Daily Discovery: Kasba – Hiya Hiya Dounia
Kasba release Hiya Hiya Dounia, a raï song built over salsa rhythms with jazzy horns. The Dutch-Moroccan band blend reggada, raï, and gnawa with rock and funk. New album out later in 2026.
#Kasba #HiyaHiyaDounia #Raï
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Daily Discovery: Orquestra Pacífico Tropical – Entre La Montaña
Portland cumbia band Orquestra Pacífico Tropical release Entre La Montaña, a walk toward ancestry searching for empathy and compassion. From their third album El Poder, out 19th June.
#OrquestraP
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Daily Discovery: Hamraaz – Abar Kuh
Hamraaz release Abar Kuh, the title track from their debut album blending Iranian and Armenian maqam with duduk, tar, and flute via AudioMaze. They play Oranjewoud Festival and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam in May.
#Hamraaz #AbarK
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Daily Discovery: Piper Street Sound – Under Siege (feat. General Pecos)
Early digital dancehall from Clarkston, Georgia. General Pecos over deep bass and spring reverb, mixed by Naram.
#PiperStreetSound #UnderSiege #GeneralPecos #Dancehall #Dub
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Daily Discovery: Wesli – Ayayay
Kongo dance rhythm through merengue, zouk and soukous. "Ayayay" is a carnival song from Wesli's Makaya, named after a mountain range in southern Haiti. Out on West Urban Productions.
#Wesli #Ayayay #Makaya #Haiti #Canada #Souko
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Daily Discovery: Calle Mambo – Acordeón Rebelde feat. Kumbia Boruka
Chile's Calle Mambo and Mexico's Kumbia Boruka release Acordeón Rebelde, a tribute to Celso Piña combining Andean instruments with Monterrey cumbia
#CalleMambo #KumbiaBoruka #AcordeónRebelde
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Daily Discovery: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains – Arte & Vida feat. Ëda Diaz
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains reworked UTO's "Art & Life" into "Arte & Vida" with Ëda Diaz, adding Spanish lyrics, Latin rhythms, and call-and-response vocals. From the new album Hala
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Daily Discovery: The Klezmatics – "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)" feat. Sofia Rei
The Klezmatics & Sofia Rei recorded Woody Guthrie's 1948 protest song in English, Yiddish & Spanish, arranged as a ranchera. From We Were Made For These Times, out 1st May v
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Daily Discovery: Chiminyo – Technicals Inside
NRG 5 – live session at Peckham Levels with Oscar Jerome, Kaidi Akinnibi, Charlie Stacey, Rudi Creswick, Magnus Mehta. Out 8th May.
#Chiminyo #TechnicalsInside #NRG5 #London #Jazz #Electronica
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Daily Discovery: Macho Beta Orchestra – Sem Macho Alfa
Gionni Dall'Orto launches Macho Beta Orchestra with Sem Macho Alfa, samba with electronic production and disco influence. With Brazilian vocalist Gil Badaró and producer DJ Farrapo. Out now via WalrusRec
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Daily Discovery: From the Lips to the Moon – And Heavier
Tim Etchells reads about a room getting heavier. Pouya Ehsaei adds drum machine and synths underneath, thickening the sound. Latest single from From the Lips to the Moon's debut, out now on Akazib Records
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Daily Discovery: Eipriil – Same Old Love
Pimienta Records released "Same Old Love" on 23 March, with Eipriil on the vocal and a dub version by Roberto Sánchez. On the vocal cut, she sings over a one-drop riddim with bass, drums and guitar.
#PimientaRecords #R
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Daily Discovery: Nuevos Ríos – La Vida es un Baile
Nidia Góngora and Toulouse trio Reco Reco team up on "La Vida es un Baile", blending marimba de chonta and Afro-Colombian Pacific vocals with electronic production. Out 27 March on ZZK Records.
#NuevosRíos
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Daily Discovery: Hootini – Pendolino
London nine-piece Hootini release "Pendolino", combining a heavy horn front line with a hip-hop beat. The track opens the band's debut EP.
#Hootini #Pendolino #UK #London #Jazz #HipHop
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Daily Discovery: Nawras Altaky – Sababa
Nawras Altaky, born in Syria and now in Utrecht, releases "Sababa" the first single from his debut album ARISE!
This live version was recorded at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the ÁMÀL Ensemble.
