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We dig daily and work with producers around the world to create and curate the sound of the Indian Ocean. These shows are carefully put together by our selectors to invoke the spirit of Babani.  

An unexpected seduction. An instinctive call where it is impossible to resist percussive and bewitching melodies.

Babani is the state of trance reached during a ceremony invoking ancestors’ spirits leading to a multigenerational gathering with a common denominator: The rhythms of the Indian Ocean helped by the ravane, this percussion instrument made of goat skin and which has its roots on the island of Mauritius.

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@stampthewax invites us to curate a Monday Morning Mixtape

https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/03/29/monday-morning-mixtape-344/

This mixtape is a depiction of how we would love a Monday morning to sound on any of the islands of the Indian Ocean and that we want to share to the world. Whether you’re on the beach, by a river, on a mountain, in your car or at work there’s a common need to feel positive vibes to start the week at your best.

It features some gems we've found while digging for music in the region and loaded with material that we're restoring for our re-issue catalogue. It also features an upcoming track from the label's Band, Babani Soundsystem.

Stream:
https://babani.streamlink.to/mmm

Photo: Karen Pang

Babani Records - Monday Morning Mixtape #344 • Stamp The Wax

Harab Album :
https://sibu.bandcamp.com/album/harab

Produced by Sibu
Mixed & Mastered by Sibu
Artwork by George Tsatsaragos

Nawwara

ZZK Records  presents “Burka”, the fifth single from Dat Garcia’s new record “Las Fuerzas Almadas”, to be released April 1st 2022.

Fusing music from the Middle East, electronica and hip-hop, “Burka” is a conceptual song in which Dat García plays with raw and direct rap lyrics, expressing a feeling widespread throughout Latin America.

The use of the burka has historically been a political act, from its enforcement to oppress bodies to its use as a symbol to assert rights. Femininities are unleashing the strength built up over centuries of oppression and holding up this symbol as a flag representing the struggle for their freedoms and for the women who are no longer here.

Dat García wants to put a stop to collective apathy, increasingly accentuating the activist side of her musical repertoire. Her songs speak of the violation of human, environmental and political rights, and the discrimination against anything different in general and against women and dissidences in particular.

This single is accompanied by a video in which Dat portrays a woman crucified on a stage, wearing a burka, her whole body covered by the garment except her mouth, with which she tells her story. She takes this main element that Islam uses to hide women as oppressive religious symbolism, with deep respect for those who choose to wear a headscarf, as Simone de Beauvoir did, making it the symbol of their struggle. This work is an exegesis of how religions have been the instruction manual for snuffing out women’s strength and creating patriarchal societies without respect for individual rights, while humanity passively observes, criticizes and comments but does nothing to change it.

“Burka” is out on March 4th 2022 worldwide.

Burka

Dat Garcia - Burka

The Dreamer is a Soulfull slow jam; a song to pause the day and float away on a warm mystic trip.
Lush Rhodes chords, a minimal pocked drums groove, and airy guitar licks backed by a deep bass creating the backdrop where yana flows her deep yet playfull vocals, the song feels like a journey with different stages channeling the moment that you realize that the things you expected to happen didn't exactly turn out to be what you thought it could be. Whether it's love, the future, or something else where you can be trapped inside an illusion.

Production: Kunuku (Olivier de Jong) & Yana Liza 
Instruments played & recorded by Kunuku & Yana Liza V
ocals: Yana Liza 
Mix & Master: Job André de la Porte (House of Kumu) 
Artwork: Melh Ghroum

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Yana Liza & Kunuku - The Dreamer

