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Release : 7 March 2025

ARAT KILO

Danama

World / Ethio-Jazz / Rap
ACCORDS CROISES / BELIEVE / PIAS

ARAT KILO’S ETHIO-JAZZ  + WORDS OF HOPE AND CONSCIOUS RAP FROM MAMANI KEITA AND MIKE LADD

CONCERT IN PARIS ON OCTOBER 3RD 2025
CABARET SAUVAGE

 

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Following their 2018 album “Visions of Selam”, Arat Kilo are back with “Danama”.
While the group’s roots remain in Ethio-jazz, their new album also explores different sounds, from English 2-step to New Orleans brass bands. And the dialogue between Mamani Keita’s song of hope and the social criticism of American MC and poet Mike Ladd is as powerful as ever.

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Release 28 February 2025

Raul Paz

Guajiro Chic

Cuba / Latin
COLOMA / BELIEVE / GALILEO

Raul Paz presents Guajiro Chic –
his warm, political yet danceable new album.

CONCERT IN WURZBURG 31 MAY 2025
AFRICA FESTIVAL

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Guajiro; chic Cuban country music : Raúl Paz unites multiple worlds, bringing together his Cuban identity with 15 years spent in Europe, and his long career with his new young fanbase. A musician of the town and the countryside, the singer-songwriter is releasing “Guajiro Chic”, a warm, political yet danceable new album.

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Release 31 January 2025

MARIO LUCIO

Independance

World / Cape Verde
Maremusica / MDC / Believe

MARIO LUCIO CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
OF CAPE VERDE’S INDEPENDENCE

CONCERT IN PRAIA CAPE VERDE 11 APRIL 2025
KRIOL JAZZ FESTIVAL

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Mario Lucio returns with “Independence”, a seventh opus celebrating this great moment of change in Cape Verde and Lusophone Africa through dance music. A truly celebratory album, in which Mario Lucio revisits the early days of independence – an era of his childhood filled with joy and music.

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Release : 21 February 2025 (vinyl 21 March 2025)

Demian Dorelli

Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left (Echoes on Solo Piano)

Pop / Instrumental
PONDEROSA / MDC

A FRESH BUT FAITHFUL REINTERPRETATION
OF NICK DRAKE’S DEBUT ALBUM

CONCERT IN LONDON 28 MAY 2025
AT SJQ

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Five Leaves Left – Echoes on Solo Piano is pianist and composer Demian Dorelli’s new project, a tribute to Nick Drake’s debut album. The album is Dorelli’s second journey into Drake’s repertoire, following his acclaimed reinterpretation of Pink Moon on solo piano.

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Release CD/DL 18th October 2024
Vinyl Release 24th January 2025

JUSTIN ADAMS & MAURO DURANTE

Sweet Release

Folk / Rock
PONDEROSA / XANGO / PROPER

THE UNIQUE SOUND OF JUSTIN ADAMS AND MAURO DURANTE:
FROM RAW ROCKABILLY TO SUFI ECSTASY.

ON TOUR IN THE UK IN APRIL 2025

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‘Sweet Release’ is the second album from master musicians Justin Adams & Mauro Durante. Drawing on Durante’s Taranta background with Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, as well as his work with Ludovico Einaudi, and Adams’ prolific career as guitarist, with everyone from Sinéad O’Connor to Robert Plant and Tinariwen, their musical landscape ranges from raw Rockabilly to Sufi ecstasy via Minimalism.

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Release October 11th 2024

SOBA

Fiman

Blues / Africa
EDITER À PARIS / MDC / XANGO

SOBA REVIVES THE LINKS BETWEEN MANDINGO SONG AND MISSISSIPPI BLUES.

ON TOUR SPRING – SUMMER 2025

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Formed by singer-guitarist Moussa Koita, harmonica player Vincent Bucher and drummer Émile Biayenda, SOBA renews the links between Mandingo song and Mississippi blues.
Their album ‘Fiman’ (black) reveals an afro-blues as rustic as it is luminous, through which the trio explores the recesses of the human soul.

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