The dreamlike fourth album from Syd Matters, Brotherocean, defies current trends and confirms that creative juices are still flowing for the Parisian folk rock quintet.

Keen to dust off some of Om Kalthoum’s vast repertoire, the Tunisian singer Ghalia Benali has chosen to rework some of the Egyptian legend’s songs on her new album Ghalia Benali sings Om Kalthoum...

Didier Awadi recently released Présidents d’Afrique in Senegal, a rap album about history that dusts off some of the speeches made by the continent’s major political figures ...

In stepping out onto the international scene using her own name, Cameroon singer Kareyce Fotso has chosen to lay herself bare, simply accompanied by her guitar and percussions, on an album entitled Kwegne.

Malian singer Idrissa Soumaoro won the RFI Découvertes award back in 2004 and then stopped producing records. The silence has been broken with the release of Djitoumou, ...

The Inspector Cluzo may have a low profile in their home country of France, but they’ve been making waves internationally with their out-of-control rock act. ...

For their second album the Paris-based group Hey Hey My My have changed musical direction, moving away from folk towards an energetic pop sound.

The internationally renowned singer Arno has chosen Brussels, capital of his native Belgium, as the backdrop of his new album Brussld. The cosmopolitan nature of the city is reflected in this multi-faceted album...

Mwaliko is the new album from Benin native Lionel Loueke. On this latest release, the singer/guitarist’s talents stretch well beyond the jazz stylings he is known for.

A new release from Françoise Hardy is always an event. With her 26th album La pluie sans parapluie, Hardy recreates her fragile world, calling on a new generation composers...

Only a few months after recording a first album together, In the heart of the Moon, Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré were back in the studio in London for another...

Tamikrest’s debut album Adagh is named after the Adagh des Ifoghas – one of the most beautiful regions of the Sahara – and demonstrates the new energy of the young Tuareg generation.

On his latest album M20, Côte d’Ivoire native Meiway celebrates twenty years of his urban African dance music zoblazo.

Faudel’s new album Bled Memory highlights the singer’s dual culture, as well as his love of the old Maghreb standards. And yet this return to his roots ...

Following a long stay in Jamaica which triggered his initial success, French singer Pierpoljak is now back with a new album, Légendaire sérénade, ...

Almost three years after the release of his debut album, Bibi Tanga is back in the news with an excellent follow-up: Dunya. On this second album, ...

Recorded among the dunes of the Sahara, Smaa Smaa is the second album from Algerian singer and musician Hasna El Becharia, ...

Benin native Angélique Kidjo has released her second album, Õÿö, reflecting the broad range of influences that made the artist what she is today. ...

It has not been easy to pinpoint Nilda Fernandez, whose music has flitted from Russia to the Caribbean and French to Spanish. Now he is back in the fold with his superb eponymous album, ...

Two weeks before Gainsbourg (vie héroïque, a heroic life), directed by  Joann Sfar, hits the big screens, the original soundtrack is being released as a double CD, featuring actors  from the film along with Dionysos, Nosfell and Emily Loizeau…

Less than a year after his album Duos, the dashing eighty-something-year-old has released Charles Aznavour & the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, and a new book of memoirs.

Renaud transforms thirteen traditional Irish songs into as many new French numbers in Molly Malone, released three years after his last album, Rouge sang.

Adama Yalomba may not be well-known in Europe, but he is no newcomer to the 'world music' scene. On the contrary, the young Malian musician has accompanied an impressive number of African stars to date ...

Eddy Mitchell is a busy man. In a year's time, the veteran French music star will be kicking off his final farewell tour and releasing an album of new material. ...

Benjamin Biolay - a singer, songwriter and composer renowned for his insatiable musical appetite - is back in the news with a bumper double album entitled La Superbe. Just two ...

The most striking thing about Gérald De Palmas's new album, Sortir, is that it does not sound like an album made by one man alone. Ranging across an impressively broad ...

Veteran French electro duo Air float freer than their oxygen-light name on Love 2, a down-tempo chill of an album full of reverential seventies references.

Richard Bona, the virtuoso bassist from Cameroon is back in the news with The Ten Shades of Blues. This brilliant road-movie of an album roams across the global landscape, ...

Silvain Vanot's sound has always floated beyond passing fads and music trends, allowing the sensitive singer-songwriter from Normandy to build a reputation as a free and independent spirit. ...