Late Night Tales: Khruangbin is a DJ mix album curated by American psychedelia band Khruangbin for Late Night Tales series, set to be released by Night Time Stories on 4 December 2020. It will include Khruangbin's cover of Kool & the Gang's instrumental tune "Summer Madness". The compilation includes a mixture of various global artists outside of the mainstream music, including South Korean rock band Sanulrim, Belarus band Pesniary, Nigerian musician Maxwell Udoh, and Ethiopian band Roha Band, among others.

Canada’s fastest moving and hardest working collective are back with one of their finest albums to date, a brand new journey into tropical, soul and jazz styles on their scorching new release, ‘Under Burning Skies’.

SONGHOY BLUES is a band whose experiences in Mali have opened their eyes to universal problems plaguing people everywhere. Using the pain and lessons learned from having to leave their hometowns in northern Mali, the band realizes that human rights is a concept that extends far beyond what they have seen with their own eyes and far beyond just the borders of Mali. In order for the band to see their homes restored, they understand the fight must be fought on all fronts, for everybody across the spectrum. They are no longer refugees or exiles or four people with instruments—they are SONGHOY BLUES, a musical voice for empowerment and equality.

Los Van Van, another group which qualifies as an "institution" in itself and which has continued going strong even after the passing of Juan Formell. Somewhat surprisingly for socialist Cuba, the early music of Los Van Van is much more engaged with the psychedelic pop and rock sounds coming from the imperialist countries of the U.S. and England than were in and around Latin New York and the diasporas of Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic. In that sense Los Van Van could be compared to the Tropicália movement in Brazil, freely taking and digesting elements from across the musical spectrum. I'm more partial to their second album, which didn't come along until quite a few years after this debut - it has more of a soul and funk influence - but this record is still great even if it sounds more "dated" because of its paisley and baroque embellishments.

From the beating heart of the capital city Bamako to the rich musical soils of Niafunké, Mali has become synonymous with the raw desert blues sound. Featuring the likes of the legendary Tuareg band Tartit as well as Songhai bluesman Samba Touré, this Rough Guide also includes tracks by other unsung heroes, all of whom share the same goal of preserving a culture under serious threat.

Sidi Toure (born 1959, Gao, Mali) is a singer/songwriter from Bamako, Mali. His music is a type of songhaп blues. He started his career in the Sonhaп Stars, a regional orchestra. In 1984 he won the award of best singer with a song of his own hand at a Mali National Bienale. He won the same prize again in 1986. In 1992 he collaborated with Kassemady Diabate.

The Gipsy Kings' main strength is their consistency. Throughout their career, they have managed to craft an accessible, pop-oriented version of flamenco and gypsy music that also pushes boundaries. During it all, they recorded classy, satisfying albums like Compas. There's not much different about Compas, but since the album is so well made and enchanting, that isn't a curse; it's a blessing.

The artists Lothar Krell and Lenny Mac Dowell have chosen the sun as a symbol of life and nature. For the sun leads through different cultures and accompanies past and future to the beginning of the sun cult, a journey that makes visible the world behind the worlds. The Pharao and sun god Echnaton symbolizes the leading figure on this album. Echanaton's Return is a mixture of natural instruments, the most modern electronics and also a live band. The history of the sun cult and the adoration of sun symbols is wrapped around planet Earth like a cobweb and thus is musically displayed by means of the most diverse musical styles.

One of the pioneering projects in genre of dub-ambient. Ultrabass is a project of Peter Sawatzki (founder of german synthband Boytronic). Peter Sawatzki-Bar released two albums under the name of Ultrabass.
Hypnotic sequential circuits, trancegrooves, ambientfunk, worlddance - house music for meditation. Electronic music has been looking fo fresh impulses since the early eights to renew the at the time not any more progressive Berlin School. Recently the techno, dance and house music artists have displayed a lot of innovation when using elrctronics, sequencers and synthesizers. Ultrabass has been able to capture that imaginative innovation an has injected this electronic "attitude" into the context of contemporary electronic music, but rooting itself in ambient music, trance/dance grooves and hypnotic sequencing.

Innovatively fusing traditional ethnic musics with state-of-the-art rhythms, the work of Deep Forest was best typified by their 1993 "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the contemporary sounds of ambient techno with a haunting traditional lullaby from the Solomon Islands. The project was primarily the work of the French keyboardists and programmers Eric Mouquet and Michael Sanchez; after the latter returned from Africa with boxes of records he'd picked up across the continent, he and Mouquet began sampling the native sounds for use with their atmospheric dance tracks, and with the aid of producer Dan Lacksman, their eponymous debut LP appeared in 1993…

The completely unknown debut album of Issam Hajali (Ferkat Al Ard) fuses jazz and folk with Arabic and Iranian influences into unique beauty. Originally released in a limited run of 75 cassette tape copies.

Tales from the North is the much-anticipated new album from leading Uilleann piper Calum Stewart. Inspired by his native North of Scotland, Tales from the North is a celebration of legend, landscape, people and adventure.