Bandã - O Aniversário da Mariá (Seminal Records)
Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari - Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse Records)
Journey To Nabta Playa is a new album from composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid and multidisciplinary artist and musician Naima Nefertari (aka Karlsson). A powerful meditation on memory, mythology, and ancestral science, the record draws deep inspiration from the ancient astrological stone circle of Nabta Playa, nestled in the remote deserts of Nubia.
Auntie Flo - Outernational Dance (Multi Culti)
Throughout his long career in music, Brian d'Souza aka Auntie Flo has made a name for himself for his adventurous and open-minded approach to music making. Travel and collaboration is key to his work, and over the course of four albums and various singles, he's showcased music made in Cuba, South Korea, Uganda, Brazil and more, often fusing long standing musical traditions, field recordings and artist collaborations with a modern production techniques.
Bandã - O Aniversário da Mariá (Seminal Records)
BANDÃ is the ensemble of Brazilian musicians Juliana Perdigão, Mariá Portugal, Marcela Lucatelli, Carla Boregas, and Marina Cyrino, who together manifest the flavors and freedoms of a sonic world beyond the boundaries of musical genres. BANDÃ is grounded in the affirmation of the sum of outstanding and diverse artistic profiles, with a focus on cross-genre improvisation—drawing from jazz, contemporary classical music, electronics, noise, punk, Brazilian popular song, and folk music coexisting simultaneously.
Battle Elf - 10 (Birdman Records)
Three sonic wanderers make up the band Battle Elf: guitarists Gretchen Gonzales & Chris Peters and drummer David Hurley. Their unified electric sound creates universes from ancient dust, telling tales of battles and redemption. Hailing from Detroit, a hub of industry and culture, each member of Battle Elf absorbed the sounds of the world as they grew.
Bălă - Live at Teatrul 21
Bălă is the tentative alias under which Alex Bălă releases his own music. Alex Bălă is a musician based in Bucharest. He plays in the queer act #FLUID and the krautrock band deathbycoconut and makes music for theatre, dance, film, installations etc
Bernard Parmegiani - Lac Noir - La Serpente 1992 (Sub Rosa)
"At the end of May 1992, in Provence, in his summer studio not far from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Bernard Parmegiani played me the first musical moments he had worked on from the sounds he and Christian Zanési had collected in Negreni in October 1990. A few days after this listening session, on 4th June, I wrote him a letter. I didn't mean to take control of what was to become the ninth movement of his composition, but to share with him some of the resonances I had heard in what he had composed, which mingled with my dreams and memories of the Transylvanian snake-woman, and outlined possible concordances with the other pieces underway for Lac Noir." E. Raquin-Lorenzi
Cantor Arie Ovadia - Hamizrah Mezamer (The East Sings): Iraqi-Israeli Songs ca. 1975 המזרח מזמר (Canary Records)
Born in Kirkuk in the Kingdom of Iraq on May 1, 1937, Arie Ovadia was part of an ethnic minority of several hundred Jewish families in the city made up mostly of Turks, Kurds, and Arabs. As in Syria and the Maghreb, after the foundation of the state of Israel, Jews were oppressed and forced out of their homes. Ovadia was about 14 years old when his family had to resettle in Israel in 1951. He was by that point already very involved with music and researched the music of “oriental” Jews, visiting older singers and enrolling in Nissan-Cohen Melamed (b. Shiraz, present-day Iran 1906; d. Israel 1983)’s Sephardic Cantorial Music school.