5 Tracks You Should Hear This Week
5 essential tracks with a great background story out of Bounty Radio’s S03E16.
Twice a month the Bounty Radio podcast highlights new, innovative World Music 2.0. From each episode I select 5 tracks and provide you with their background story. Discover them all alongside more great tropical music in this week’s episode (on Mixcloud)
Gitkin — Grand Street Feast
Gitkin’s Five Star Motel is our Album of the Week. The guitar creates the backbone of this album, inspired by an uncle of Gitkin who used to sell guitars. This salesman used to travel all around the States, recording all kind of music on cassettes as he traveled. Gitkin never met this uncle in real life. But it’s this musical melting pot on these cassettes that started this musical experiment for Gitkin. On this album we find all kinds of influences, ranging from the folky Irish-meets-Tuareg guitars on Grand Street Feast over the chicha inspired El Cancion Del Rey, to the ethereal dub of Ohm Rider.
Ozferti — Deserthop
Ozferti is a Brussels-based producer and visual artist. His productions are combining Ethio-grooves with heavy bass — a rather unique blend of pentatonic melodies on Trap, Grime, Tropical Bass and hiphop. Maybe Deserthop is the best description of Ozferti’s musical universe. Almost each release is accompanied by jaw-dropping visuals, taking ancient Ethiopian references and blending them into these almost sci-fi visual productions. Seeing, and hearing, is believing.
Arat Kilo — Toulo
Arat Kilo’s third album, entitled Visions Of Selam, is a wish for universal peace. Selam means Peace in Amharic. But it’s also the name of the Australopithecus fossil discovered in Afar. What would this individual, born 3 million years ago, think of this world? Malian singer Mamani Keita and rapper Mike Ladd join the Paris-based ethio-groove band Arat Kilo in their quest to explore this theme in their signature ethio-jazz style by blending in Mandinka vocals, rap, afrobeat, groove, dub & more.
Ayuune Sule — What A Man Can Do
Taken from the album ‘We Have One Destiny’ by Ghanaian artist Ayuune Sule, this is the very first release on the brand new, Belgian based Rebel Up Records! You might recognize the voice of Ayuune Sule from the Kologbo-Hiphop combination King Ayisoba who released the amazing ‘1000 Can Die’ (Glitterbeat) in 2017. While King Ayisoba sticks with blending the traditional Kologbo with hiphop, Ayuune Sule adds in addition more urban and electronic sounds. Digital drum patterns and autotune are reflecting the influence from the hugely popular Hiplife, Afrobeats and Azonto. A nice portrait of Ghanaian music in transition.
Sonido Gallo Negro — Danza del Mar
On their third album Sonido Gallo Negro, from Mexico City, explores further the psychedelic richness of Amazonian cumbia . Their futuristic type of cumbia is densely layered. Screaming guitars, swirly synths, voices and percussion come and go in the mix, creating a constantly changing scenery of unpredictably, trippy music in some surprising rhythms like Cha Cha Cha and Mambo.
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Bounty Radio brings you twice a month on future and electronic ‘World Music 2.0’. The show broadcasts since 2015 out of Kortrijk (Belgium) and airs on 4 stations and various podcast platforms. The playlist includes brand new electronica, global bass and organic grooves that will take you deep into the tropics.
