Int'L & World Music

Japanese electro producer Parkgolf. He is best known for his recent collaborations with Korean rapper Jvcki Wai. The album features contributions from SUSHIBOYS, EMI Okamoto, Mizu98 and GOODMOODGOKU.1. Day1 2. Sunlight Ft. Goodmoodgoku 3. Shojo Forever...

Japan-based S. S. W. Ibuki Takai has a special voice. Her latest EP 'PIANO' released at the beginning of 2023, is now available on vinyl. The simple structure of the piece, consisting only of vocal and piano, allows the haunting voice and playing...

Jake Sollo (Born in Nigeria as Nkem Okonkwo) started his career in the 1960s as a member of The Hykkers, a popular band that drew large audiences across the country (even during the turmoil of the Biafra civil war). After The Hykkers disbanded, Jake...

It's hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out Free...

It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60's starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70's golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s...

Italy's shining star, Eros Ramazzotti, is ready to win your heart yet again on his new album Battito Infinito. Wth the new album he proves that with his charismatic voice and melodic pop, he is fully deserving of a 35-year career with 70 million sold...

Italy's fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity come together in the music of CGS: the seven piece band and dancer are the leading exponents in a new waveáof young performers re-inventing Southern Italy'sáPizzicaámusical and dance traditions for...

It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoul? music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring...

It is with great pleasure that we announce Mitchum Yacoub's debut album Living High in the Brass Empire- a showcase in unique stylings of tropical funk, afrobeat, cumbia, and soul; a musical patchwork threaded by a heavy, hypnotic rhythm section and...

It comes as no surprise to discover we are massive fans of Marcos Valle here at Mr Bongo, but this forgotten and obscure gem from the Brazilian maestro has proven to remain elusive to us until very recently. 'Girassol' is a lost Brazilian-boogie...

It can be turned round as you like, Gewalt has managed to be one of the most innovative German bands in 2017 in the advance of Noiserock. Sound, language, live performance, reflection, everything arises from an eruption and for that reason also...

Istening today to the music produced by Sensations' Fix, a project founded and directed by Franco Falsini in '70s, can't just leave anyone indifferent. Already in the mid-'60s, Falsini was full-time involved in musical activities: a tireless traveler and...