The unbreathable air saturated with moisture, the soggy soil that swallows every step like a starving death, the hostile nature
and, finally, the remote swamp. The one they invested in composing Fire Eater. The one they left a few traces in.
Tracks that can talk. Six men heavily armed with instruments, a seventh fastest, only weighted by a microphone. They left
the inhospitable vegetation, leaving behind a succession of footprints. As we try to follow them, the afrobeat that made it
easy to spot them now dissipates into a floating mist. So, we have to connect the radars and try to capture the vintage
waves of equipment that emit more than one point but several. Be attentive to jazz solos and funk scarifications, as much
as to what could chant and tap on the times of these tight rhythms. Because their blending has become a personal style as
much as hybrid, and it is to avoid being watched by asphyxiation that they left the stagnant waters.
Escaped from the car sound systems or plastered on the walls announcing their many concerts, it is in the city that they are
now detected. Infiltrating them is a daunting task. A track where you have to avoid the vigilance of the electric and venomous
keyboards, escape the copper flames and the guitar shears. Enter the choking groove to finally enjoy a purely instrumental
passage, sneak in and dance. Progress outside the Afro mangrove, Running The Way nevertheless retains many cables still
connected. The bottom of the jeans still ‘Roforofo’. ‘Muddy’ in Yoruba. Just 2 years after the first EP Fire Eater released in
2021, Radio Nova’s crush (title Helelyos enthroned 3 months in playlist), the Roforofo Jazz returns with the LP Running The
Way, 8 tracks even more ambitious, with careful production, marking a clear progression in its quest for an increasingly
more personal sound and writing. Putting the listener immediately in the tone of his atypical afro jazz rap fury, Love In Time
and its sharp rhythmic appeal to the power of the music, in an ultra-energetic piece yet smelling with jazz via well-felt
keyboard surges. Side To Side is a rearrangement of a piece by Togolese artist Bella Bello and Manu Dibango, yet glancing
towards Motown and resonating like a anthem to life and directions to take to counter the negativity of our modern societies.
Then on Stand Up in a more deepfunk US style like Breakestra or The Greyboy Allstars, MC Days (aka RacecaR) switches
between fast flows and downtempo in an injunction to all fight for what we believe in. An epic piece concluded with a nod
to Master Hendrix… Gas punctuates the A side with a light but saving rhythmic lull, coming closer to a nu-soul atmosphere
and punctuated with an explosive refrain in which rap, rock and jazz clash, tending to prove as Days chants that by being
more realistic our differences can only fade…Title Shawarma has nothing to do with a Kebab sandwich, although…! Life
unfolds like a menu, in which everything is not always to our liking but which teaches us to accept judicious and juicy mixes,
and combinations. The result is a joint with an oriental touch, almost ethio, a rhythm that perfectly matches the hip-hop flow
and the Roforofo Jazz style.The Big Hustle is a UFO. Articulated around a 20 bars loop that gives it a communicative energy,
punctuated by a bass line reminiscent of Fela Kuti’s Colonial Mentality, this title sounds like a highway for frantic breakbeat
dancers; epic!
From Here To Benin brings us back to the group’s Afro-inspired origins, while injecting a slight dose of well-felt pop music.
A piece that encourages travel to learn to share, universally.
And finally, Mode For DD, a cover of the instrumental title of the obscure jazz funk of The Awakening, with added voice of
Days telling the meaning of life and its mysteries, our beliefs and certainties, as human beings as well as artists.

Tracklist:

A1 - Love In Time
A2 - Side To Side
A3 - Stand Up
A4 - Gas
B1 - Shawarma
B2 - The Big Hustle
B3 - From Here To Benin
B4 - Mode For DD More

fter two hip-hop albums (Got To Get Down in 2016 and Impact in 2017), the unpredictable Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra comes back to its fundamentals with a new instrumental album:
MORPHEUS which repositions the band in the spirit of their previous spatial, almost cosmic albums Last Odyssey (2012) and Pulsion (2015), both released on Ubiquity Records and acclaimed by spiritual and fusion jazz lovers, library music fans, as well as rare grooves diggers (ALVO's first 4 vinyl albums now being out of stock). More

Reissue of Amédée Ô Suriam's banger 'Hot Shot' in editted form, comes with two very dope remixes by 'Manoo'.. Sourced from the master tapes and properly remastered! Amédée Ô Suriam was one of those flamboyant souls touched by grace. Percussionist, author, composer, singer, stylist, sculptor, the Martiniquan put his divine inspiration at the service of a hybrid and visionary creation. His sudden death in 1992, while in his thirties, left behind him "Tension Hot-Shot", his only solo release from 1989. A resolutely avant-garde track, whose fusion of traditional African and Caribbean music with the beginnings of the house movement in Europe is underlined by the subtitle "Afro House" on the A side of the EP, a term that was barely used until then. It is this mysteriously precursory track that Chineurs de House has found, remastered and reissued today, finally shedding light on the fascinating work of an artist who had fallen into oblivion. More

Flock is a brand new collaboration between five leading musicians from London's open-minded jazz and experimental scenes: Bex Burch (Vula Viel), Sarathy Korwar, Dan “"Danalogue"” Leavers (Soccer96, The Comet Is Coming), Al MacSween (Maisha) and Tamar Osborn (Collocutor).

