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The short-list is in! Have a listen to our pick of the month's best world music tracks, and then vote for up to five of your favourite songs below. Your votes will determine the rankings for World Music Network's April Audio Chart - the ranking of each track will depend on how many votes each track receives.

Once you've submitted your vote, you'll be able to see the current status of each album. So vote now to choose your favourite artist, and to see how other listeners are rating them!

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Poll: April Audio Charts

Had really good fun making this remix. Hope you like it! 

Give it some <3 on hypem:
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Kygo
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Ed Sheeran & Passenger - No Diggity vs. Thrift Shop (Kygo Remix)

No mastering, no restoration......Raw in your face!
Enjoy the impact !!

(Share with friends, spread the word, forward to loved ones, download to your ipod .......enjoy !!! )

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Analog Africa Selection Vol.3 (2013) Download it, Share it, forward it

Available on iTunes 
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BTSTU

BTSTU (Edit Clean)

Vinyl 12"

Sumo Brothers - I Love Music (Umoja Edit)

Etta James 7 Day Fool (whiskey Barons Edit)

After the success of is debut single "SHOYE" which has gain a lot of air plays on several Radio & TV stations in Nigeria. The talented sensational singer join forces with Dj Coublon (Producer) and Fiokee (The guitarist on scapegoat) to delivery this new lovely tune "WOJU".

Kiss Daniel - Woju

This mix was originally done for The Wire Magazine Website. But not only did I want to avoid the mix getting lost in "the universe of data" after it has been remove from the Wire's front page but more importantly I wanted you guys, who have been so supportive of my label, to enjoy it as well.

The week I was about to finish the mix I got a message from Julien from www.parisdjs.com one of Europe´s best website when it comes to sharing our passion for worldwide dancefloor oriented music, asking me if I would like to send him a Mix for his site.

So I wrote to the Wire to make sure all is cool and we agreed that they will have it for a week exclusively and that Julien and myself will make it available later. The Wire kindly offered to pay me for the mix but I thought it would be fair to decline the offer.

The initial idea was to make a pure West African Afro-beat/Afro-Funk mix, as I guessed they wanted something that reflected what I was releasing but then, while selecting the tracks, I bumped into few titles from Ethiopia, Angola and Guinea that I have been enjoying a lot in recent months and decided to add them as well.

This mix is (was) also an occasion to celebrate "the Vodoun Effect" Compilation by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou which has been released in France today and will be available in the rest of Europe and in the USA at the end of November.

The mix contains a slower version of the Poly-Rythmo killer track "Se Tche We Djo Mon"

I hope you´ll enjoy it !!!
Samy



Analog Africa Selection Vol.2 (2009) - Download it, Share it & make sure your friends hear it ....

This Rough Guide explores the heady influence of psychedelia on salsa, from the fuzzy tropical guitars of the sixties and seventies to today’s cutting edge bands experimenting with weird & wonderful psychedelic sounds.

For sound samples, videos and further information, visit: www.worldmusic.net/psychedelic-salsa

Psychedelic rock and salsa came of age together in the mid to late 1960s under parallel socio-cultural circumstances of upheaval, unrest and experimentation within the respective youth cultures of their core audiences. 
Historically there are direct connections between the world of the hippie counter-culture and Latin music (from Fania’s Jerry Masucci being friends with Woodstock’s Michael Lang to ‘mambonik’ Bill Graham urging Santana to cover Tito Puente. In places like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and especially Peru, non-Latin global youth culture – or at least some of the music, dress, art, and social attitude – was quite influential as well, producing tropical music with fuzzed out guitars, echo effects, and electric keyboards
In the late 1970s through to the 1990s, discotheque remix dance culture spawned the psychedelic extended salsa mixes of studio wizards like Baron Lopez and the wild playing of Cuban violinist Alfredo de la Fé (featured here with Orchestra Rytmo Africa-Cubana), both of which factored in trippy dub effects borrowed from another Caribbean music with psychedelic leanings, namely reggae.
This collection explores not only those early connections and cross-pollinating influences but also the resurgence of interest in the subject of the psychedelic sound today, from a revival of the experimental vibe that made the early years of salsa so varied and interesting to the equally intriguing phenomenon of retro analogue aesthetics that seems to be on the rise. 
Current Latin artists like Bio Ritmo, La Mecánica Popular, Bacalao Men, Quantic, Fantasma and San Lázaro have found themselves looking back to the days of progressive, open attitudes when the emphasis was on message and music, not on singer as star or producing bland pop for mass consumption. This is, perhaps, a reaction to the fallout of the over-commercialisation and dilution of salsa in the 1980s and the concurrent ascendance of merengue, bachata and (later) reggaeton. The influence of rare groove collecting, DJ-driven investigations into the golden era, and a spill-over from the success of retro funk and soul acts like Sharon Jones have shaped current ‘indie’ salsa production as well.

