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Imagine an African artist with the tenderly subversive touch of Bon Iver, the haunting falsetto of Skip James, the razor-like mind of Akala, and the inventiveness of Moses Sumney. You've just...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. Blick Bassy formed his first band in Cameroon at the age of 17. Creating an inventive jazz fusion group inspired by local rhythms with three singers, all singing a...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release, the first album in 13 years from the acclaimed trio. Martinican G?rald Toto, Cameroonian Richard Bona and Congolose Lokua Kanza made one of No Format's first albums...

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2021 release, the 11th album from Malian kora player Ballak? Sissoko. The album draws together solo compositions alongside thoughtful collaborations with...

New quartet Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani presents "Les ?gar?s" (The wandering), an album recorded by two virtuoso duos (Sissoko-Segal and Peirani-Parisien), who for years have excelled in the art...

Limited 180gm white vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. The wait is finally over. The greatest living female voice in African music, Oumou Sangare releases Mogoya (meaning "people today") on a new...

The New Duo Album by Piers Faccini & Ballak? Sissoko: Our Calling Two decades after their very first collaboration, British-Italian folk songwriter Piers Faccini and Malian kora virtuoso, Ballak?...

When a French trombonist brings together a jazz septet with 3 young Cuban percussionists to reinterpret Afro-Cuban sacred music, you get one of the most exciting jazz projects of the year!

Vinyl LP pressing. April 2016, Canadian singer M?lissa Laveaux heads to Haiti, her parents' homeland. 20 years have gone by since she last stepped foot there. Here she is today, still a stranger to a...

The legendary singer Salif Keita makes a grand return with So Kono, an acoustic and deeply intimate album. Salif Keita, "the golden voice of Africa," reveals himself for the first time in a...