Since finding the final third piece of their trio last year with the inclusion of Moroccan drummer and singer Salim Akki, Rave At Your Fictional Borders have moved at quite a pace to realise (and release) their first full album ‘Analogue Nomadism’. As always, spontaneity is at the root of their improvised grooves. Their self-titled ‘Global Experimental Music’ was created and recorded over a week in the L’Bridge studio outside Kenitra in Morocco, the resulting album a sprawling collage of trippy textural strangeness and rhythmic explorations that punch and intrigue in equal measures. Read / Listen.
Read More2015-2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years of Sonic Explorations (Bongo Joe) - a review
The brilliant Geneva label Bongo Joe celebrate 10 years of releasing incredible music with a new compilation that really only scratches the surface of what they’ve achieved but includes some absolute beauties from their catalogue. Post-Franco Spanish industrial funk, Amazigh psyche, folky maloya, Turkish funk, contemporary post-punk, Malawian dancing joy or cinematic Indonesian grooves, there’s a wide world to explore on this record. Read / Listen.
Read MoreRave At Your Fictional Borders ‘Entanglement' (Dave De Rose Records) - Video Premiere & Interview
At a roaring pace, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Dave De Rose has already released two separate musical projects this year and has another on its way. Having finally found a permanent third vertex of their adventurous triangle, the multinational Rave At Your Fictional Borders return with two new groove explorations, recorded and beautifully filmed as they were composed on the fly in a studio in Morocco. We are delighted to video premiere ‘Entanglement’ and being greedy and needy, we also tapped them up for an interview. Read / Listen.
Read MoreWaaju feat. Majid Bekkas 'Alouane’ (BBE) - a review
A cross-cultural tour de force from London’s Waaju crew and Moroccan Gnawa master Majid Bekkas on this fantastic live album out now on the mighty BBE! A stunning fusion of Afro-Latin, jazz, psychedelia, Gnawa and heavy heavy grooves recorded in the beautiful Church of Sound in East London, Ben Brown’s new arrangements of traditional Gnawa songs are revelatory, the ensemble’s performance transcendent. Read / Listen.
Read MoreHassan Wargui 'Tiddukla' (Hive Mind Records) - a review
A sublime mini-album of Moroccan Amazigh music by the highly prolific talent Hassan Wargui released soon on Brighton’s Hive Mind Records. The sound of the Anti-Atlas mountains blends yearning voices, complex percussion and the banjo to create a deeply emotional but calming resonance. Read / Listen here
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