Nelson Y Sus Estrellas: Londres (taken from The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Salsa)

Jungle

The psychedelic movement of the 1960s imprinted a kaleidoscopic stamp on musical cultures from across the globe – from the Tropicália artists in Brazil to the Afrobeat groups in West Africa and even the legendary Bollywood composers. Carefully selected from albums in the Rough Guide Psychedelic series, these mind-bending, rebellious and deeply cool grooves create a heady psychedelic brew which is guaranteed to open up new musical doors.

More information at www.worldmusic.net/psychedelic

Ros Seresyothea: Jam 10 Kai Theit (from The Rough Guide To A World Of Psychedelia)

This cutting edge Rough Guide digs deep into today's dynamic, shape-shifting Brazilian jazz scene – leaving 'The Girl From Ipanema' lounging in the shade.

For more information: http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1345

Fernando Moura & Ary Dias: Mexido (taken from The Rough Guide To Brazilian Jazz)

South African jazz is a pertinent reminder of the intrinsic link between music and the dismantling of oppression. This Rough Guide celebrates the legacy of many of the great players and showcases the wealth of burgeoning jazz talent emerging from the Rainbow Nation.

More information at http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1341

Abdullah Ibrahim: Soweto (taken from the Rough Guide To South African Jazz)

At Last

Seven Day Fool

100 minutes of essential Afrobeat gems. Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Vincent Ahehehinnou, Femi Kuti, The Last Poets, Hugh Masekela and more.

Afrodisiac Gentlemen - Essential Afrobeats Mixed By Jorge Madera & Mr Chong

‘My Head’ is an Ethio-Latin jazz track, which pays homage to John Coltrane’s "Africa Brass" album (McCoy Tyner on piano), with a nod to Horace Silver and Dave Brubeck. The piano riff-led sonic journey leads you through the east African highlands via a Latin nightclub in Addis Ababa and on to Brazil.

The track, like a lot of Ethiopian music, is in 3/4 and 6/4 time signature. The Afro-Brazilian 2/4 pulse gives it danceability! 

Samuel Yirga - My Head

Ghetto Lounge's forthcoming limited 10" vinyl and digital single from London based Afro Funk band "Afrik Bawantu". Led by Ghanan master drummer and singer Afla Sackey, tight and groovy rhythm section meets driving horn section, this 12 piece orchestra has been active since 2008 in vibrant East london's world music scene. Check out their first single "Noko Hewon (There Is A Reason)" and "Old Lady". It will make you move for sure! Release date 15th March 2013. More info TBC

Afrik Bawantu Single Snippets

Afrik Bawantu forthcoming single "Noko Hewon" 4 track EP.
Track1-Life On The Street
Track2-My Lady
Out on iTunes and all the digital music store worldwide on Thursday 14th March 2013

Afrik Bawantu Snippets2

We sit down with London's Family Atlantica to discuss their debut album - 'Family Atlantica' - out now on CD & Digital via Soundway Records.

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Buy 'Family Atlantica'

Podcast 002 - Introducing Family Atlantica Pt.1

Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa (releasedate: D/A: April 9th)

“I really like rock,” says Rokia Traoré about her new album Beautiful Africa, “and it was because of rock that I wanted to play music, but I didn’t want to make rock and roll in the Western tradition … I wanted something that’s rock and roll but still Malian and still me.”

When she was growing up, an older brother used to play her Dire Straits and Pink Floyd. “It wasn’t all I listened to—I discovered jazz and blues with my dad, and Malian and other African music, and French chanson, but it was rock music that made me want to learn guitar.”

