5 Tracks You Should Hear This Week
5 essential tracks with a great background story out of Bounty Radio’s S03E13.
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)
Teacher Jekyll — Terrasses de Zéphir
In this episode we checked out two tracks from the forthcoming album ‘Ondas’ by Teacher Jekyll, to be released on April 27 on the label K Bress. Teacher Jekyll is the project of French multi-instrumentalist and DJ Olivier Corr. This producer blends urban vibes with tropical rhythms. Ondas is an album with great diversity. You hear tasty Cuban, soft Brazilian (Bossa, Samba) and powerful Cape-Verdian (Funana, Morna) music. A lot of guest artists appear on Ondas, who all add their own spice to the mix. Sunny tracks are combined with some stronger, more outspoken hiphop tracks.
Afroelectro — Sika Blawa
Dj Tahira, DJ -crate digger- Producer, hails from Sao Paulo, Brazil and is best known for his extensive knowledge of Afro-Brazilian music and numerous edits and remixes of Brazilian music. For the German label Jazz&Milk Tahira compiled a couple of his personal favorites Afro-Brazilian cuts. These tracks, spanning over 4 decades, were championed by Tahira in his sets and podcast. In the selection are some rare and hard to find tracks and also Tahira’s exclusive own killer remix of Gilberto Gil’s A Toda Menina Baiana is included. Luckily for the vinyl and digital collector, these tracks are now (most for the first time) properly released on the compilation Levanta Poeira.
Edmony Krater — Ti Jan ka
Following the reissue of his album “Ti jan pou vélo”, the label Heavenly Sweetness decided to continue the collaboration with Edmony Krater, singer and trumpet player from Guadeloupe, and record a new album — The first one in 30 years! His style takes the local Gwo ka music of Guadeloupe into jazz, with bits of reggae, cadence and other tropical goodness. We listened to the powerful, more electronic new take on his classic ‘Ti Jan Ka’.
Penya — Iyesa
Penya is a 4 piece band hailing from Londen, crafting a very own, subtle futuristic Afro-Latin sound. On their full album Super Liminal, they focus heavily on percussion and dubbed-out melodies. The tracks are unpredictable, timeless and hypnotic with echos of Santeria prayer, trance rituals and congotronics. Penya gained praises by BBC 6, Gilles Peterson, DJ Khalab, DJ Jose Marquez and Dengue Dengue Dengue and we don’t want to stay behind.
Sefi Zisling ft. Nomok — Avocado Dance
Not a new track, but the throwback track of this weeks episode, taken from Sefi Zisling’s album from 2017, Beyond The Things I Know. Zisling is a trumpet player from Tel Aviv. On ‘Beyond The Things I Know’ we find exotic, dreamy and cinematic jazz like this excellent, fresh Avocado Dance.
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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 3 stations and various podcast platforms. The playlist includes brand new electronica, global bass and organic grooves that will take you deep into the tropics.
