Tsonga Dance Mixtape

Tsonga Dance Mixtape

The high speed lo-fi music from South Africa called Shangaan Electro came to the ears of a wider global public with the release of a compilation in 2010 and due to its insane dance style. Created by Nozinja (watch him in the video below) this music style combines...
Voodoohop: Entropia Coletiva I

Voodoohop: Entropia Coletiva I

Outstanding compilation from São Paulos cultural underground activists of Voodoohop collective. Here is what they say: “VOODOOHOP is an outlandish art collective born from a series of underground parties. Djs, performers, dancers and visual artists together...
Èkó Afrobeat

Èkó Afrobeat

Èkó Afrobeat is one more excellent Afrobeat band coming out of Brazil where the renaissance of this music style seems not coming to an end. Created in 2009 with the name “Clube de Bolso Afrobeat” as a parallel project of a Jazz-Funk band they re-named...
Thiago França – Sambanzo: Coisas Invisíveis

Thiago França – Sambanzo: Coisas Invisíveis

Thiago França from São Paulo plays saxophone with Metá Metá among many other projects. On his last album “Coisas Invisíveis” (Invisible Things) with his solo project “Sambanzo” he created a great minimal but rhythm fueled mix of just...
Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra – Abra Sua Cabeça

Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra – Abra Sua Cabeça

The second album of the Abayomy Afrobeat Orchestra is less Afrobeat than its predecessor exploring new sound elements and speaking of ancestry with delicacy of who perceives the world of possibilities and combinations. There is greater diversity of influences that...
Alabê Ketujazz

Alabê Ketujazz

From the press release on their website: “Alabê presents the traditional percussion of the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé in a jazz context. The compositions are dialogues between the percussion of the Ketu nation and the saxophone, like the Rum (the...
Frevotron

Frevotron

DJ Dolores, Maestro Spok and Yuri Queiroga deliver a pioneering experience with this album which succeeds in the difficult mission to innovate Pernambucos uptempo carnival style called Frevo. Initially planned as a instrumental project they came up with inviting Otto,...