Genius of the Kora, and multi awarded singer, composer and musician who has laid down the stages of the world since he was 12, with his invention of the electrified and distorted Kora and amazing groove.
The outstanding guitarist and composer, toured and recoreded with Jimmy Cliff, David Murray, Pharoah Sanders,Amadou & Mariam, Jacques The Syndicate, Linley Marthe , Pat Metheny, Cheick Tidiane Seick, Lisa Simone, Lionel Loueke..
Mr Funk! Trombone star Fred Wesley Jr. is well known for his work at Hit making with James Brown in the 1960s and 70s,. He's made major musical contributions to George Clinton's Parliment/Funkadelic, Maceo Parker & Pee Wee Ellis.
Leader of 2 bands playing Afro Cuban Jazz and Afro Cuban Salsa with a powerful expression from the new generation of Cuban trumpet masters carrying the traditions in a contemporary way.
The awarded piano players performance is breathtaking with a fluent ability to improvise, a true love for Latin and African rhythms, and inspired by all this, and the funky styles of Herbie Hancocks 70s music and avangardistic ideas.
Hailing from a musical dynasty that stretches back 77 generations, Toumani Diabaté's exquisite kora playing has gone global. Now he is joined on a new album by his son Sidiki.
Jal's music can be heard in the movie Blood Diamond and his own story, War Child. At Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert, Peter Gabriel called him an artist "with a potential of a young Bob Marley."
Ghana's Soulgod and hiphop crooner, fuses 808 hiphop beats with a hypnotic traditional Ewe borborbor music samples.'Thought Journey', his upcoming album, engages in an extraordinary fusion of soul, Ewe music and hiphop.
Driscoll contributes with rapping and beatboxing, while Kouyate, who's already a phenomenon in African music circles, blow minds and ears with his hypersonic electrified riffs on the Kora.
It was a straight yes from the two capacities, guitar player Bjarne Roupé (Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie) and Saxplayer Tomas Franck (Joe Henderson, John Scofield, , David Sanborn) to form part of Gonzalez' Afro Cuban Jazz group.
Authentic Afro Cuban Salsa in high level party style. Jari Rojas voice is crispy with a touch of Jazz and Soul. Eliane Perez is a power woman on stage with a vocal that reminds of a young Celia Crúz.
Delasi in a #Thoughtjourney to finding himself, reflects on his relationship with his family and the loss of a loved one—his dad. Delasi fuses 808 hiphop beats with a hypnotic traditional Ewe borborbor music sample on the Mike Millz produced and Dex Kwasi mixed tribute. ℗Delasi 2015
”Ivan Mazuze personifies generosity of spirit on his album.,'Ubuntu'. There is a kind of benevolence and compassion about his work that lifts you, makes you smile and feel good inside. In the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Music is the universal language of mankind”. ℗Losen Records 2015