First release in the Cities of the Diaspora 7 inch vinyl series. São Paulo is in the spotlight with a single featuring two great bands.

Afrobeat was in vogue some years ago. Everyone was looking at Africa for inspiration especially in the music and words of Fela Kuti, the great Nigerian musician who fathered Afrobeat from West Africa’s Highlife and the Afro-American funk that he encountered after being in contact with the Black Panthers in the US.

with DANIELLE ALMEIDA, CHIMURENGA (NTONE EDJABE), OLIVIER MARBOEUF, TROPICAL DIASPORA (DJ GARRINCHA, DJ DR. SÓCRATES)
curated und moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Global release of “Orgullo aDe Barrio” Live @ Oblomov Kreuzkoelln Berlin

RAPadura Xique-Chico RAPadura is a Brazilian poet, singer, rapper, music producer and activist who builds his work on a contemporary mix of rap and the tradition of the popular culture of the Northeast Region of Brazil. Digital Released in 2020, the album “Universo do Canto Falado” was the first official album by the musician RAPadura. The project features twelve original songs, maintaining the same style that revolutionized Brazilian Rap in 2010 from his first mix-tape called “A Fita Embolada Do Engenho. With rhythms ranging from regional, psychedelic rock, pop to the artist’s roots in conscious rap, with the well-known speed...