Hugh Masekela – Masekela
South African musician Hugh Masekela has been releasing albums of conscientious music since 1962. Of the many socio-political albums he’s released it is his 1968 album simply entitled Masekela that is the most powerful. It is a timeless proclamation about the constant struggles that face most resistance movements. iCrates took a closer look at the messages...
Frente Cumbiero and the Renaissance of Colombian Cumbia
Unlike the electronic sounds of Mexican Sonidera and Argentinian Cumbia Villera that first hit global soundsystems, the new Columbian approach uses the orchestra as a starting point and preserves a real sense of the Afro-Caribean and its vinyl culture. Mario Galeano is a bass player, a record collector, a music scholar and a composer...
“Ramadan in Space Time”: Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band present Egyptian Jazz
Credited as the founding father of Egyptian jazz, Salah Ragab has recorded some of the most extraordinary and unclassifiable music of modern jazz history. It just took over thirty years to be discovered...
