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Track: Bossa Bandits Share Their Joyful And Infectious Track – The Memories Are Kind

London based latin crossover band – Bossa Bandits have shared their first track, ‘The Memories are Kind’ which is the first track to be release from their forthcoming Album ‘All…

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TRACK: Azmari – ‘Azalaï’: aboard the Brussels Afro/Persian jazz sextet’s caravan

AZMARI is a sextet formed in Brussels in 2015 with a deep take on the North African groove. The name? Well, an azmari is literally “one who praises” in Amharic;…

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Track: Mdou Moctar release new track, ‘Chismiten’; announce new album

In more ways than one Mdou Moctar has come along way since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread beyond Niger across west Africa via the…

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Track: Beat Bronco Organ Trio – Missoula-Nairobi Pt.1

Who knew that people were making music like this in 2020? Well, we dived into the world of Rocafort records with their recent ‘Latin Underground Revolution pt.2’ release, and we…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Umoja’: a fine interweaving of Afro-Anglo guitar pop

DORSET-born Will Dorey is a man with a far-reaching, eclectic musical vision, which he gives to the world via the medium of his recording alias Skinshape. He’s a fellow traveller…

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TRACK: Skinshape – ‘The Sun’: shimmering Afro-Anglo guitars trail fifth LP

SKINSHAPE, the London-by-way-Dorset recording artist, is all set to drop his fifth album for Lewis Recordings on the first Friday in September. If you’ve been over to Skinshape’s world before,…

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EP: Latin Underground Revolution vol. 2: More swinging Boogaloo, Guaguancó, Salsa & Latin Soul from New York City 1968-1972 (3 x 7” Box Set)

Rocafort Records are back with a volume two of some undiscovered / forgotten Latin gems from New York City. Taken from the period 1968-1972, the release comes as a beautifully…

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See: Greentea Peng releases new video for ‘Hu Man’

Over the last few months, South London singer-songwriter Greentea Peng has quickly become a favourite of ours here on Backseat Mafia, so we jumped on her new single Hu Man,…

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See: Pianist Henrick Lindstrand reveals new video for the wistful beauty of ‘Dungen’

Out on October 23rd via One Little Independent (formally One Little India) is ‘Nordhem’, the new album from Swedish pianist Henrik Lindstrand. From it, he’s revealed a new video for…

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Feature: London-based producer Kamau Kuru gives us a track by track on his new album, Oxydental

London-based producer and beatmaker Kamau Kuru has today released his new album Oxydental – a project he described to us as ’a fusion of back-catalogue samples from 70s-era India, Turkey,…

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