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Wed 03 Jul
The Blind Boys of Alabama to receive Liftetime Acheivement Award from Americana Music Association
Wed 19 Jun
Real World Records to release ‘lost album’ by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Tue 14 May
Mari Kalkun releases animation film for ‘Mother Earth’ in collaboration with Brian Eno’s EarthPercent charity
Mon 13 May
The Zawose Queens announce tour and share ‘Mapendo’ from forthcoming album Maisha
Fri 10 May
Bab L’ Bluz release new album ‘Swaken’
Wed 20 Mar
The Zawose Queens from Tanzanian musical dynasty announce debut album Maisha
Fri 08 Mar
Jasdeep Singh Degun makes history at Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
Wed 14 Feb
Bab L’ Bluz announce new album
Fri 02 Feb
John Metcalfe’s Tree in Dolby Atmos
Tue 30 Jan
The Unfolding: Bristol Light Festival
Releases
Maisha
The Zawose Queens
The Zawose Queens are Leah and Pendo Zawose of the Tanzanian Wagogo people, whose joyous otherworldly vocals and polyphonic rhythms on drums, thumb pianos and chizeze fiddle mirror the sounds of nature. The grand-daughter and daughter of the late, great Hukwe Zawose, like all the women in the Zawose family, they were once forbidden from the spotlight. Aided by producers Oli Barton-Wood and Tom Excell, this is a stunning debut of eleven original songs that deftly blend the acoustic, electronic, traditional and modern.
Swaken
Bab L’ Bluz
Welcome to the world of Swaken, the second album by French-Moroccan power quartet, Bab L' Bluz. Recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, England, written partly in Morocco — the birthplace of frontwoman Yousra Mansour — and mostly across a world tour that took them from Adelaide, Barcelona and New York to Essaouira in Morocco, Lomé in Togo and Dougga in Tunisia. Eleven tracks that spark and pulse with kinetic, pedal-to-the-metal energy.
Musow Danse
Les Amazones d’Afrique
Like a bow pulled back with a fist and a sharp-angled elbow, the supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique take aim at gender inequality and, fortified by an ancient-to-future soundscape co-crafted with producer Jacknife Lee, shoot their flaming arrows. Six glorious voices, six mighty queens — Alvie Bitemo, Dobet Gnahoré, Kandy Guira, Mamani Keïta, Nneka, Fafa Ruffino — declaim in a range of languages of the freedom and joy that comes with speaking out, and of the power of unity and ally-ship. Female warriordom has never sounded so fierce — or so danceable.
videos
Curlew (live at Real World Studios)
Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell
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Maisha (Official Video)
AmmA (Official Video)
Lament (Official Video)
Jasdeep Singh Degun
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Further Reading
All In The Family
Music journalist Campbell Stevenson takes a look at the relationship between musicians and family.
Tue, 02 April 19