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Daily Discovery: Etaf – Ambeh امبيه (acoustic)

Kuwaiti singer-songwriter Etaf strips this to voice and guitar. The title is a Kuwaiti exclamation for "really?" and the lyrics call out an inflated ego. Out via EMPIRE.

#Etaf #Ambeh #Kuwait #Acoustic #ArabicMusic
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February 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Daily Discovery: Ras Rabbi x Rafat Ampadu – Keep On Groovin'

Roots and conscious reggae from Sweden and Ghana, "Keep On Groovin'" links Ras Rabbi’s rotmusik with Rafat Ampadu’s soundsystem work, built on 70s & 80s Jamaican rhythms and a shared vocal lead.

#RasRabbi
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February 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Mondocane – Ayawaska

Rome-based DJ and producer Mondocane turns a 2021 ayahuasca ceremony recording from the Pacaya Samiria reserve in the Peruvian Amazon into Ayawaska, the downtempo opener to his field recording-based EP Semillas on Latinambient.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Tremor – Chala & Brasa

"Chala & Brasa" is the 3rd single taken from Tremor’s album Takuy on ZZK Records, built from bombo legüero, tambor chico, cowbells, shakers, slide guitar, berimbau & processed violin over a fixed club-tempo percussion pattern
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February 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Daily Discovery: Bru-Kin - Moto Ya Mama

Lingala vocals on Moto Ya Mama trace the bond between mother and child over hiphop drums & Ray S Zimbabwe’s guitar, taken from the debut album BRU-KIN and tied to their Brussels-Kinshasa mix of soukous, dub, house & R&B
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January 31, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Mina & Bryte - Pockets

Mina & Bryte stay fast on "Pockets", a 150bpm Earth Kicks single built from Ghanaian rhythm patterns, distorted early-dubstep bass and lyrics on money and Accra life.

#Mina #Bryte #Pockets #EarthKicks #Accra #Ghana
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January 30, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Daily Discovery: Obase-Aboli - Wongoro

Wongoro follows Obase-Aboli’s Double 22 keys balafon from Buea seminary choirs to a 2015 jazz course in Abu Dhabi, Ghana projects and his Afrojazz work in the UK.

#ObaseAboli #Wongoro #Cameroon #Balafon #AfroFusion
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January 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Daily Discovery: Hearken Quartet – Boullettes (An Dro)

Hearken Quartet cloise their EP Hȳd with Boullettes (An Dro), an extended Breton chain dance tune built from a Dave Shepherd collection, stretched to eight minutes of balfolk dance music

#HearkenQuartet
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January 28, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Daily Discovery: Nobat – Me Deixa Sambar

Four years on from Elza Soares’s death, Me Deixa Sambar brings Nobat, Elza and BNegão together on a samba built from cavaco, drums, guitar and brass, with everyday lines about working-class lives, pressure and the wish to be
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January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Dub Pistols x Freestylers x Belle Humble – Give You Love

Dub Pistols and Freestylers link with Belle Humble on electronic dub single Give You Love from Enter The Sound on Cyclone Records.

#DubPistols #Freestylers #BelleHumble #GiveYouLove #UK
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January 26, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: De Mar y Río – Pescandito (Making Of)

New Pescandito making-of video from De Mar y Río, tying their Bailen y Gocen debut on Palenque Records to Timbiquí fishing life and Pacific Colombia marimba.

#DeMaryRio #Pescandito #Colombia
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January 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Daily Discovery: Wunmi – Bottom Line (ICE)

Wunmi’s "Bottom Line (ICE)" is a long-shelved Afrobeat protest track on migration and cheap labour, written with producer Jeremy Mage fifteen years ago.

#Wunmi #BottomLineICE #Nigeria #UnitedKingdom #Afrobeat
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January 24, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Underground Spiritual Game – Notes

Brooklyn trio Underground Spiritual Game strip baritone sax, electric bass and drums down on Notes, from debut LP Of Time on Vibromonk Records.

