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Tuesday, Jan 1 2019, 6PM
Prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor. Uwaifo is famous for his joromi music.
Gabacho Maroc is a Franco-Hispano-Moroccan group based in France and Spain, whose musical style merges Moroccan music Gnawa influences, African music, and jazz.
Patato, was a Cuban born American conga player. In 1954 he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He invented and patented the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US.
Sugar Minott, Michigan and Smiley, Willie Williams, Lone Ranger had all grown up listening to the classic Studio One music of the 1960s and were able to pay the greatest compliment to the label by creating the defining new music of this new era with songs that combined all the musical and technological developments of the 1970s dub, deejaying, discomixes, syndrums, synthesizers and more into the sound of the future: Dancehall.
Meiju Suvas, is a Finnish singer. Suvas has recorded several Finnish versions of international songs. Some of the most successful ones are "Viet itsekontrollin" (1984), originally "Self Control" by Laura Branigan, and "Pure mua" (1992), a cover of a Lalo Rodríguez song "Ven, devórame otra vez"
France. ‘François’ is a track dedicated to the one and only Francois de Roubaix, legendary film score composer, jazz aficionado and one of the duo’s biggest French influences. A delectable slice of 100 bpm instrumental boom bap, built around a seriously infectious jazz-funk groove, and chopped-up vocals.
Producer-songwriter Alexandre Kassin plays with those Brazilian/anti-Brazilian elements throughout his new album. The intricate arrangements demonstrate Kassin's mastery of modern music production and manipulation: it's a sort of Quentin Tarantino-like knowingness that makes the art both of and separate from the pop music it resembles.
Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of afrobeat Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome Kuti.
Emmanuel Jal is a South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor, former child soldier, and political activist. His autobiography, War Child: A Child Soldier's Story, was published in 2009.
A Tribe Called Kotori creates a place of spirituality. At the Berlin based gatherings forward thinking music and psychedelic art installations coalesce into an electric atmosphere.
A rare 1965 trio recording by piano legend Dom Salvador. Features Edson Lobo (bass) and Victor Manga (drums). The greatest jazz album to come out of Brazil! Dom Salvador, born in 1938 as Salvador da Silva Filho, worked in a series of bossa jazz combos and professionally backed top-name artists such as Elis Regina, Jorge Ben, and Edu Lobo.
Introducing... Ruben Gonzalez is the second studio album by Cuban pianist Ruben Gonzalez. It was recorded at EGREM studios in Havana, Cuba, during April 1996, as the last of the sessions that also yielded the albums A Toda Cuba le Gusta and Buena Vista Social Club.
Oby Onyioha is a Nigerian singer and songwriter best known for her smash debut single, I Want To Feel Your Love which was widely successful in the 1980s in Nigeria.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Mauskovic Dance Band combines elements of cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, & space disco in equal measure to create a unique hypnotic groove.
One of South East London's most closely guarded secrets has recently emerged from the shadows and is set to take the music industry by storm. Known only as TroyBoi, this multi-talented musician specialises in extraordinarily unique, versatile, and highly musical tracks that fuses various textures from multiple genres and brands it as 'My Style'.
Damily is a tsapiky musician, born in Tongobory, Madagascar in 1968. His band, founded in the 1980s, bears his name.
Almost eradicated during the time of the Khmer Rouge, the psychedelic sounds of Cambodia live on in the memory of survivors and exiles as cherished treasures of a lost past. This Rough Guide celebrates the mind bending music from the 1960s and 1970s, with some of the best known artists of the day including Sin Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron alongside dynamic revival bands Dengue Fever and The Cambodian Space Project.
Jazz Raga is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label. Jazz Raga is a classic for its barrier-breaking invention and startling creativity.
Although the definitive version is Stevie, and he’s a musical genius! I must tell you that I love Jose’s rendition (cover) of this song. He gives it that Rio Copa Cabana feel.
Beni Mellal, Morocco. Moulay Ahmed ElHassani is practically unknown outside of his home country of Morocco where he's released over 50 albums on cassette and CD over the past 30 years.
The creative woman Betina Bager has started up as a producer among all the other things she is doing. She is the sister of label owner and producer Kenneth Bager, and through Music for Dreams she has now released 2 Ep's. When Betina is not making music she works with fashion and life style by doing interior decoration and fashion items.
Scroobius Pip, is an English spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single 'Thou Shalt Always Kill'.
Ethiopian keyboard and accordion luminary, based in Washington, DC.
The missing component in the history of Turkish pop and one of the earliest exponents of Turkish electronic music alongside Ilhan Mimaroglu and Bulent Arel, Gokçen Kaynatan electrified the rock and roll scene of the late 50s/early 60s, sending teenagers wild with his custom built guitars and back lines helping charge the climate for the birth of Anatolian rock.
Yelle is a French band founded by lead singer and namesake Yelle and GrandMarnier. A third member, Tepr, joined the band before the recording of their debut album. Yelle and GrandMarnier began working on music together in 2000.
Sarolta Zalatnay is a Hungarian pop singer. In 2004, she was sentenced for three years for tax fraud. She served 16 months, and was released on parole in 2006. She Came From Hungary! 1960s Beat Girls From The Eastern Bloc = Feisty freakbeat, folk rock, funky pop and more from Hungary’s foremost female recording stars backed by some of the nation’s leading beat bands.
Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger considered as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music.
Paris, France. Florian Pellissier Quintet journey through jazz from Paris to New York. A rule of the game is to find the flavor of New Yorkers groups from the 60’s to mix with European musicians of the time. A sax, trumpet, piano, bass and drums, no artifice, a simple sound, acoustics and especially Pierre Dachery, the sound engineer magical ears.
Cesaria Evora, GCIH was a Cape Verdean vocalist and recording artist. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was also known as the "Queen of Morna".
Dennis Brown was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae.