#Releases

1040 are the days that have passed since the group took their first flight to Mexico 3 years ago until the album’s release date. An album full of stories and multicultural musical nuances that intertwine with different interludes, connecting the listener to this musical journey. At the core of the album, within the stylistic spectrum that La Sra. Tomasa unfolds in 1040, we find a nucleus of their signature sounds.

The recently-released sophomore album Tempestuoso (Lulaworld Records), from Toronto group Tio Chorinho, is 10 tracks of new and classic Brazilian choro music, bursting with spirit and soul, and featuring a tour de force appearance by powerhouse vocalist Flavia Nascimento.

Northside KUISi is a concept album narrated by news reporters from a distant future who speak an ancient, futuristic creole language made up of Lengua-Palenkera, Anishinaabemowin, Spanish and English. It’s a carefully-woven song cycle of 12 songs with an extra seven hidden compositions. Prophetic words from the future.

Brazilian Hip Hop, with a golden-era glint and a 20-strong cast is given fresh impetus on Ela Partiu, 24 year old rapper Laiz’s breakout recording on Agogo Records. Brazilian rapper Laíz & The New Love Experience releases a remarkably self-assured debut combining tropicalia and samba with her languid flow to produce a lively modern Latin American take on Hip-Hop.

Sandy Bell’s debut solo album was born out of heart-wrenching grief, after losing her only son Colin Bell in a tragic train accident. While Bell has sung and written music for much of her life. She kept her own dream alive to someday release a solo album. It took retiring and moving to Nova Scotia for Bell to finally do it, at age 63 – even though this was never the album she imagined recording.

Coming from the Moroccan desert, the smell of the souk impregnated in their sandy clothes, Abdul & The Gang unleash irrepressible Beldi rhythms and unbreathable Funk grooves. The Roland E-40 Oriental synthesizer and its 1/4 tone as a weapon of choice, it is with an injunction to dance that the Gang steals the dance-floor. Deep in the groove, like a trance that slowly releases its power, a heritage from the desert.

Philosophical tales, poetic observations, light- hearted love stories are told in French, Spanish or Wolof, a West-African native language. Beneath El Gato Negro's perpetually cheerful mask, a hitherto hidden melancholy is now on full display with his new opus, "Tigre Qui Pleure". French melancholy laced with an unbreakable African spirit

'Fantastic Freeriding – The Journey Continues,' the latest label compilation showcases the vibrant tapestry of the current artist collective. This compilation is a must-have for any music lover who appreciates cutting-edge artistry and boundary-pushing creativity. Bravo to all involved in creating such an exceptional musical journey!

With blues / rock influences, such as Patti Smith and Janis Joplin, this album is also inspired by the 20+ year marriage with her partner and, in some tracks, she brings to life this love that made ​​her fight against death. Norine has a distinctive voice, probably grown from roots, inspired by what she listened to, but the lyrics are sweet and melodic.

Liam Pek's Keep On Keeping On truly embodies the spirit of creativity and versatility. With each performance, Liam takes the audience on a captivating journey through various genres, seamlessly blending influences from blues, Latin, 70s pop, and jazz. His repertoire is not only diverse but also remarkably coherent, showcasing his ability to fearlessly explore new musical territories.

Mukambo and NYP Records unite again for the third volume of the Global Afrobeat Movement compilation. This initiative by Belgian DJ and music journalist Benjamin Tollet aka Mukambo aims to focus on up-and-coming Afrobeat bands from the four corners of the world, as the Afrobeat revival has been expanding globally since the beginning of the 21st century.

"To dance is to pray, to pray is to heal, to heal is to give, to give is to live, to live is to dance". -Marijo Moore

The Staples Jr. Singers were part of a vanguard of soul gospel artists in the 1970s that broke from tradition to testify with the groove. When they wrote these songs they had one question on their minds: "When Do We Get Paid?“ It was their anthem at a time in their career when they weren’t sure they were being recognised for their talent, and certainly not compensated.

“Rock Me Baby” is a long-distance love song Lily co-wrote with Jesse Singer and Chris Soper during the tracking of her 2019 LP, Retro-Moderne. It might be the only song with that title that doesn't actually "rock." Instead, it finds Frost cooing sweet nothings into her lover's ear with a gentle sigh, breathy vocals.

"Dreamscape" is a virtual album, a compilation of well-known and lesser-known material that spans 40+ years of Steve Miller's career.

It is amazing what gets done when time is on your side. A global release. The beat, that relentless pulse, pop tunes have their place but a down to the bone popping chill, rocks our house.

"Twang-Ucopia" (Balanced Diet) is the debut release of New Copasetics, a quartet of veteran players with ridiculous credits and a curated playlist of originals and select covers from seminal artists such as Rockpile (Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds), Ry Cooder, Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson, Little Feat, Don Covay, The Simms Twins, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Manual Galban and L. D. Armstrong.

Singer, exhibition curator, curator of the 4th volume of Wizzz! French Psychorama 1966-1974, Barnabé Mons is an artist with an atypical career. He first rose to prominence in the rock scene in garage rock bands. He releases his first solo album Bunker Superstars. He unveils very personal compositions, neo-retro pop, retro-futurist, from pop, psychedelia, punk, bossa nova and groove.

In Sitka, Alaska, musician, and artist Nicholas Galanin creates music as Ya Tseen. Imbued in his new record, and across all of his creative output, is a conscious effort to shift the narrative away from painful histories of Indigenous peoples. "Indian Yard" humanizes Indigenous experience in the world in a society that has historically dehumanized us.

Award-winning Toronto-based Americana singer-songwriter Julian Taylor released his latest album, The Ridge, via Howling Turtle, Inc., on June 19, 2020. Taylor decided to release the album in the hope that his songs might bring joy to listeners in troubled times. “I hope people can find solace in this music,” offers Taylor. “It’s meant to draw you in and really touch your heart.”

"Understand What Black Is" by The Last Poets is an album that matters - not just musically, but as a record of the times we're living in. The Last Poets are weathervanes, warning of the future and past sins in poems that are indivisible from the rhythms they are voiced on.

Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers’ career spanned more than six decades, during which he worked as a drummer, guitarist, and vocalist as well as appearing in over 50 films, perhaps most famously Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, by the late 1970s, when these tracks were recorded. This release is an hommage as well as a collage of his talent.

L.A.B return with their new album, L.A.B V, their fifth in five years. Following on from a string of albums & singles that have reached number one at home in New Zealand, L.A.B V features a band continuing to experiment with genres, while staying true to the L.A.B sound. The album sees the band combining their eclectic sound into a compelling journey that moves across reggae, soul, funk & blues.

Another awesome Global Riddims selection of global grooves from the 4 corners of the world mixing #AfroBeat #AfroJazz #GlobalFunk #LatinBeats. The album takes you on a virtual world trip from Réunion and Accra to Bogota, Istanbul and beyond.

Dig This Way Records has captured this unique sound on "Best of Jicco Funk Volume 1", a door to a world of music that is high grade in quality, diverse, and open to interpretation even if the selected tracks are all from the same record label. One's questions might include: When did they start? Why did they start? Who was behind it? Where did the artists come from? Listen and learn...

SPRING - the debut album from the Artur Tuźnik Sextet - takes listeners on an engaging, reflective journey through sounds, sensations and seasons in a program featuring new music that pays homage to the bandleader and composer’s greatest inspirations. The musical voices of the carefully chosen contributing instrumentalists bring nine original tunes to life in a production that’s intimate, spiritual, and offers something for audiences of all backgrounds.

Daisy Chepchichir Ruto aka Amara Tari, is a Kenyan Singer, Songwriter, Actor and Model. Her latest single 'HOME' is a song about loss and self-discovery, the journey and internal struggle everyone faces, and also the feeling only you can feel when you finally make it through.

