban rhythm detail inside a classic afrobeat set-up
#ABIAfrobeat
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NYC 9-piece Zemog El Gallo Bueno release “Mania” from ¡Ya Tú Sabes! U All Reddy Noe. (5 Dec, Pinch Records). Built through Abraham Gomez-Delgado’s “composing backwards” process, cutting improvs into final charts
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NYC 9-piece Zemog El Gallo Bueno release “Mania” from ¡Ya Tú Sabes! U All Reddy Noe. (5 Dec, Pinch Records). Built through Abraham Gomez-Delgado’s “composing backwards” process, cutting improvs into final charts
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A Berroche-based single from Colombia’s Magdalena River, led by tambores and featuring guitar from Tapha Gaye. Released via Astar Artes.
#JorgeAguilarYSusEmbelecos #EresTuMiRosa #Colombia #Berroche
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A Berroche-based single from Colombia’s Magdalena River, led by tambores and featuring guitar from Tapha Gaye. Released via Astar Artes.
#JorgeAguilarYSusEmbelecos #EresTuMiRosa #Colombia #Berroche
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Tank & the Bangas bring poetry & performance together on Poetry On A Porch, turning The Thing About Falling into sound w/ Dawn Richard as guest
#TankAndTheBangas
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Tank & the Bangas bring poetry & performance together on Poetry On A Porch, turning The Thing About Falling into sound w/ Dawn Richard as guest
#TankAndTheBangas
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Pajarita De Papel sets a Lorca sonnet for voice, flamenco guitar, cello and flute on Sonetos del Amor Oscuro’s Zephyrus album Vol. 1: El Sueño Se Deshizo Para Siempre.
#SonetosDelAmorOscuro #Belgium
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Pajarita De Papel sets a Lorca sonnet for voice, flamenco guitar, cello and flute on Sonetos del Amor Oscuro’s Zephyrus album Vol. 1: El Sueño Se Deshizo Para Siempre.
#SonetosDelAmorOscuro #Belgium
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"The Great Mali" as a unifying anthem, sung by Socha Socha and written by Salimata Traoré with Yohann Le Ferrand. Songhai wedding rhythm from northern Mali, pushed through a rock band set-up.
#Yeko #Maliba #Mali #Songhai #Rock
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At WOMEX in Tampere, OOPUS break down how Estonian bagpipes, acid lines and Folktronica stages led to new album Reivlender, today’s single Sissejuhatus and a different future for club folk.
#OOPUS
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At WOMEX in Tampere, OOPUS break down how Estonian bagpipes, acid lines and Folktronica stages led to new album Reivlender, today’s single Sissejuhatus and a different future for club folk.
#OOPUS
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Touba brings together live djembe, dundun and xhin with Wolof lines addressed to Serigne Abdoul Karim Mbacke, echoing Mouride devotional patterns shaped during Fall’s upbringing in Mbour.
#AldianaFall #Touba #Senegal #GiaarMusic
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Touba brings together live djembe, dundun and xhin with Wolof lines addressed to Serigne Abdoul Karim Mbacke, echoing Mouride devotional patterns shaped during Fall’s upbringing in Mbour.
#AldianaFall #Touba #Senegal #GiaarMusic
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“Sale Marino” grew from a Bosphorus ferry crossing, pairing reverb-rich guitars, a jazz-tinged bassline and lyrics shaped by Istanbul’s pressures. Released on Six Degrees Records.
#UmutAdan #Zebanis #SaleMarino
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“Sale Marino” grew from a Bosphorus ferry crossing, pairing reverb-rich guitars, a jazz-tinged bassline and lyrics shaped by Istanbul’s pressures. Released on Six Degrees Records.
#UmutAdan #Zebanis #SaleMarino
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