The selection of ~40 tracks includes, as usual, a "best of" compilation featuring the finest tunes we've encountered in January, concluding the playlist with elements that shape our musical preferences.
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Future Pasts is the debut album from Konkolo Orchestra, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Alexis Malefakis - steeped in the rich traditions of jazzy afrobeat and highlife,and paying homage to legends like Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, and Ebo Taylor.
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Composed by Paolo Russi, one-half of the brilliant minds behind the Flankup Recordings label, and Marco Lanfranchi (aka Indy), this album is a captivating exploration of Arabic-influenced disco, Afro-house, and Balearic rhythms.
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Ghanaian highlife musician Rex Omar has recently released a self-titled album on Soundway Records. With a career spanning 30 years, Omar has become a prominent figure in the Ghana music scene, pushing boundaries and experimenting with new sounds.
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Serendipia builds upon the foundations of Beltran's previous works, and takes us on a mesmerizing sonic adventure. The title itself hints at the joy of delightful surprises, and this album delivers just that.
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Barcelona's renowned record label, Canela En Surco, proudly unveils the mesmerizing collaborative debut album from Pedro Ricardo & Damián Botigué. Un Nuevo Amanecer, translated to ‘A New Dawn’, is a magnum opus that has been crafted over four years.
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60 for the soul. May went by supersonic in the waves of the usual eclectic features we made over this month.
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"Mar De Fora” takes us into a candombe and bossa nova jam with spacey features. The sixth track of "Un Nuevo Amanecer" is a delight to our soul, featuring Félix Rossy on trumpet and Luís Táñez on cajón and guitar.
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The Motherland EP, released last friday by Heist Recordings, is a captivating EP and a tribute to the infectious rhythms and grooves that the immense African continent has to offer.
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March is typically a month, in which, an overwhelming amount of great music is released. As the great work of independent artists and labels further spans worldwide, it is truly remarkable the amount of original, creative and groovy inputs we are constantly receiving at o sótão.
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We're hyped to present our latest playlist of 50 tracks. This compilation showcases our favorite jams from February, and it's one of the most diverse ones yet. We've got classic house music, broken beat, ambient, neo-soul, and mind-blowing contemporary beats that defy convention.
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Tunico's debut album blends Brazilian roots rhythms with global jazz, creating a groovy and mystical sound. Featuring musicians from Rio, it's a modern classic that captivates listeners.
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Pedro Ricardo presents a magnificent piece that we sense as timeless. Curated by Soundway Records, Soprem Bons Ventos is a 9-track journey that encompasses nostalgia, love, longing, and togetherness, tenderly intertwined throughout with vibrant percussion, whispers of vocals, soaring keys, and delicate guitars.
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70 tracks for the soul. November went by supersonic in the waves of the usual eclectic features we made over this month. Contemporary jazz from some of today’s greats, exciting new hip hop records, electronic bangers for the winter and, through the whole selection, true-to-the-soul creations.
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The Mindelo Experiment fuses typical Cape Verdian textures with London’s broken beat percussion patterns and details. Following up on his previous ‘experiments’, Pascal’s new album features an A-Side of original recordings backed with a B-Side of incredible remixes by some of our ‘heroes’.
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DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson present a new funky trip through afro influenced electronic soul textures. 2+ is composed by 15 tracks of eclectic, soft, deep and funk, where electronic grooves are hand in hand with soul music, afro beat and bossa nova.
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Soundway Records has been reminding and introducing us to historic works from artists like Steve Monite, Kiki Gyan and many more. Dropping tomorrow, Charles Amoah’s Sweet Vibration is another Ghanaian legendary work from one of the most well-known disco and burger highlife artists of his time.
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Although we were out for most of August, this month was rich in new releases from some of the most exciting artists in the independent music realm. There are infinite layers of music always to be discovered. The deeper we dig the less we actually know.
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We’ve been writing for a while about musicians like K15, Jitwam, Henry Wu or Felipe Gordon. Their new projects represent new approaches to their, already, immense talent and vision. But, as always, we are about new stuff. All in an eclectic 35-track selection.
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Sol Set present an album that arrives just in time for all those escapades in the sand, the long meanders in the deep blue, the hangs with friends and strangers alike.
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