We were saddened to hear that the remarkable singer Lhasa de Sela succumbed to breast cancer at age 37. Her performance at Symphony Space in the Fall of 2005 truly embodied our eclectic spirit, taking cues from Gypsy music, French cabaret, Mexican rancheras, and American country ballads. Listen to the concert here and find out why this explosive artist will be so deeply missed. <a title="theglobeandmail.com" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/lhasa-de-sela-her-songs-like-her-life-went-everywhere/article1420009/">Click here</a> to read an appreciation from Canda's Globe and Mail. The Boston Globe calls Lhasa "the ultimate global chanteuse" while the New York Daily News describes her music as combining "the lyricism of Tom Waits, the dark tones of Nick Cave and the sensuality of Kate Bush." Taking her cues from Gypsy music, French cabaret, Mexican rancheras and American country ballads, her music is explosive.
With violin, accordion, trumpet, tuba, sousaphone, theremin, bouzouki, piano and percussion backing the soaring and heartbreaking vocals of Nick Urata, DeVotchKa's sound is transcendent. For this special show, DeVotchKa play as a duo, spotlighting urgent and tragic vocals and classically trained violin.

El Desierto - Lhasa and DeVotchKa

Momo Wandel Soumah - Félenko Yéfé

video here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itHWoneN9Vc&list=PLMyB0zUdcYxB7i0bGf6NulWYtYfMjq7fS

Un petit aperçu des premiers titres produits au Maroc. 
Red Room Records Rabat Productions 2014
 Errance dans le port de Tanger
Guitares : Alexandre Bellando
Enregistrement Mixage Arrangement : Antoine Villette

Tanger Custom

MNKD

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power
Release date: April 24th 2015
Glitterbeat Records
www.glitterbeat.com

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba’s fourth album Ba Power (and his first for Glitterbeat Records) is a striking, career defining record marked by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Following two years of worldwide touring for the much heralded Jama Ko album, Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume and dynamics significantly and Bassekou’s masterful ngoni playing has achieved a new level of intensity that can only be called: afro-rock. Distortion and wah wah and propulsive rhythms are now the defining backbone of his songs and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko, more than ever serve as the passionate and perfect foil. This is not the same Ngoni Ba. This is indeed: Ba Power.

When asked what Ba Power means to him, Bassekou told us:
"Ba", in Bambara means "strong" or "great" and it also means "group.” I called the album Ba Power because I think the messages on it are very important and strong, and it is also definitely the album with the toughest sound I've ever made. I want these songs to grab as many people as possible.”

Without question Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba has revolutionized the sound and narrative possibilities of the ngoni, the lute-like instrument that is essential to Mali’s Griot culture. Griots are esteemed musician/storytellers whose lineage stretches back centuries. Bassekou was born into this resonant tradition but his relationship to it has been anything but static. From the beginning of his career, through his invention of a previously unheard repertoire built around the melodies and rhythms of four interlocking (and at times electric) ngonis, Bassekou has demonstrated his respect for the past by radically pulling it into the future. 

Ba Power contains all the swagger, precision and wide-eyed excitement that the title implies. It is the album where Bassekou’s music engages with the world in ways he could have only imagined 10 years before. It is the album where he confirms his status amongst the 21st centuries most relevant musical artists.

I think African music and culture deserve to be spread to the broadest audience possible.
That is what I want to accomplish with Ba Power.
--Bassekou Kouyaté


Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Siran Fen

Debut EP out on May 4th via Beating Drum / Tsunami-Addiction

Out now:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/yelliyelli_ep
Label shop : http://shop.beatingdrumrecords.com/

When Yelli Yelli was a young girl, her mother would often play her recordings of traditional Kabyle music. The songs seemed so mysterious, sung as they were, in a language that she couldn’t understand. But the music captivated her child-like imagination, bound together in a twin dance of melody and rhythm, the songs seemed to bring the voice of a whole people to her ear, planting a seed in her that would later bring her to explore the musical and cultural trace of her own origins. 

The years passed and the child grew up but she never forgot the voices of Kabylie that her mother had played her. Having recorded two Folk albums under the name of Milkymee and looking for new musical routes to take, she met songwriter and producer Piers Faccini and decided to delve, with his guidance, into the secret sounds of her childhood memories. 
And lo and behold, the branch bore fruit and out sprung the true voice of the child her grandfather used to call, Yelli Yelli or “young girl” in Kabyle. 

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Yelli Yelli - Yemma (From debut EP - out now)

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal - Samba Tomora

Mako Mady

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The Tel Aviv Session

Bamba

The Touré-Raichel Collective - Bamba

Discover more about 'Guzo' - http://realworldrecords.com/catalogue/guzo

Guzo is the debut release of young Ethiopian pianist Samuel Yirga. Against the odds, Samuel found his way to music school in Addis Ababa and despite still being in his 20s and only having left music school relatively recently, he has developed at a pace remarkable for someone of his age. He has gone on to become one of Ethiopia's most promising young musicians and composers and in recent years, Samuel has gained wider international recognition through his touring and recording with Ethio-fusion group Dub Colossus.

Samuel Yirga - The Blues Of Wollo (Dessye Mix)

Ali Farka Toure - Savane (AFF Edit)

Beating Drum is an Independent record label run by @Piers-Faccini.
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