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Fernando TRZ – Origames

Fernando TRZ – Origames

Fernando TRZ is a multi instrumentalist, music producer and sound designer and graduated in Popular Piano and Graphic Design. He lives in São Paulo and is part of the bands Lavoura, Cérebro Eletrônico, Flavião, Retrofuturismo and the live art group A_Factory...

Zebrabeat Afro-Amazônia Orquestra

Zebrabeat Afro-Amazônia Orquestra

From their website: The Afro-Zebrabeat Amazon Orchestra mixtures and adds effects to the sound of guitarradas from Pará Sate with the percussive rhythm of Afrobeat. Based on an experimental mixture, Amazon Zebrabeat African Orchestra redimension the traditional music...

DJ Dolores – Banda Sonora – Música Para Filmes

DJ Dolores – Banda Sonora – Música Para Filmes

Compilation of tunes made for movie soundtracks from one of my favorite producers of Brazilian Electronic Music, DJ Dolores. Download for free from his website. From the inlet: "This is an albums with songs inspired in images from very different origins, from...

Sigauque Project

Sigauque Project

From their website: "The music of Maputo-based Sigauque Project takes most audiences by surprise. With musical influences spanning across the continent - from a new take on Marrabenta to Senegalese Mbalak and Nigerian Afro Beat, with some smooth sounding jazz thrown...

Bixiga 70 (2013)

Bixiga 70 (2013)

New album by Modern Brazilian Afrobeat pioneers Bixiga 70: Download for free. "The music is instrumental, but the message is clear. Bixiga 70 releases his second album: the groove became heavier, guitars and keyboards are now on the front line along with the brass;...

Estudio de Criação – An Homage to Jongo

Estudio de Criação – An Homage to Jongo

The project Estudio de Criação ("Studio of Creation") is a realization of the cultural group "Jongo da Serrinha". Jongo is a cultural manifestation of essentially rural Africans directly linked to African culture in Brazil. Aimed at an audience of young people and...

Las Rucas de Bahía Solano

Las Rucas de Bahía Solano

Las Rucas' objective is to recover the cultural heritage of Bahiá Solano in Chocó State, Columbia. It's a group that wants to present their indigenous musical expressions such as romances, aruyos, chigualos, gualis and rucas. 18 women are members of the group and they...

João Cassiano’s Nomade Riddims

João Cassiano’s Nomade Riddims

João Cassiano from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraiba state in Brazil, is busy as illustrator, DJ, percussionist and beatmaker since the 90s. He is working with the bands Real Futuro Antigo and Chico Correa Electric Band. His solo project is called Nomade Riddim and...

Combo X

Combo X

Combo X is the solo project of Nação Zumbi's Gilmar Bolla 8. Fresh Manguebeat mixed with other rhythms from Northeastern Brazil and innovative band of 10 people including two drummers. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/35114761" params="" width=" 100%"...

Dhamma Baby

Dhamma Baby

African Dope's Fletcher just released as Dhamma Baby a free album of "deep space dub music, subsonic rumblings, glitched out melodies and frequencies from other dimensions". Download [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/3984686" params="" width=" 100%"...

Iconili – Tupi Novo Mundo

Iconili – Tupi Novo Mundo

From their website: "Iconili is a Brazilian band from the city of Belo Horizonte composed by eleven musicians. Its instrumental compositions bring a peculiar mix of musical timbres, merged into an trancending atmosphere. Brasses, electric guitars, keyboards and...

Ben Charles – Carimbó Electro Seco

Ben Charles – Carimbó Electro Seco

MPB meets Reggae. The lyrics talk about love and ecology which is synthesized in the subtitle of the album: O Amor e a Esperança em Tempos de Aquecimento Global (Love and Hope in Times of Global Warming). Download

KiSemba Mixtape

KiSemba Mixtape

Mixtape of Semba and Kizomba, two native rhythms of Angola. The latter is similar to Zouk whereas the first has the same origins as Brazilian Samba. You hear a lot of elements known from Latin-Caribbean sounds reflecting the strong African influence and connection...

Cheny Wa Gune Quarteto – Jindji Jindji

Cheny Wa Gune Quarteto – Jindji Jindji

Using traditional Mozambican and modern instruments (bass, saxophone, drums, percussion) the Cheny Wa Gune Quarteto creates a powerful and energetic style which explores traditional and modern melodies and rhythms. Cheny Wa Gune mainly plays Timbila (or M’bila) which...

Criolo Doido – Singles, Parcerias e Raridades

Criolo Doido – Singles, Parcerias e Raridades

"The purpose of the compilation "Singles, partnerships and rarities" is to rediscover the lost path - once seen as a break - between the careers of today and the old Crioli Doido through partnerships, rarities and inaccessible tracks compiling them into a single...

Projeto CCOMA – Peregrino

Projeto CCOMA – Peregrino

"Born in the mountains of southern Brazil, the project of trumpet player Roberto Scopel and percussionist and producer Swami Sagara flirts with Latin rhythms, crosses oceans to get to Africa, in a corner of Morocco, among many stops. With these references in the...

Brazilian Bass Culture & Beyond

Brazilian Bass Culture & Beyond

Excellent and representative compilation from Brasil Music Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting talented Brazilian musicians.