African world music meets afro-futurism. The essence of this tradicional instruments meet booty shake electronics shows well in the track Sohaa Gb3k3 – that’s a favorite, hilarious but in a good way.
Onipa – We No Be Machine
Sampa The Great – Birds And The BEE9
Neo-soul, hiphop, world music. Full of positive energies.
Ibibio Sound Machine – Doko Mien
Very summer world-pop.
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus
The new Dead Can Dance album is just wonderful. For some reason I always have the idea in mind that they might go back to work in their early music style like before Into The Labyrinth, but this did not happen this time either and Dionysus just kept pursuing their ethnic music line of work. It is a beautiful continuation of what they did on Into The Labyrinth and Spiritchaser just matured and on a more grandiose scale. I love it.
Ludovico Einaudi – Taranta Project
World music kind of thing. Italian traditional music from Salento mixed with North African and Turkish flavours, tuned to the voices of jazz, rock, folk, and in some cases soundtrack-like grandiose orchestrations. For me it resembles Dead Can Dance on quite a wide range from the medieval sounds to the Spiritchaser’s ethnic fusion. It is a very unique and interesting record.