Globe-trotting and much loved DJ and producer Nickodemus, is back with his fifth album, "Soul & Science." Known in many circles worldwide for his own inimitable style rooted in the many cultures of New York City, Nickodemus mixes influences from the Latin, African, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, blending them with homegrown sounds like House, Disco, and Hip-Hop with style and finesse. This new album is no different in its genre and influence fluidity, taking listeners on a journey of self-discovery through Nico’s eyes, exploring the relationship between humanity and technology in a rapidly changing world, weaving together a vibrant tapestry of musical genres from his time spend criss-crossing the globe as an artist the last two decades. “Despite our fears of being taken over by evil-intelligent robots or imploding from our own internal turmoil, human beings endure, converting joy and pain into expressions of art. The voices on this album lead us to the realization: we share more in common with each other than modern media would like us to believe. It’s solid science!”, says Nico.  And like with every one of his albums album, the title track “Soul & Science” offers us a Hip Hop lyrical summary on the theme of the record. “Artificial Intelligence is irrelevant to my artistry.”, Malik Work rhymes, “I’m an outlier, true outsider, not the average. Can’t be computed and booted for data gathering.”

As is the case with every Nickodemus record, “Soul & Science” is a collaborative effort between old and new friends, recorded in his home studio / record room / memorabilia museum. “Plastic (A Bigger Name)” features NYC Queer icons The Illustrious Blacks who give voice to this stomping dancefloor anthem with an irresistible bassline. Called “Bed Stuy’s favorite creative couple” by the New York Times, The Blacks deliver a lyrical performance calling out the social media driven fakeness that’s taken over our world.

Sudanese purveyor of “East African Retro-Pop” Alsarah guests in a rare English performance on “Shadow Thief”, a disco get down inside the souk with a dissonant flute line and vocals metaphorically speaking on migration and human displacement. The album opener “La Noche” featuring Antonio Lizana is classic Nickodemus fare, with a deep Hip Hop groove & a modern twist on traditional Flamenco vocals describing the creative burst we get as artists out in nightlife. “Mama Tchipp” featuring Cameroonian vocalist Pat Kalla bangs straight into an uplifting African disco groove with an mega funky bassline from Jonathan Maron, Jungle Fire on Horns and longtime Wonderwheel affiliate and rising star Gitkin on guitar. Caribbean island hopping, we have the Carnaval inspired “No Puedo Parar” & “Rumba Tobacco y Ron” one of the last songs written by Puerto Rico’s late great star Hector “Tempo” Alomar (vocalist on the legendary Nickodemus/Quanrtic collaboration track “Mi Swing es Tropical”) – once again Quantic is on board writing the horns parts with vocals sung by Cuba’s own Haydee Soul, making it a one of a kind Puerto Rico meets Cuba collaboration.

From Latin America to North & West Africa, from the dance-floors of Europe to the gritty
homebase of New York City, "Soul & Science" is a celebration of the human spirit in all its multi-faceted glory as Nickodemus invites listeners to put down their phones, free their hands, be open to surprises and let loose on the dance-floor. The album is a reminder that, as emerging technologies continue to reshape our world, we must not forget the soulful, magical essence that makes us human.

Nickodemus - Knockin' (feat. Bad Colours & The Illustrious Blacks)

Insula from Reunion island presents a wide variety of gems from the Indian ocean and beyond while also showcasing his trademark Future Maloya/Maloyatech style !

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Babani Records presents Insula - 23 Juin 2023

A curation of Indian Ocean music for the 60 years of Phoenix Beer & opening of Season 7 of Kafe Kiltir Moris. 
Set played at L'Aventure du Sucre, Mauritius.