One of the greatest stars of the rock & roll era, David Bowie evaded easy categorisation throughout his career, operating as the artiest rocker within the mainstream and the most accessible musician on the fringe. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music.

NUSANTARAFRIKA takes us on a psychedelic guitar journey around the world, traversing yet more strange and exotic territory in a quest for musical enlightenment.

Totó La Momposina’s entire life has been dedicated to representing the music of Colombia’s Caribbean coastline. As a singer, dancer and teacher she embodies that fertile place where Colombia’s African, Indigenous Indian and Spanish cultures mingle to create a unique musical tradition. Totó is not only its greatest interpreter, but also a restless innovator. 

Sophie Lukacs’ debut single "Falling" is a hypnotic tune, backed by the guitar, the kora – and its fellow Malian instruments the calabash, five-string ngoni bass, and its three-string cousin, the djeli-ngoni – "Falling" features Lukacs' incantatory, almost spoken-word vocals

Band of Gypsys is a live album and Jimi's first without the Experience. Recorded at Fillmore East NYC - dec 31 - jan 2, 1970 with a new line-up of musicians.

Fernweh, a German word for 'wanderlust' that means specifically to be homesick for a place you've never been, is the perfect name for Marbin's 12th album, which focuses exclusively on jazz standards.

Julye Blom’s powerful soul voice resonates profoundly while groovy bass, syncopated drums and crisp guitar with peals of Hammond organ and horns lay down the deeply funky tunes. The song embraces the spirit and heart in music blurring the lines between eras of sound. You can feel the pure emotion put into this single - combination of misty eyed nostalgia and the infinite power of love.

A song about broken family units, values, broken communities, societies. A black family is broken, the human soul is broken.

A brilliant single and video release. The singing, coordinated with the creative video is superb. The subtitles make it all the more interesting for people who do not speak the local language. Not only the sound but also the meaning is to be appreciated. Nature is calling for humanity to come together, to care for the creation we are all part of.

This album blends Dominican rhythm with contemporary Jazz Fusion by using the Pambiche rhythm unique only to the Dominican Republic. Pambiche is a music genre, which derives from the Merengue Tipico, a traditional style of Merengue.

After fantastic reviews of the album “The Thrill Of Loving You”, here is a brilliant edit of the lead single “The Thrill Is Gone”. Julia Werup’s interpretation is magnificent and her vocal performance is just outstanding.

“Jump for Joy” is a small collection that refused to die. Shelved for more than ten years - after Callie released her second Jazz standards album - this new release delivers a fresh and authentic perspective on five Jazz standards. 

"Pardon" is the second release by Guy Mapoko. The 14 tracks on this album are an amalgamation of his West-African roots and the music of his second home, Canada.

Barry Alexander King has delivered an album full of top-quality songwriting, hooks, lyrics, and production.

8 intimate pieces by singer-songwriter Roxana Amed - recorded in different cities and with small ensembles - with a jazzy mood that distinguishes the singer when approaching popular music.

Between the years 1984-1986 Bill King recorded three sides, Ice, Avenue B and City of Dreams for his own label – Night Passage Music. Tracks from these Night Passage years have now been re-issued on this release.

This album brings back music from the era when Reggae was in its formative years.  For those of you who like Reggae consider this album a time capsule bringing back some of the old tunes, re-polished and revitalized. For those of you who think that Reggae isn’t your cup of tea, you might wanna think again and listen to this album.

"Wow, you’re the real deal!” this kind of praise is what Canada's JUNO-nominated Jazz vocalist Heather Bambrick consistently receives from fellow musicians. Critics love her. WholeNote Magazine calls her “one of the finest jazz singers in this country”, and All About Jazz says her voice is a “paragon of clarity” and that she's the real deal in every way.

