KUTU new album “MARDA” (Naïve / Believe / February 2025) In 2020, amidst the Covid pandemic, Théo Ceccaldi finds himself drawn to Ethiopia for a breath of fresh air. The immediate cultural shock of bustling Addis Ababa, and the encounter with singer Hewan Gebrewold, prove pivotal. Two entirely unknown worlds are tamed, giving birth to the unique sound of KUTU,… Read more →
JOÃO SELVA new album “Onda” (Underdog Records / January 2025) Son of a pastor from Ipanema, the Carioca João Selva is “one of the best ambassadors of Brazilian music” according to France Culture. But that’s not all… his musical universe, full of sunshine and abundance, spans a wide range of musical influences: from Angolan semba to Cape Verdean funaná, from… Read more →
EL GATO NEGRO New album “Crying Tiger” 26th January 2024 15 years of travels in South America and Africa, influenced by cumbia, salsa, paso, cha cha and bolero, Afro-cuban and African musics, meetings with artists like La Yegros, Calypso Rose, Oxmo Puccino, Guts, etc., the French artist El Gato Negro mixes all his influences to make his own version of… Read more →
NEW ALBUM “HEALING” [Horizon Musiques / April 2024] Listening to Flèche Love is to be transfixed and captivated by a voice, a body, and a message that evoke sensations, emotions, and searing images. It is to become one with the music, the sound, the skin. Amina Cadelli learned baroque music at the conservatory and gets very inspired by her nomad berber origins… Read more →
Album “LEGACY” [Underdog Records / 02 September 2022 ] Rebecca M’Boungou grew up between two cultures, having Congolese roots and living in South West of France. In 2014, Rebecca M’Boungou met the gypsy jazz guitarist and Mandingo percussionist Arnaud Estor, and they created the duet Kolinga. In Lingala (one of the languages of Congo), Kolinga means binding to someone in a close… Read more →
KLÔ PELGAG new album “Abracadabra” (Secret City Records / October 2024) Klô Pelgag is a songwriter, pianist and guitarist from Quebec. Her first LP “The Alchemy of Monsters” won many prizes and was acclaimed by the critics in Canada. With the last one “Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs” she has reached nearly 3 million streams, and #1 on the Quebec charts and #2 in… Read more →
New album « The Same Tree » [L’Inlassable Disque / September 2022] Listen Since The Selenites was created in 2008, not a continent that has not heard the retro futuristic sounds of the men of the moon. With more than 200 concerts to date, in Paris, New York, Dakar, Bombay, London, Istanbul, Bangalore, Los Angeles, Bangui, Douala… From Asia to America, from Europe to… Read more →
New album “O Paraiso” (Nø Førmat ! / January 2023) The Bahian artist Lucas Santtana’s ninth solo album, “O Paraiso” urges us, in ten songs, to modify our line of thought: Paradise exists, right here, right now. It might be wounded but it’s still showing signs of life. We’re responsible for its long term survival, and also, partly, for its constant metamorphosis. Though gentle and full of… Read more →
“MAMA FORGOT HER NAME WAS MIRACLE” [2022.03.11/ Warner] Born in Canada to Haitian parents and based in Paris, the singer looks on her relationship to the voodoo pantheon and her rituals to cultivate magic on a daily basis, mystical and musical rituals because according to her, “singing means praying twice”. Since her debut in 2008, Mélissa Laveaux has sown little clues as to… Read more →
The legendary Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo of Cotonou is much more than just a music band in Benin and Western African countries, it is like a banner. After the release of their last album “Madjafalao” at Because Music in 2016, and successful tours at Fall 2016, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018, the famous orchestra will be back on tour at Spring/Summer 2020 with a… Read more →
