| CD 31045 - Release date: 2026-10-02 | | BANDUA | | Bandua II | | |
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| | CD 31047 - Release date: 2026-10-02 | | BANDUA | | Bandua | | |
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| LP 31044 - Release date: 2026-06-12 | | ZAWA ZAWA | | Meditation On Violence | | | Zawa Zawa consists of the two internationally acclaimed musicians and artists: Lisa Nordström (flute, voice, electronics) and Mika Takehara (vibraphone, percussion). A dynamic meeting between two very expressive and highly individual artistic spheres. Musically, they move seamlessly between composi ... |
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| | CD 31042 - Release date: 2026-04-24 | | DOREA | | O Que Mais Você Quer Saber De Mim? | | | A troubadour from Salvador (by the sea), Dorea continues his calm and introspective approach on his second album, a folk-rock and stripped back affair that brims positivity and gives thanks to the beauty of his city, culture and people from the Northeast of Brazil. |
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| CD 31041 - Release date: 2026-02-20 | | IAN LASSERRE | | America Zureta | | |
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| | CD 31039 - Release date: 2025-05-30 | | VOTIA | | Vie Kaz | | | A brand-new Maloya album from the "band family" around lead singer Marie-Claude Lambert-Philéas from La Réunion is available as a CD in a digipack and as an LP on Ajabu!.
Marie-Claude Lambert-Philéas is the daughter of the late musical legend Gramoun Lélé, a legendary representative of Mal ... |
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| CD 30299 - Release date: 2024-09-13 | | TIGANA SANTANA | | Caçada Noturna | | | The seventh album by Tiganá Santana, recorded in Serpa, Portugal, alongside musicians and friends Leonardo Mendes and Ldson Galter, is, at its core, an album anchored in string instruments; that is, in guitars, various bass modalities, thus realizing a project mainly aimed at presenting songs that ... |
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| | CD 31037 - Release date: 2024-06-28 | | ASMAA HAMZAOUI & BNAT TIMBOUKTOU | | L'Bnat | | | Asmaa Hamzaoui is the foremost female ambassador of Gnawa music. With her group Bnat
Timbouktou, she delivers a contagious brand of evangelistic desert blues.
Even though women are essential to Gnawa rituals, there has not been many female Gnawa
musicians. Asmâa Hamzaoui and the group Bnat Timbo ... |
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| CD 31035 - Release date: 2024-02-23 | | LUIZGA / EDGAR VALENTE | | AIÊ | | | "In Yoruba language, 'AIÊ' refers to the 'world of the living': the world where physical encounters take place, where the presence and magic of improvisation are celebrated, and where music and words are living proof of the power of vibration, opening portals of contact with the spiritual world.
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| | CD 31033 - Release date: 2023-12-01 | | NATHAN FRANCIS | | The House That Bobby Built | | | BLURB SINGLE 1: The House That Bobby Built
As the new album's title track and the first single, "The House That Bobby Built," serves as both a centerpiece and a departure from the more hard-bop oriented material found elsewhere. This homage to the legendary vibraphone and marimba player, Bobby Hut ... |
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| CD 30306 - Release date: 2023-09-29 | | MAHER CISSOKO | | Kora World | | | BLURB
Maher Cissoko was born to be a kora player in one of the greatest Griot families in Casamance, Senegal. Maher has embellished the tradition and developed his own explosive and danceable style. Besides playing the kora, he is also a percussionist, which you can hear in his rhythmical way ... |
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| | CD 30314 - Release date: 2023-06-02 | | Irma Ferreira | | Em Cantos De Orisa | | | Among Oríkìs and Àdúrás, the album “Em Cantos de Ori? ” (Ori? Chants) by the singer Irma Ferreira, shows some of the beauty of the Afro-brazilian religious repertoire of the Candomblé, in a junction between tradition and contemporary music.
It has nine songs divided between prayers ... |
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| CD 30308 - Release date: 2023-05-12 | | PEDRO ROSA | | Midnight Alvorada | | | Brazilian composer, guitarist and singer Pedro Rosa release his debut album Midnight Alvorada May 12th. Pedro, who was born in São Paulo in Brazil but have lived in Spain for over 15 years, has a long musical road behind him and soon share his debut album that reveals his most intimate and resp ... |
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| | CD 30310 - Release date: 2023-04-28 | | Athos | | To Know Where It's Going | | | With a background in classical music, brothers, Anthony and Demetri Kastellani embarked on an excavation of their Cypriot heritage through a common education of bond and blood. Recorded in their ever changing home studio, their often aleatoric approach to recording encouraged a curiosity in each oth ... |
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| CD 30301 - Release date: 2023-01-27 | | IAN LASSERRE | | Meu Unico Medo E Primavera | | | Brazilian singer-songwriter Ian Lasserre will release his third studio album, ‘Meu Único
Medo É Primavera’ (ajabu!) on January 27th. With a production focused on mixing the
contemporary jazz genre with MPB, the album shows that the artist reinvented himself
during the 2-year hiatus without ... |
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| | CD 30302 - Release date: 2022-10-28 | | DAWDA JOBARTEH | | Do You Know A Place Called Flekkeroy? | | | Dawda Jobarteh is a Gambian kora player decenting from a long line of Mandinka griots. Unlike other boys in the family, he played percussions rather than the kora and did not begin to learn playing the 21-stringed harp before moving to Denmark in his early 20s. His music is an expression of the osci ... |
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| CD 30295 - Release date: 2022-09-09 | | ANTONIS ANTONIOU | | Throisma | | | Following his critically acclaimed debut solo album Kkismettin, Antonis Antoniou, the driving force behind awardwinning
bands Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, has returned with another unconventional and skillfully
produced solo album, expanding his musical language even further towards exhilarati ... |
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| | LP 30294 - Release date: 2022-07-08 | | MAHER CISSOKO / SOUSOU CISSOKO | | Africa Moo Baalu | | | Multiple award-winning Senegalese/Swedish duo crossingborders in theirmusic just like in theirlifetogether. Constantly on the movewith musical and human meetings as their principal driving force. Maher wasborn to play kora and Sousou is oneofveryfewfemale kora players in the world.
Sousou& Maher Ci ... |
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| CD 30291 - Release date: 2022-05-20 | | RAF VILAR | | Cliché | | | Back in 2011, this London-based Brazilian singer-songwriter brought out a first album with the somewhat misleading title, Studies in Bossa Nova. It had some moments of true promise, but was a bit of a mixed bag. Over ten years later, he’s fully realised that promise in the eight beautiful songs th ... |
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| | CD 30297 - Release date: 2022-04-08 | | NATHAN FRANCIS | | Diamond Back | | | Diamondback is Nathan Francis' sophomore album and the first to feature his own original compositions. This project brings together some of the biggest names in Finnish Jazz music and demonstrates Francis' prowess as both a bassist and composer. "The album was really created continuously over the ... |
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| CD 30298 - Release date: 2022-04-01 | | LA BRIGIDA ORQUESTA | | Antipoda | | | The Chilean eleven piece band La Brígida Orquesta released their first album in 2017 and have since then taken the audience in Chile by storm with there own unqiue mix of Jazz and Hip Hop with powerful lyrics. The band is led by pianist and composer Gabo Paillao (Ana Tijoux, Portavoz) and fronted ... |
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| | CD 22547 - Release date: 2021-09-03 | | MAHER CISSOKO | | Cissoko Heritage | | | After 4 albums as part of the internationally successful duo Sousou & Maher Cissoko, Maher
Cissoko is now releasing the sequel to his acclaimed solo album Kora Fo. Sweden based record
label ajabu! has followed Maher's career from the start and has also released Sousou & Maher's
joint albums and is n ... |
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| CD 22543 - Release date: 2021-04-02 | | ANTONIS ANTONIOU | | Kkismettin | | | Kkisméttin is the first solo album of Antonis Antoniou, founder and driving force behind the award-winning bands Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke. In his native Greek-Cypriot tongue, Antoniou blends together soundscapes and textures he has accumulated during the course of his adventurous musical jou ... |
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| | CD 22545 - Release date: 2021-03-26 | | NATHAN FRANCIS | | NFQ | | | Helsinki-based US bassist Nathan Francis steps up as a bandleader with his debut project Nathan Francis Quartet. Together with a grade-A cast of Finnish musicians, thefour-piece presents some of Nathan's favorite tunes from the standard repertoire (J.Hicks, C. McBee & J. Coltrane) as well as origina ... |
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| CD 22541 - Release date: 2021-02-05 | | ARYA ARAMNEJAD | | Touch Of Freedom | | | Arya Aramnejad became famous for his song "Ali Barkhiz" where he denounces the Islamic regime's
crimes during the 2009 Ashura protests. After this, he was jailed and tortured. He then was released
and condemned to 1-year prison. He sang several other songs for the Green Movement of Iran
including "Y ... |
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| | CD 22539 - Release date: 2020-11-27 | | MAZAHER | | Zar | | | Mazaher is one of the rare ensembles in which women play a leading role and are connected
to a most ancient tradition practiced in several countries in the region of Egypt. The musicians
of Mazaher: Um Sameh, Um Hassan, Nour El Sabah are among the last remaining Zar
practitioners in Egypt. The music ... |
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| CD 29231 - Release date: 2020-04-13 | | IAN LASSERRE | | Atimo | | | (Átimo)”Trice” a word that means the instant or in the moment, is the second album of Ian Lasserre. Trice explores the relationship between instant image and the bigger instant of living. We find ourselves in the end of the second decade of the new millennium not being able to see each other we ... |
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| | LP 22534 - Release date: 2020-03-20 | | MITU | | Tandem | | |
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| CD 22536 - Release date: 2020-02-28 | | TIGANA SANTANA | | Vida-Código | | |
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| | CD 20175 - Release date: 2019-10-25 | | MIKA TAKEHARA | | Silence | | |
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| 7" 19896 - Release date: 2019-10-25 | | TIGANA SANTANA | | Vida Codigo / Meios | | |
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| | CD 22531 - Release date: 2019-10-18 | | ASMAA HAMZAOUI & BNAT TIMBOUKTOU | | Oulad Lghaba | | |
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| CD 20174 - Release date: 2018-05-11 | | MAHER CISSOKO / SOUSOU CISSOKO | | Made Of Music | | |
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| | CD 20173 - Release date: 2017-11-17 | | SONICA SEQUENCE | | Volume | | |
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| CD 22553 - Release date: 2017-08-25 | | MITU | | Cosmus | | |
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| | CD 20172 - Release date: 2017-06-09 | | MAHER CISSOKO | | Kora Fo | | |
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