R.I.C. - Blah Blah (BSA Production/Pias France)
The sheer vastness of the French reggae landscape was once again made clear to yours truly by the fact we'd never heard of R.
Nomade Orquestra - Nomade Orquestra (Far Out Recordings)
São Paulo-based Bixiga 70 we already introduced you to, but of course Brazil's largest city is home to a number of other young bands.
Fumaça Preta - Impuros Fanaticos (Soundway Records)
Fumaça Preta (Portuguese for "black smoke") is the brainchild of Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan percussionist and producer based in Amsterdam.
Showarma I Els Falafels - Elements (Kasba Music)
'Elements' is the debut effort by Showarma I Els Falefels, the new band of Marti Vilardebo, drummer with the now defunct Dusminguet.
E.N. Young - Call On Me (Roots Musician Records)
After last year's acclaimed 'Live Love Stay Up', E.
Wicked Dub Division - Red (Self-published)
In 2014, Wicked Dub Division, a trio from Pordenone in the northeast of Italy, were joined by Michela Grena, a former member of B.
Ackboo - Invincible (Khanti Records/Tanta Records)
Ackboo is a young composer and producer from Toulouse presenting his second long player 'Invincible'.
Warrior King - The Rootz Warrior (Rootz Warrior Productions/Zojak World Wide)
Where his output is concerned, Mark Dyer, better known to most as Warrior King, is modest, making 'The Rootz Warrior' only his fifth long player since 'Virtuous Women', his excellent 2002 debut.
Lakou Mizik - Wa Di Yo (Cumbancha)
Of course we all know ex-Fugees Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel, and bands like Boukman Eksperyans and Tabou Combo also vomiting internationally by, but for most the rest of the Haitian music landscape is probably largely uncharted territory.
Konono N° 1 meets Batida - Konono N° 1 meets Batida (Crammed Discs)
For what is already the 6th volume in his Congotronics series, Vincent Kenis introduced the members of Konono N° 1 to Angolan-Portuguese Pedro Coquenão, better known as Batida.
Triston Palma - Lifetime (Rebel Sound Records)
As we never got to hear his 2012 effort 'Feeling Irie', for yours truly I had been since 'Two Roads', released by Easy Star Records back in 2000, that Triston Palmer (or Palma as he calls himself these days) treated us to a new long player.
Dread Daze - Guidance And Direction EP (Rebel Sound Records)
For this five track debut-EP, Californian Dread Daze called on Selwyn Brown and Sydney Miller, both keyboardist/vocalist with Steel Pulse, for some 'Guidance And Direction'.
Shanti Powa - Peaceful Warriors (Self-published/Shanti Powa Records)
When thinking of a band from South Tyrol, you're probably not immediately imagining Shanti Powa: a North Italian formation, founded in 2010 as a sound system crew, but in the meantime grown into a 13 piece band.
Various Artists - Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches From Traditional Mali (Glitterbeat Records)
For 'Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches From Traditional Mali', the second part in their Hidden Musics series, Glitterbeat Records called on producer Paul Chandler, who's been living and working in Mali for over a decade now, trying to document and archive the country's vast music culture.
Young Lords - Rise (Dibyz Music)
'Rise' is the result of a collaboration between HandCart, a backing band from Marseille, and Alex Keren, a singer-songwriter of English-Peruvian descent residing in Paris who already earned his spurs in the pop and soul circuit.
Sara Lugo - Sara Lugo And Friends (Oneness Records)
Over the past few years Munich-based Sara Lugo collaborated with a host of artists inside and outside Europe and Oneness Records has now bundled all these duets for this 'Sara Lugo And Friends' compilation.
UTZ - Todo Mundo E Feio (Naff Rekordz)
Translated from Portuguese 'Todo Mundo E Feio' means something like: "everyone is ugly", but you can also read it as: "the whole world is ugly", a thought many may have shared after the recent tragic events in Brussels.
La Yegros - Magnetismo (Soundway Records)
Mariana Yegros aka La Yegros, the Argentine "queen of now cumbia", who now divides her time between France and Argentina, is back with a second long player for which she once again collaborated with producer King Coya.
Ministry Of Echology - Wanderer (Zona Music)
The reggae genre continues to gain ground, as illustrated by 'Wanderer', the second album by Lithuanian reggae formation Ministry Of Echology.
Rising Tide - Rising Tide (Soulbeats Records)
If we've counted correctly, after Professor and Rockamovya, Rising Tide is already Groundation's third side project.