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Onyach Pala’s Gweth Is A Reflection on Gratitude, Belonging and the Will to Become
The Watendawili member takes a more personal route on his four-track solo EP, Gweth, drawing together faith, love, cultural expression and the determination to keep moving. There is a particular kind of confidence in recognising how far one has travelled without losing sight of how much further there is to go. It is an understanding…
Nairobi Grooves: Onyach Pala Leads November’s Playlist with “Gweth”
Nairobi Grooves opens November with Gweth, from Onyach Pala’s second studio project. The Dholuo word (local language) for blessings sets the tone for a playlist that moves between gratitude, love, ambition and experimentation. This edition also features new collaborations, regional connections and producers shaping Kenya’s current sound. From Vic West’s production work on records by…
PERUZZI: BEYOND THE PEN, with “INFERNO” Leads This Week’s Afrobeats Heat Different
Peruzzi takes the cover with “INFERNO,” alongside Zlatan and Shoday, as Phyno, Omah Lay, Tiwa Savage and a wide-ranging cast of African artists shape a week of collaborations, creative identity and musical discovery on Afrobeats Heat Different. The Editorial Overview: Different Voices, Shared Musical Histories Peruzzi’s place in Nigerian popular music is an interesting one….
Nairobi Grooves: Detours, New Directions and the Sounds Shaping Nairobi
Nairobi Grooves ends October with a selection of music that captures the range of sounds coming out of Kenya and its wider creative community. This edition moves between hip-hop, Afropop, R&B, Afrohouse, electronic music and contemporary Kenyan sounds. It also brings together established names, emerging artists and collaborations that connect different parts of the East…
Baddo Never Misses a Moment: Olamide Opens a New Chapter on Afrobeats Heat Different
Olamide returns with “Burukutu” as this week’s Afrobeats Heat Different selection brings together Nigerian street-pop, Ghanaian melodies, alternative voices and a new generation of African music makers. A familiar voice, a changing musical landscape Few Nigerian artists have maintained a relationship with popular culture quite like Olamide. Across successive generations of listeners, his music has…
Afrobeats Heat Different: Damola Is Still on Fire as Fireboy DML Opens a New Chapter with ZUKO!
From Fireboy DML and Lojay to Blaqbonez, Cruel Santino, Victony, Gyakie, Sarkodie and KiDi, this week’s 15-track Afrobeats Heat Different follows African popular music through reinvention, collaboration, street expression and the expanding relationships between musical scenes. Fireboy DML returns to the centre of the African music conversation with ZUKO!, his fifth studio album and first…
Bien Joins Quality Control as Label Expands Into Africa, Releases New Single “I’ll Be Okay”
Bien, The Kenyan singer-songwriter begins a new chapter through a joint venture between Quality Control and Courtesy Of, ahead of his forthcoming album, Alusa Continua, scheduled for November 20. Kenyan singer-songwriter Bien has entered a new phase of his solo career through a joint venture between American record label Quality Control Music and Courtesy Of,…
Nairobi Grooves: What If Nairobi’s Sound Is the Conversation Between Its Genres?
From Wakadinali and Buruklyn Boyz to Njerae, Tina Ardor and Keemlyf, the latest Nairobi Grooves maps a city whose musical identity is becoming harder to reduce to a single sound. There is an old temptation when documenting a music city: find its sound. Give it a rhythm, a genre, perhaps a movement with a name….
Afrobeats Heat Different: Mr Eazi’s “Comfort” Leads a Week of Old Languages Finding New Forms
From Mr Eazi and MOLIY’s Ghana-Nigeria conversation to Terry Apala’s reworking of Apala, DopeNation’s Ghanaian rhythmic vocabulary and a new generation of street-pop and rap voices, this week’s Afrobeats Heat Different finds African music moving forward without becoming distant from where it came from. African pop does not have to abandon its old musical languages…
BNXN Returns With Still In Charge, A Six-Track EP Featuring Asake and FOLA
After a run of major releases and collaborations, BNXN opens another chapter with Still In Charge, a six-track EP that sees the Grammy-nominated Nigerian Afrofusion artist embrace a more energetic, carefree side of his sound. Released via EMPIRE, the project follows his No. 1 sophomore album, CAPTAIN. It brings together previously released records with new…