There are three guitarists on the album, John Parish, Stefano Pilia and Traoré herself, but though the record is constructed around rock riffs and sturdy bass work, it still has a distinctively West African feel, thanks to the genius of Mamah Diabaté on the n’goni, the ancient, harsh-edged African lute. It’s an instrument that Traoré has used in compositions throughout her career, and she argues, “I’ve used n’goni in classical music projects, and it goes with blues, or jazz, or rock and roll. It’s a great instrument!”

Traoré’s changes of musical direction usually start with “a sound that I imagine…a sound inside my head.” She didn’t want to imitate what other people had done “because I need to do what I imagine—that’s the reason I’m making music.” But she needed someone to help her create the sound that she imagined, and eventually decided on John Parish, the writer, guitarist, and producer who has worked with Tracy Chapman, Eels, and PJ Harvey. During the recordings “he just asked me to listen to things and make my choice.” The collaboration worked. “This is what I wanted to make. it’s even more than I imagined.”

The past year has been a quite extraordinarily productive period for Traoré. The Barbican invited her to wirte three wildly different new sets of music: the acoustic Damou (Dream), the often bluesy Donguili (Sing), and the rock- influenced Donke (Dance), in which she set out to show “three different aspects of Malian culture and my own personality.” She has toured Britain lately on the Africa Express train, collaborating with Damon Albarn as well as Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones, who joined her backing band for the London finale. And she has continued acting as well, with British and European performances in Toni Morrison and Peter Sellars’ much-praised theatrical/musical re-working of the Shakespearian story of Desdemona, for which she wrote the music.

The songs on Beautiful Africa are in the West African language of Bambara, as well as French and occasional bursts of English, and the often personal lyrics are concerned with Traoré’s thoughts on her own life, and on her tragically battered homeland. The album’s title track, built around the sturdiest rock riff on the album, is very much a love song to “battered, wounded Africa,” and reflects Traoré’s despair and fury at what has happened to her country. “The flood of my tears is in full spate, ardent is my pain,” she sings, while arguing that, “Conflict is no solution…Lord, give us wisdom, give us foresight.” Other songs on the album include the thoughtful ballad “Sarama,” a praise song to Malian women, partly sung in English, and the personal “Mélancolie,” a surprisingly upbeat song about loneliness and sadness that has already become a radio hit in France. Traoré says that she was lonely as a child, partly because her father was a diplomat and constantly on the move. Another, more upbeat song, “Sikey,” is also autobiographical, looking back at the criticism she received when she first set out to become a professional musician, after all, she was not a griot, from a family of traditional musicians, but the daughter of a diplomat. And although she had no musical training, she gave up her studies in Brussels to return to Mali to create a new form of music, in which her songs would be backed by her acoustic guitar, along with n’goni and the xylophone-like balaba balafon, two instruments not normally played together in Africa.

Traoré, Parish and Stefano Pilia play guitars on the album, with Nicolai Munch- Hansen on bass, percussion from Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear), ‘human beatbox’ effects from Jason Singh, and n’goni playing and backing vocals by fellow Malian musicians Fatim Kouyaté and Bintou Soumounou, both members of the Foundation Passerelle that Traoré established in Bamako, the Malian capital, to help her fellow Malians prepare for careers in music and sustain the growth of Mali’s rich musical culture.

It is difficult to think of anyone else who can switch from ancient Malian culture to acting and then to African rock and roll. She will be touring Europe in May and June presenting her album Beautiful Africa during a run of summer festivals, including Glastonbury and Roskilde.

Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa

Ed Sheeran and Passenger cover "No Diggity" and mash with a cover of "Thrift Shop"

No Diggity - Passenger & Ed Sheeran

The mysterious afro-soul of The Shaolin Afronauts first echoed across the dance floors of Australia in early 2008. Heavily inspired by the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering avant-garde jazz artists of the same period, the Shaolin Afronauts draw on the this highly innovative and sometimes volatile era in music, using it as inspiration to create music with the same fire and intensity. 

Though there is something refreshing and original about the Afronauts, their music could be described as somewhere in between the heavy Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Ethio-Jazz of Mulatu Astatke. 

This debut 12 inch single combines all these elements, Journey Through Time having a hypnotic, spiritual feel, whilst the B side Kibo is totally exclusive to this 12 inch single, and is an upbeat positive groove, both tracks only hinting at the delights the forthcoming album Flight Of The Ancients (FSRCD/LP085) will contain.

