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06/16/2020 08:57 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used to live around the grounds of the zoo in the country's capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in soukous, with elements of old-school rhythm and blues and reggae. |
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06/16/2020 08:54 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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This Wednesday we will have a live in-studio with them at noon! |
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06/16/2020 08:45 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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From a review in The Guardian: "Les Triaboliques have a distinguished pedigree but are not prolific." It has been nine years since they released their first and only album, Rivermudtwilight, which they described as “distressed string-band music." |
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06/16/2020 08:40 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Check out a review of this album that digs into his music and the layers of this album: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/05/damir-imamovics-sevdah-takht-dvojka-review |
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06/16/2020 08:38 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Curumin is a Brazilian musician whose style incorporates elements of samba, funk, jazz, bossa nova, and hip hop. He sings in Portuguese and speaks fluent English. |
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06/16/2020 08:34 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Sunny Jain (born 1975) is an American dhol player, drummer, and composer. He is recognized as a lead voice in the burgeoning movement of South Asian-American jazz musicians. |
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06/16/2020 08:29 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Alaap were a British Asian live band credited as the founders of British Bhangra. In 2017 the BBC described the group as the 'most prolific' bhangra band. |
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06/16/2020 08:22 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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"When she first came to European attention in 1988, Évora appeared an unlikely candidate for international stardom, yet within five years she was selling hundreds of thousands of CDs, with concert audiences to match." Read her obituary here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/17/cesaria-evora |
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06/16/2020 08:19 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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"Cape Verdean classic from a returning legend (...) Teté´s stunning voice makes it hard not to fall in love with this album. This is a classic that we didn´t know we were missing.” **** Top of The World Review in Songlines (July/August2018) |
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06/16/2020 08:15 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Bandé-Gamboa is a project made up of two All-Star bands, created to reinterpret extremely rare or unreleased tracks from Guinéa-Bissau and Cape Verde, a project explicitly dedicated to the living memory of Amílcar Cabral, the intellectual force and strategist behind the independence of both countries, whose dream was to have them forever united. |
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06/16/2020 08:11 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor. He also served as commissioner for arts and culture in Edo State under the government of Lucky Igbinedion. Uwaifo is famous for his joromi music. He records under the name Sir Victor Uwaifo. |
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06/16/2020 08:00 PM DJ: Darek Mazzone |
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Moroccan dosed Psychedelic Dub Jazz Collective https://clubdelf.bandcamp.com/ |
