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Asmaa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou

#656 — New music from the African diaspora

African music from Morocco, the Sahara, Niger and Cameroon, and the diaspora in Chile, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada and Australia. Geo and gender politics also poke their way into today's musical adventure.

ARTIST
Title  [Dur.]
Album  (Year)

NEWEN AFROBEAT
Somos el Presente (feat. Joe Vasconcellos) [5:29]
Grietas (Cracks!) (2024)

JEMBAA GROOVE
Dabia [4:54]
Ye Ankasa (We Ourselves) (2024)

Blick BASSY  
Mbondi (feat. Ry X) [3:02]
Mádibá (2023)

Asmaa HAMZAOUI & BNAT TIMBOUKTOU
Lalla Mira & Mira Chelha [4:26]
L'Bnat (due for release on 10 May 2024)

KOLONEL DJAFAAR
Whatever Happened to the Common? [4:30]
Siren's Glitch (2024)

OKAVANGO AFRICAN ORCHESTRA
Ngaisangane (Let it unify) [4:43]
Migration (2023)

Immy OWUSU  
Flashback [4:08]
Lo-Life! (2023)

Abdallah OUMBADOUGOU
Iwouksane [4:09]
Amghar - The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (2024)

Mdou MOCTAR
Imouhar [excerpt ~3:30]
Funeral for Justice (due for release on 3 May 2024)

LASS
Wessounga [3:48]
Passeport (2024)

AUSECUMA BEATS  
Farafina [4:53]
Dakar Bamako (2024)

Theme: Mark Isham — Nanawatai Pt.2 — The Beast (1988)