Tracklist CD / LP
01 / A1: EXPAND
02 / A2: PREPARE TO LET GO
03 / A3: SOUNDS WELCOME
04 / B1: IT’S COMPLICATED
05 / B2: WHAT PURPOSE
06 / C1: MURMURATION
07 / C2: BOLD DREAM
08 / C3: MY RESONANCE
09 / D1: HOW MANY ARE ONE
10 / D2: FULLY BREATHED More

Being somewhat of a conceptual experiment. All the artists on this album were asked to imagine fusing Acid and House with the Virtualsex LP which was released on Buzz in 1993. A 303 sound would be welcomed but not essential with an emphasis on soulful emotion and melody.

Each record comes with a individual digital download code More

A soundtrack of Sudan's revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture. Beja Power! is a living archive of the finest, most heartfelt Beja songs—a six-track portal to another time and place, of melodies long forgotten and never before interpreted by an electric and brass-driven ensemble. Few older Beja recordings were produced. Even fewer, if any, remain. Electric soul, blues, jazz, rock, surf, even hints of country, speak fluently to styles and chords that could be Tuareg, Ethiopian, Peruvian or Thai—all grounded by hypnotic Sudanese grooves, Naji's impeccable, airy tenor sax, and of course, Noori's tambo-guitar, a self-made unique hybrid of an electric guitar and an electric tambour, a four-string instrument found across East Africa. A truly ancient community, Beja trace their ancestry back millennia. Some say they are among the living descendants of Ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush. They are even depicted in the hieroglyphics. Beja melodies—nostalgic, hopeful and sweet, ambiguous and honest—are thousands of years old. Yet their sounds are also reminiscent of Dick Dale's 1963 "Misirlou" and jazz great Charlie Rouse's 1968 "Meci Bon Dieu". This album could be 6,000 years, 60 years, or 6 months old. Along with his Dorpa Band, formed in 2006, Noori's instrumental Beja music forms the latest link in an unbroken chain of an inherited, arresting sound that is local as it is global, a gift of a storied past and the exchanges of the well-traveled Red Sea. Ostinato Records is honored to bring the nearly forgotten Beja sound in all its nostalgia, sweetness, honesty, and power, recorded and mastered to maintain the warmth of Sudan's signature aesthetic, to your sound system. More

An aura of mystery is hidden on this magnificent album released on EMI Nigeria in 1974 and today a collector’s cult object was the only one named Moonrakers Band.

Steve Black tells: “We were the original members of The Moonrakers and were based in Zaria, then in 1972 we left band management and started The Elcados. The original management of The Moonrakers sold the name to his elder brother who had a club in Kano and they brought Prince Bola Agbana to get other musicians to continue The Moonrakers while we moved in as The Elcados.”

Moonrakers Band and Elcados were the two bands that inflamed northern Nigeria in the early 70s with a more rocking and virtuoso sound, and especially with tons of rare grooves, then everything else around it.

Coming to the album content tracks like Wait For Me, Cut Your Coat According To You Size, Yara Manyan Gobe, but also Enia Sa Pele and Move on, will make floating camels appear on the dancefloor, or in your house. More

The Balek Band and Abstrack Records's first album, Médecines, is the product of a
magma of influences, the emanation of large decade of music infused lives.
The emotional tessitura is wide: the dark meadows of “The Balek Bad” reach us through
like a mantra from the end of a dark tunnel, while just three track earlier it was a caribbean
Zouk euphoria which ruled the world. Inbetween, it’s a wide spectrum of hybrid epiphanies :
"Hagen & Again" is a progressive Dub jewel, even Krauty to an extent, where the instruments
play the lead role. "Cosmic Barry" is across the Channel : thick and broken club music,
sweating with subs, yet always disputing it to the Funk accent of the the keys and the slap
bass.
This list of geographical and stylistic hybridations simplys goes on, and it’s the 54
minutes of the album that put an end to it. But beyond the never-ending list, this first album
is alive: its gets us breathing the therapeutical air which fills the world of its creators.

TRACKLIST:

A1. Introspection
A2. Charbon Alcool
A3. Balek Zouk
B1. Blanc Nuit
B2. Hagen & Again
C1. The Balek Bad
C2. Lenteur
D1. Cosmic Barry
D2. Kenesam More