Kakuhan - LIVE 0 (excerpt)

Introducing The Early Bird Show - our radio offering for morning people, hosted by Maria Somerville (Mondays and Tuesdays), Spirit Blue (Wednesdays and Thursdays) and Jack Rollo (Fridays). Weekday mornings, 7-9am. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird/episodes/early-bird-smerz-18th-november-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Smerz 181124

Andy Palacio (1960-2008) of Belize was a brilliant singer/songwriter/bandleader/activist and one of the greatest champions of Garifuna culture in his time. At the height of his international acclaim, after the release of his 2007 album Watina, Andy died suddenly. This program was produced shortly before that tragic event and captures Andy, his band and fellow musician Paul Nabor, in their prime. As we were preparing the program for rebroadcast, we learned that Andy’s protégé and fellow Garifuna culture icon Aurelio Martinez—who also appears in this program—died in a plane crash at age 58. So this program, capturing a pinnacle moment for Garifina music, is dedicated to these two fallen giants. 

Produced by Banning Eyre
APWW #524

Remembering Andy Palacio and Aurelio Martinez

@violentquandonaime

Out August 15 on all streaming platforms.

I got a better idea, for the night
I think I got a better idea
follow me in your dreams tonight, yeah all night
I got a better idea, for the night
I think I got a better idea
follow me in your dreams tonight, yeah all night

Hmmm stalker !
Hmmm stalker !
Hmmm stalker !
Hmmm stalker !

Stalker !
Stalker !
Stalker !
Hmmm stalker !

I got a better idea, for the night
I think I got a better idea
follow me in your dreams tonight, yeah all night
I got a better idea, for the night
I think I got a better idea
follow me in your dreams tonight, yeah all night

Silence Extended

Stalker Guardian Angel (2nd mix)

helen island -stalker guardian angel (2nd mix)

New album out! https://bfan.link/deux-paradis-1

Bonjour Tristesse

Visiteur de la Nuit

'Soledad Sonora' (which translates to Sonorous Loneliness) presents a selection of contemporary artists and labels from the Mediterranean region working with the deconstruction of field recordings.

Tracklist:
unknown - unknown
Shams / Errorist - Nazehen
Sara Persico - Brutal Threshold
Alejandra and Aeron - Camapanas 5
B.Abbas & R.Abou-Rahme - Where have our beloved ones gone
Sukitoa o Namau - Good Boy
Yannis Kotsonis - Rotating Surfaces
Skander Jaïbi - I
Experiment#508 - hypnagogic distress
Abdellah M. Hassak - Carnival in Casbah
Rédha M - موجة هيرتزعلى الطريق الحارقة
Sono Mayrit - Viaje del Agua #1
Shadwa Ali - Requiem For a Grief
Marco Paltrinieri - Infinitive Being
Sono Mayrit - Viaje del Agua #2

sono mayrit - aguaespejo: Soledad Sonora, Radio Alhara, 31.07.2025

Ata Kak's first new song in over 30 years!

Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. While it barely made a ripple at the time of its release in 1994, the cassette found a new life online in 2006. A not-so-underground cult obsession grew after it appeared on  the blog Awesome Tapes From Africa as its very first post, a sort of manifesto for the project. His addictive amalgam of left-field electronic music and Twi-language hiplife reached surprising levels of awareness among music fans of many stripes. The mystery behind the musician’s identity grew. Eventually Yaw Atta-Owusu came out of the shadows, from his quiet home in Kumasi, to tour the world playing high-energy, sweat-soaked performances at major festivals like Glastonbury, Sónar and Pop Montreal. 

Now, for the first time since 1994, Ata Kak releases new music. Honed in studios around Kumasi over the last several years, the songs feature the rapper-singer’s acrobatic rap, signature scatting, dramatic drums and even traditional Akan harp. The compositions are more ambitious than his earlier work, with more complex arrangements and layered harmonies. Ata Kak’s new songs are also the natural expression of a restless artist—he is a prolific poet and author of a half-dozen books, as well as an active gardener and busy painter. 

Born in Ghana in 1960, Ata Kak wasn’t always involved in music. But his travels and openness to the world lead him into the music industry. While living in Germany, he was invited to play drums in a reggae band and subsequently played in highlife bands in Ontario after moving to the Toronto area. He recorded “Obaa Sima” there at his home studio and released it in Ghana in 1994. He didn’t participate in music much in the intervening years until “Obaa Sima” was reissued in 2015. He started performing his song live with the help of a brilliant cast of London-based musicians and has toured three continents and played to thousands of fans in venues of all kinds.

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Yasi Town

After Bobby Williams - Nina (EP) is the first release from Montuno & Oplik.
Recorded, produced, and mixed in Berlin from November 2023 to November 2024
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After Bobby Williams - Parallel

LIGHTER DANCE W/ KEMARR 110925

KARMA MOFFETT 
Ocean Bowls
KARMA MOFFETT 
Sitting Still Within
KARMA MOFFETT 
Golden Bowls Of Compassion
KARMA MOFFETT 
Birth of Padma
KARMA MOFFETT
Himalayan Bells II

NTS Show 63

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio January 4th 2020

Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti. 