World Music

"El Khat make joyful clatter...everything is recycled metal, plastic or wood, all coming together in a... 

This year, 2024, Clannad, the BAFTA and Grammy award winning Irish band, celebrate the 40th Anniversary of 'Legend', the classic soundtrack... 

Roll up, roll up! All aboard the 19th century ZRI celebration cruise from Vienna to Odessa!

Our legendary... 

Novela is a compilation of 12 songs woven together with captivating collaborations and featured artists. “Dawned in your lucky color/ Chant your mantra... 

It all starts with the voice. At turns heavy and hulkingly powerful, yet agile and pointedly precise, Nusrat Fateh... 

Founded in the late 1960s by record store owner Seidou Adissa, Albarika Store is one of the most important independent record labels on the... 

The fertility of the Cuban music scene in the 1970s was rich and blooming. FA-5’s self-titled album from 1976 is a perfect example of the energy and... 

Get out! Fight!” The Lijadu Sisters’ Horizon Unlimited is the insurgent afrofunk their second cousin Fela strived to create. Soulful, psychedelic, feminist, and... 

The next album in our Cuban Classics series is a hard one to pigeonhole. It’s a real oddity, unique... 

Verve Records is proud to announce (internally) the signing of LA LOM - an instrumental trio deriving from the vibrant tapestry... 

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Hailing from Cyprus's divided capital Nicosia, and led by Antonis Antoniou, the founder of Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, Buzz' Ayaz creates... 

In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working... 

Cuban music has a new global ambassador: Cimafunk. With a name and image that pays tribute to the Cimarrons – Cubans of African descent that... 

The haiku of the soul becomes transparent through Manoshi Chitra Neogy’s Word Art. As an... 

The compilation flows through different East African and South African genres from Congolese rumba and soukous to 1980's... 

Continuing the Mr Bongo Cuban Classics Series, we shine a light on Los Reyes 73 and their sensational... 

GRAMMY-nominated Orquesta Akokán continue to vibrantly usher the mambo into the 21st century and offer a glorious return to the iconic grooves... 

Olatuja is a band, a project, an album full of the uplifting, joyful music of... 

Grammy®-winning Arooj Aftab is set to release Night Reign, the follow up to her critically-acclaimed album Vulture Prince, on 31 May on... 

Following the great success of BBE's 2023 reissue of Remi Kabaka's 1976 lost masterpiece 'Son of Africa' comes yet another neglected and... 

Asmaa Hamzaoui stands out as a pioneering female figure in the traditionally male-dominated realm of Gnawa music. With her... 

We are more than thrilled to share a second collection of deep grooves and unreleased songs from Algeria's Ahmed... 

The Zawose Queens are Leah and Pendo Zawose of the Tanzanian Wagogo people, whose joyous otherworldly vocals and polyphonic rhythms on... 

Introducing 'Azerbaijani Gitara vol. 2' by Rehman Memmedli, the eagerly awaited sequel to Bongo Joe's acclaimed debut featuring... 

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the reissue of Norio Maeda's cult classic "Rock Communication Yagibushi" released... 

The next release in the Mr Bongo Cuban Classics series, is one of Juan Pablo Torres' most-known and loved albums, the iconic... 

Out May 3, 'Funeral For Justice' is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close... 

'Neon Colonialismo' is the new album -the first under his name since 2014- by musical agitator Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, one of the main... 

Iranian women have not been permitted to sing solo in public since the 1979 Iranian Revolution - Together, vocalist Maliheh... 

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... 

Derya Türkan has been the world’s most influential Istanbul kemençesi performer for almost three decades now. He has performed... 

SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) stole our hearts back in 2022 when we released their album Force Of The Wind to critical acclaim. Here we proudly present the predecessor to... 

The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home... 

With their dulcet fusion of ‘60s French ye-ye pop, slinky Studio One reggae, and liminal Brazilian... 

‘The Room’ is a collection of folkloric pieces from various regions around South America, as interpreted by Fabiano do... 

Jazz snare & ride cymbal meet classical Indian tabla & pakhawaj! What happens when one of the best jazz drummers of all... 

Rich in ancestral flows, between Ghana and Europe, powered by deep, conga led rhythms and seductive warm horn riffs come Jembaa... 

For the third release in our Mr Bongo Cuban Classics series, we reissue the iconic 1974 debut album by the mighty Grupo... 

Maria Rita is a musical pioneer that was ahead of her time. On first hearing her song, 'Cântico Brasileiro No.3 (Kamaiurá)’, we thought it... 

For the second instalment in our Cuban Classics series, we proudly present this sought-after slice of sublime Afro-Cuban jazz from 1976. It... 

Bombino is back with a brand new studio album - Sahel. The new record is Bombino’s first full album in over five years, and follows 2018’s Deran, which... 

WITCH was the first band in Zambia to release a commercial album — 1973’s Introduction. Blending the rock and roll sounds of UK rock bands like The... 

Musicians Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily proudly announce a collaborative album, Love In Exile, out... 

Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté are both well-known soloists in their own right, but this... 

From beloved composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, a revelatory new album of piano pieces, unreleased or virtually inaccessible until... 

Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção's 'Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei' has to be up there as... 

Jorge Ben is surely one of the world’s greatest all-round musical artists. He is internationally renowned and vastly influential as... 

Arooj Aftab took home the Grammy® for Best Global Music Performance for her song “Mohabbat,” a track off her breakthrough album... 

This one takes us back! We originally reissued Waltel Branco's 'Meu Balanço' in 1995, it was one of the first releases to come out on... 

Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact... 

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is revered as the Simigwahene in Ghana – The King of Simigwa-Highlife. Because of his deep, soulful, and... 

Módulo 1000 were not messing around when they made 'Não Fale Com Paredes’. It... 

Released on September 23rd on Dead Oceans
Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and... 

A brand new 4LP box set bringing together the incredible 1970s recordings of Afrofuturism pioneers The Pyramids, led by... 

Adrian Quesada (of Black Pumas) is set to release 'Boleros Psicodélicos,' a sprawling and singular tribute to the golden era... 

Etran de L’Aïr (or “stars of the Aïr region”) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock. Playing for over 25 years, Etran... 

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Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music... 

Sangaré is renowned worldwide for her vibrant and powerful music, which often features revolutionary messages about women’s rights, tradition...