Almamegretta - In Spiritus Dub (Echo Beach)
With 'In Spiritus Dub' by Neapolitan band Almamegretta we're serving you another healthy dose of highly original Italian dub.
Terra Livre - Seeds, Roots, Flowers And Fruits (Self-published)
Climate activists who're still looking for the ideal soundtrack to liven up their protests, we can highly recommend 'Seeds, Roots, Flowers And Fruits' by the Portuguese Terra Livre.
Rumbaristas - Rumbaristas (Via Lactea Records)
With Rumbaristas, Willy Fuego (Amparanoia, La Kinky Beat), Thomas 'Don Tomasino' Morzewski (Orchestre International du Vetex) and Roel Poriau and Thomas de Smet (Think of One), created a European mestizo supergroup.
Danny I - Life Is In The Blood (I Grade Records)
'Life Is In The Blood' is already Danny I's third album for I Grade Records producer Laurent 'Tippy I' Alfred, but was our first real introduction to the work of this Christiansted, US Virgin Islands born vocalist.
Dub Colossus - Dr Strangedub, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Dub The Bomb (Echomaster)
Dub Colossus, Nick 'Dubulah' Page's pet project, had gone quiet in recent years. For serious reasons it seems: Page had to deal with serious health issues and furthermore decided to finance the new album himself by setting up a crowdfunding campaign.
Various Artists - Two Tribes (Agogo Records)
With this 'Two Tribes' compilation, Tobi Kirsch and Ubbo Gronewold want to give insight into how European musicians are incorporating musical traditions, especially those from the African continent, into their oeuvre these days.
Various Artists - Reggae Mandela (VP Records)
There isn't a music genre around which paid more attention to criticizing the racist and inhuman apartheid regime in South Africa than reggae!
Samora - Moengo (Self-published)
Just when we learned that Dutch reggae formation The Dubbeez were calling it a day, we stumbled upon 'Moengo', the long-playing debut of Surinamese-Dutch Samora Souprayen.
Local Uprising - Local Uprising EP (Roots Musician Records)
'Local Uprising' is the second EP the five-piece band of the same name from Oahu, Hawaii recorded for E.N. Young's Roots Musician Records label.
Marcus Gad meets Tamal - Enter A Space EP (High Records/Baco Records)
On this 'Enter A Space' EP, Marcus Gad seems to have lost his band Tribe, instead joining forces with Parisian beat maker Clement 'Tamal' Thouard.
Ekiti Sound - Abeg No Vex (Crammed Discs)
With Ekiti Sound, London-based Nigerian musician, vocalist and producer Leke 'Chif' Awoyinka created a musical dialogue between two world cities: London and Lagos.
One Root - Soldiers Of Love (Self-published)
Six years after their appropriately titled debut EP 'Revelation', Brussels based One Root with 'Soldiers Of Love', a title we thus far only associated with a very bad 1987 Eurosong contribution by Liliane Saint-Pierre, present a first full-fledged album.
FC Apatride UTD - Third Worldism (Earth Works Outernational)
FC Apatride UTD, our favorite Marxist Serbian reggae football club, is back with a new concept album entitled 'Third Worldism', this time focusing on: "...the implications of unequal exchange and mechanisms of structural imperialism leading to global polarization, inspired by writings of Marxist political economists and contemporary struggles of the global south.".
Nubiyan Twist - Jungle Run (Strut Records)
Three years after the release of their 'Siren Song' EP, Nubiyan Twist returns with 'Jungle Run', the second long player by this band dividing its time between London and Leeds.
Various Artists - This Is Frafra Power (Makkum Records)
After Dutch producer Arnold de Boer introduced the world to the sound of the current generation of Ghanaian kologo players with albums like 'This Is Kologo Power!', Atamina's 'Sycophantic Friends' or Ayuune Sule's 'We Have One Destiny', in the summer of 2017, Francis Ayamga introduced him to the music of the Frafra or Gurunsi, a people from the northeast of Ghana.
Chicos Y Mendez - Esencias (Self-published)
Exactly three years after the release of their debut EP '¡Siempre De Pie!, Chicos Y Mendez, the project around Belgian-Peruvian singer-songwriter David Mendez Yepez and composer/guitarist/keyboard player Thibault Quinet aka Tito, presents a first long player.
Refugees For Refugees - Amina (Muziekpublique)
With 'Amina', Belgian-international musical refugee project Refugees For Refugees presents a successor to its 2016 debut effort 'Amerli'.
Dub Caravan & Hornsman Coyote - Rootical Sojourn (Self-published)
For 'Rootical Sojourn', Serbian trombonist Nemanja Kojić, better known as Hornsman Coyote, once again joined forces with London-based Palestinian composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Felix Russ Abu aka Dub Caravan, after they already collaborated together a first time in 2013 for 'Breathe Of Peace'.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Miri (Out Here Records)
For "Miri", an album on which the ngoni master tackles powerful sentiments like love, friendship and family values, Bassekou Kouyate returned to Garama, his native village situated on the banks of the Niger River, midway between the capital Bamako and Segou.
Philipp Greter - Logic Chaos (Hybrid Records)
Philipp Greter is a Swiss sound engineer from Lucerne and has been the producer and keyboard player of Swiss dub combo Dub Spencer & Trance Hill for many years now. For his solo debut, 'Logic Chaos', Greter breathes new life into the psydub or ambient dub genre.