#UndergroundSpiritualGame #Notes #OfTime #NewYork #EthioJazz #Afrobea
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January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Daily Discovery: Rocky Dawuni - I Got A Song feat. Cedella Marley

Rocky Dawuni’s I Got A Song with Cedella Marley ties Aboriginal songlines to a new animated lyric video for AQUARIAN Records and Tuff Gong International.

#RockyDawuni #CedellaMarley #Reggae
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January 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Daily Discovery: Siraj Al-Ruh - Mirrors

Siraj Al-Ruh wrote Mirrors the day after he got fired, with a blunt line about judgement turned back on himself. The pop/R&B single is on Is the Light On? out 17/01 via Girls, Gays, and Theys Entertainment

#SirajAlRuh #Mirrors
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January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Daily Discovery: SHĀHERI - BANDITĀ Banditā from the debut EP Persiādelicā pulls 1970s Persian psychedelic funk into an LA surf guitar setting, led by Emmy Award-winning composer Jonathan Shaheri. #SHĀHERII #BANDITĀ#PERSIĀDELICĀĀ #UnitedStates #Iran #Persian rhythmpassport.com/?p=166793
January 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Kon-Fusion feat. Mixe Represent – Tinku

Montreal band Kon-Fusion remake Tinku with Mixe Represent, tying Quechua ritual and Bolivian tradition to Chilean resistance in a fast ska track for upcoming album Arriba de Su Muro

#KonFusion #Tinku #Canada
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January 17, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Daily Discovery: Yilian Cañizares – Nuevo Ciclo

Nuevo Ciclo brings together Yilian Cañizares on violin & voice with Childo Tomas, Inor Sotolongo, Bokani Dyer & Momi Maiga, built around a traditional Cuban prayer to Orunmila and pointing to her album Vitamina Y
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January 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Shabaka Hutchings - A Future Untold

A Future Untold opens Of The Earth on Shabaka Records, bringing flute, saxophone and portable electronics together on a solo track ahead of the 6 March album release

#ShabakaHutchings #AFutureUntold
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January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Daily Discovery: Iseo & Dodosound – Un Pañuelo

Second single from forthcoming 5th album Volando, "Un Pañuelo" ("A Handkerchief") was written on tour and recorded with a full band and The Mousehunters horn section for Twin Cats Records.

#Iseo #Dodosound #UnPañueloo
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January 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Mantric Mambo – Okê Arô

Okê Arô carries an Oxóssi chant from forest ceremonies in Chapada dos Veadeiros into Mantric Mambo’s sound, with call and response vocals, hand percussion, low electric bass and saxophone from Jeremy Marais.

#MantricMambo
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January 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Mélissa Laveaux – Yemaya

“Yemaya” takes a Bahia swim beside a red warning flag and an encounter with Iémanja. Out 9 January 2026, second single from at my softest, i am most dangerous.

#MélissaLaveauxx #Haiti #France #AfroHaitian #Iémanjaa
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January 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: NESTA - Worthwhile (Acoustic)

Jamaica, Queens-based NESTA strips "Worthwhile" back to voice and Hector Roots Lewis’ guitar, linking roots reggae phrasing, lovers rock writing and contemporary R&B touches in a focused acoustic version

#NESTA
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January 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Daily Discovery: Nubiyan Twist – Red Herring (feat. Bootie Brown)

Nubiyan Twist link with The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown on Red Herring, a hip hop and jazz edged single from their fifth album Chasing Shadows on Strut Records.

#NubiyanTwist #RedHerring #BootieBrown
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January 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Daily Discovery: Mafia Matou – Vida

French trio Mafia Matou teams with balafon player Jonas Chirouze on Vida, as Tatiana Valenzuela sings in Spanish over electro cumbia, reggae dub and tropical bass.

#MafiaMatou #Vida #France #Cumbia #Dub #Tropical
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January 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM