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The Lions, “This Generation”
Aloe Blacc, Breakestra, MF Doom, Madlib, J Dilla, Madvillain… : the reputation of the Californian label Stones Throw, which specialises in hip hop and soul, is well established…
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Protoje, “The Eight Year Affair”
A direct sequel to "Seven Year Itch", Protoje's new album will satisfy lovers of his music, and may well convince the most sceptical. Like its predecessor, "The Eight Year…
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Nuttea, “Mister Reggae Music”
Nuttea is back! It has been almost ten years since the man discovered as Daddy Nuttea last released an album. A long pause (taken after the commercial disappointment of the album…
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Kiddus I, “Topsy Turvy World”
Kiddus I seems perpetually forced to dodge the pitfalls of a capricious career. Revealed in "Rockers", where he performs his magnificent "Graduation in Zion", Kiddus I was…
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Lek Sen, “Tomorrow ”
Born of the boiling, talented hip-hop scene in Senegal, Lek Sen grew up in Ngor, a fishing village a stone's throw from Dakar. He has now been living in France for almost ten…
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Barrington Levy, “Sweet Reggae Music : 1979-1984”
Barrington Levy's discography is not short of anthologies and other compilations, some of them uneven. After the essential "Teach the youths", released in 2008, which put the…
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The Rockers Disciples & Daba Makourejah, “Far Eye”
Four years after the release of the promising ''Crossroads'' (with singer Chola), the French band Rockers Disciples sign a new opus, "Far Eye", released on RockDis Music, their…
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Takana Zion, “Kakilambe”
Unlike "Rasta Governement", shaped in Kingston in the Jamaican reggae tradition, Takana Zion's fourth album (already!), "Kakilambé", breathes Africa. Recorded in Guinea, in his…
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Pentateuch, “The Genesis”
Three years after meeting at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, the five young members of Pentateuch deliver the album "The Genesis", a most…
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Richie Spice, “Soothing Sounds”
With "Soothing Sounds", his sixth album, Richie Spice follows a path that Clinton Fearon ("Heart and Soul"), Tarrus Riley ("Mecoustic") and Toots Hibbert ("Unplugged at…
