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Following the extraordinary discovery of radio recordings thought to have been lost forever, Cesaria Evora’s new album Radio Mindelo has just been released. These twenty two tracks were recorded in the 1960s, when Cesaria was just 20 years old...
18/12/2008
Today’s Negritude
160 years. That’s how long it took after slavery was abolished in France before a black writer – Aimé Césaire – was given a state funeral, in the same way as Victor Hugo, Paul Valery or Colette. 40 years is how long it has taken since...
07/07/2008
Joyeux anniversaire, happy birthday, to us
It seemed obvious to us at the time that it was important to expose music from around this planet – a mission that the music industry seemed to have trouble conceding, mainly because they couldn’t stomach a technological revolution they had not...
10/03/2008
Kaneka music, a banner of identity for the Kanak people of New Caledonia
Kaneka-jazz, kaneka-fusion, kaneka-rap, kaneka-rock, kaneka-soul… These are the latest permutations of a genre born in the sparsely-populated archipelago of New Caledonia. This French territory - but for how long? - in the southwest Pacific is...
04/03/2008
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