#NawrasAltaky
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Daily Discovery: Psyché – Yallah! (feat. MERVE)
Naples quartet Psyché and Merve Daşdemir deliver "Yallah!", moving from Turkish makam slide guitar into a four-on-the-floor Arab techno-rock beat. Out via Four Flies Records, with a live version recorded at Audito
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Daily Discovery: Shkodra Elektronike feat. Redi Hasa – Stuhi
"Stuhi" — storm — features Gheg vocals, cello by Redi Hasa, electronica rooted in Albanian iso-polyphony. Waiting and refusal. Out now on NUDA.
#ShkodraElektronike #Stuhi #Albania #Electronica #NUDA
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Daily Discovery: Νέγρος Του Μοριά & Dennis Green – GreeKs
Kevin Zans Ansong, born to Ghanaian parents in Athens, took Greek hero Kolokotronis' nickname and flipped it. The Old Man of the Morea became the Black Man. His new single "GreeKs" asks who gets to occup
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Daily Discovery: Dubnine – Leave Us Alone (Reggae Uprising Mix)
Birmingham producer Dubnine releases "Leave Us Alone (Reggae Uprising Mix)" on DT Records. The song addresses corporate power and surveillance: "Just leave us alone / Babylon it's your end of days"
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Daily Discovery: Cheikh Ibra Fam – Amoul Solo.
The first single from Adouna (Life) sets Cape Verdean cues, trombone and kayamb against lyrics about fame, wealth and dignity.
#CheikhIbraFam #AmoulSolo #Adouna #Senegal #Afropop #Cumbancha
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Daily Discovery: Samaki – Ek Se Ou Windhoek Toe Nou
From Afronaut, Samaki’s “Ek Se Ou Windhoek Toe Nou” covers Abdullah Ibrahim's composition first recorded in 1983, with 3 horns at the front and guitar, bass, drums and percussion driving underneath.
#Samaki
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Daily Discovery: Priscibel – Seguiré Gritando
Priscibel releases "Seguiré Gritando," a protest and tribute to Colombia and her mother, from debut album Priscibel, out 13 March 2026. Folk-pop and traditional music from Colombia and Norway.
#Priscibel #SeguiréG
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Daily Discovery: Brazzmatazz – Walk The Plank
Ghent 18-piece brass band Brazzmatazz release "Walk The Plank," 2nd single from Crank Up The Pressure, out spring 2026. Steampunk pirate brass with solos by Mathias Van Severen and
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Daily Discovery: Evoéh Q-art – Revolución (Live in Sarajevo)
Barcelona quartet Evoéh Q-art set León Felipe's "Revolución" to music, performed live in Sarajevo on 8 July 2025. From album Músicas Semilla, working with Sephardic and Mediterranean oral traditions.
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Daily Discovery: BCUC – Umdumakhanda
"I want to afford pizza with extra cheese, and I want my name to be known in Ibiza." Soweto seven-piece BCUC release "Umdumakhanda" on 13 March, the 3rd single from The Road Is Never Easy, out 3 Apri
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Daily Discovery: Kristo Numpuby – L'orage
Franco-Cameroonian guitarist Kristo Numpuby rewrites Brassens's 1960 storm love song through assiko on "L'orage," from Brassens en Afrique Vol 2, released 2 December 2025 via Lon Yes.
#KristoNumpuby #Lorage #Cameroon
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"Artistic creation is always the first of our thoughts. The four of us will never take our eyes off the world." Umut Adan on danceable dissent and his new album Başka Bahar / Another Spring
#UmutAdan #Turkey #Anatolian #Psychedelia
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Daily Discovery: Duo Ruut ft. Puuluup – Vastlalaul
Estonian folk duo Duo Ruut release "Vastlalaul" with folktronica duo Puuluup, a traditional Shrove Tuesday sledding song from album Ilmateade, with a DIY video shot on a snowy Estonian hillside.
#DuoRuut
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Daily Discovery: The Quasi Kings – Herb for Me
Columbus, Ohio reggae-rock outfit The Quasi Kings release "Herb for Me" on 6 March, a one-drop dub track featuring Jamaican vocalist Derajah and Ted Browne of Passafire, linked to Ohio's opioid crisis.
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Daily Discovery: Ana Rossi x Ramiro Pinheiro – Fina Estampa
Argentine singer Ana Rossi & Brazilian guitarist Ramiro Pinheiro take Chabuca Granda's Peruvian classic "Fina Estampa" toward bossa nova on EP Sublime Primavera Vol. 2, recorded in Barcelona.
#AnaRossi
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