"Uber Chill" brings together elements of various musical styles combined with unexpected instrumental solos, richly layered synth sounds, hip rhythms and bluesy, funky guitar hooks. 

'Hacer el Amor' is rich of Latin rhythms and melancholy. A true tribute to Latin culture whether at home or in the diaspora. Se nace y se vive como se puede, pero cada cual escoge ser quien es.

The song is calling on all human beings to stop this mentality that is tearing us up - and our beautiful planet - from generation to generation. Human beings with all the hatred that has turned against all humanity for centuries. Civilised as we are but still dwelling on racism.

Leah Capelle is an alternative/pop/rock artist from Chicago. She has a freshness and spontaneity, instead, capable of capturing the spirit of any song with skill and grace. Leah Capelle is a rare talent.

Star Planet Funk is a witness to an era and those Atlanta players who were there for the music in a city that regarded artists as baggage. Low wages, few opportunities.

The Badasonics mixes Soul and Funk together with Jamaican riddims and horns with the soulful rock and reggae voice of Caz Gardiner to deliver a pulsating party of soul steady beats.

It was 1974, and Toronto was undergoing a cultural shift. The usual pop fare was starting to assimilate the rhythms of the Caribbean – not just Soca, and calypso – but a music known and beloved by those who immigrated from Jamaica called, ‘Reggae.’

Based on the Reggae Sax Riddim this track sends a strong message across the world to condemn the act of rape and violence against women. A collaboration between Reggae Vibes Music based in NY & Kingston JA, alongside the High-Grade Family from Ghana. 

Suthukazi Arosi is a singer, performer, actress and KORA/SAMA Award Winning South African Musical Icon. “Naked” features 10 brand-new tracks recorded over a period of twelve years, 2 remixes, and 3 interludes. The interludes introduce the listener to some traditional and tribal sounds of South Africa. Each with a specific purpose and theme.

Singer-Songwriter Maura Shaftoe has been making beautiful noise for over twenty years. Blessed with a warm, soul-filled voice, she caught the attention of acclaimed musicians soon after her debut on the Calgary jazz scene, leading to multiple collaborations with Juno-award-winning bassist and producer Mike Lent (Jann Arden). 

'Desert Orchid' paints a beautiful and delicate musical picture of the American southwest - the landscape, plant life, the verandas, and rugged people who live artfully amongst nature’s often hostile terrain.  Plateaus in the distance, the thousands of miles of blowing sand, the harsh morning light, the grace and pastoral beauty of late afternoon is encased in one, lone Desert Orchid".

Dr. Dubenstein, a former employee of the legendary RAS Records Label from Washington DC gathered up some high-carat collaborators to join him in his submarine. Formidable musicians and singers from Steel Pulse, Dub Syndicate, Roots Radics, Jah Works, jam and conjure up heavily rolling rhythms - and rumor has it that even WAILERS warhorses were involved in the project to add some melody.

The "Isle of Saints' is an aural composite of Bill King's travels throughout the Caribbean region as heard inside his head and felt in his heart.

On "Migration Blues" Eric Bibb draws a parallel between the former African American sharecroppers leaving the segregation and misery of the South for the industrial cities of the North and the current migratory movement to Europe of the refugees from the Middle East.

One Way Up. An artful, skilled and profound record, which captures Dave Young at the apex of his long and illustrious career.

Affirmative action is no solution to solve inequality amongst people, whether it be between cultures, races or sexes. Education is. Primarily education about life, as Lucky Dube vocalizes it so eloquently in his signature song 'Affirmative Action'

KEENIATTA, born in South Africa but a global citizen for most of her life, releases her new album "UNIVERSAL LOVE" and her special project #NeverGiveUp 

Hiding our heritage, to keep us into bondage.

They stole our culture, to say we got no future,
Destroyed our tradition, to keep us into subjection.

They took the natural living and turned it into artificial living.
They took the social living and turned it into socialism
They took the communal living and turned it into communism.
They took the capital living and turned it into capitalism.