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Rodrigo y Gabriela
Impish Gabriela Quintero and roguish Rodrigo Sanchez have successfully made the transition from the heavy metal scene in Mexico City to the folk-rock-jazz world of Ireland. Their three acoustic CDs and live performances make them worthy inheritors of...
Ba Cissoko
Few kora players handle the twenty-strings of this emblematic West African instrument as well as Ba Cissoko and his three fellow-Guineans. The young artist and his two cousins have left their native Conakry for the French port of Marseille where they...
Yé Lassina Coulibaly
Yé Lassina Coulibaly is first and foremost a creative artist, stemming from the Bamaman cosmogony. He is curious and attentive to contemporary musical forms, and he has reinvented African music in its ancestral richness. He has also multiplied meetings...
Ray Lema
From a very young age Ray Lema loved to mix things up. The son of a very Protestant family, he entered the catholic seminar aged 11, intending to become a priest. There a Belgian monk led him to discover music. The little boy showed talent and became a...
Watcha Clan
When a mediterranean tribe flirts with the London dancefloor - Ragga, Electro, Jungle, Arabian and Spanish music.
Fanga
The French septet was born in 2001, the brainchild of rapper Korbo, from Burkina Faso, and programmer Serge Amiano. Fanga translates as “spiritual force” in Dioula, and the band has rooted its power in classic Afrobeat, remodelled with samples,...
Spoek Mathambo
Nthato Mokgata aka 24 year old rapper/DJ/graphic designer Spoek Mathambo is one of the top names on South Africa’s progressive club scene, having fronted electro-rap outfits Sweat X and Playdoe. With a fast-rising international profile, Spoek...
Hollie Cook
Hollie Cook is the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook and Bodysnatchers singer Jennie Matthias, and became a professional singer (with The Slits) before finishing school. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2011.
L'Attirail
"Attirail (noun): a collection of objects needed for a certain use". It is clearly not in the dictionary that a precise definition of L'Attirail may be found. In any case, does a definition even really exist ? L'Attirail's music is not the sort to be...
Tom Zé
Antonio Jose Santana Martins was born, as he likes to say, 500 years ago in the little town of Irara in the province of Bahia, which is 1936 for everyone else. The son of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, Bobby Lapointe's younger brother, Frank Zappa's...
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