Tracklist :

Gael Horellou - Nature Boy
Darriana La Rebel - Protez Li
Nicolas Coyez - Kanelle
A4 - Ballad for Tatu
Johann Berby - Gro Marenn Dominik
Jerry Leonide - Soweto Children 
A4 - Ana
Maloya Jazz Xperianz - Dalonaz 
Lionkklash - Koz ar mwa
Nicolas Coyez - Doussmen 
Olivier Ker Ourio - Mangé pou le coeur
Olivier Ker Ourio - Kossassa
Hardy ek Zenfant Lakot - Rodrigues

Ayef - Kafe Kiltir Sezon 7 Opening Set (Babani Records)

Mystical Communication Service - The Trip

A Collection of Smooth Jazz Grooves featuring Saxophone

License

Friday Night Funk

Artifacts

Abeba Zeybekiko

Dele Sosimi's album 'You No Fit Touch Am' was released in 2015 to much universal acclaim. A perfect document of the lessons the keyboard master and vocalist learned in Fela Kuti's ranks during the 70s and 80s, but brought firmly up-to-date and with contemporary social comment as vital to the Afrobeat genre as any rhythm or instrument. This year Wah Wah 45s reveals the final four remixes to be taken from this hugely popular and influential project.
"You No Fit Touch Am Retouched 2" releases March 10, 2017 on Wah Wah 45s.
Preorder > http://bit.ly/2lwrTDs

Exclusive Premiere: Dele Sosimi "E Go Betta (DJ Khalab Remix)"

2nd single taken from Msafiri Zawose's upcoming album "Uhamiaji", due for release on 1 September 2017.
https://Soundway.lnk.to/Uhamiaji

Uhamiaji

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Msafiri Zawose - 'Pole Pole'

"Drawn towards Earth by echoes of Mandinka melodies, the human-amphibians from Sirius B pass on their astronomy and cosmogony secrets to their Dogon hosts. Secrets that no-one has been able to unlock to this day…"

"Attirés sur Terre par l’écho de la gamme Mandingue, les humano-amphibiens venus de Sirius B en profitèrent pour léguer à leurs hôtes Dogons des secrets d’astronomie et de cosmogonie. Qu’aujourd’hui encore, personne n’a pu percer..."

New album out oct 2020 

Recorded in Dec 2019 @Mikrokosm recording studio (Lyon-FR)

Composition, arrangement : Supergombo
Recorded and Mixed by Vincent Taurelle
Assistants : Nicolas Miral and Julien Jussey
Mastering : Chab
Label : Z production
Edition : PAG editions

Diffusé le 15 juin 2020.
Broadcasted on June 15th 2020.

Supergombo
› https://supergombo.bandcamp.com
› https://www.facebook.com/supergomboafrofunk/
› https://www.instagram.com/supergombo_afro_funk/?hl=fr
› https://soundcloud.com/supergombo

Z Production 
› http://www.zproduction.org/
› https://www.facebook.com/labelzproduction
› http://youtube.com/zproductionlabel
› https://www.instagram.com/z_production_officiel/

[PREMIERE] Supergombo - Sirius B (Z production)

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GЯEG invite Babani Records - 15 Décembre 2020

Pete from @onthecornerrecords invites us on his @worldwide-fm show.

"Christmas Eve drive time Pete On The Corner invites Babani Records. A label from the heart of the Indian Ocean, Mauritius. Label representative, Avneesh, shares with us their insight on their band, Babani Soundsystem which released recently on On The Corner and speaks about “Zoun – Lézard Vert”. An electric maloya album the label exhumed from 1983 in collaboration with Ziskakan."

Show: https://worldwidefm.net/show/pete-on-the-corner-with-babani-records/

Pete On The Corner invites Babani Records • Worldwide FM • DEC 2020

An unexpected seduction. An instinctive call where it is impossible to resist percussive and bewitching melodies.

Babani is the state of trance reached during a ceremony invoking ancestors’ spirits leading to a multigenerational gathering with a common denominator: The rhythms of the Indian Ocean helped by the ravane, this percussion instrument made of goat skin and which has its roots on the island of Mauritius.
Babani Records is the music label bringing together a collective of artists from around the world connected by a universal goal of fusing electronic sounds and music from the islands of the Indian Ocean.

Electronic beats and sound waves blend with traditional rhythms. It is a natural connection with the past with an eye on the future!

Babani Records - Monday Morning Mixtape #344 • Stamp The Wax

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