Various - Beating Heart: Malawi Originals Recorded By Hugh TraceyWhen Hugh Tracey (1903 1977) made 35,000 field recordings across Sub Saharan Africa between the 1920s & 1970s, his intention was to reveal the beauty and complexity of the music to a world that saw little value in it. Today, almost 90 years later, Tracey's bid to preserve the music of Africa for future generations' lives on. ''Beating Heart Malawi'' has connected the archive at the International Library of African Music (ILAM) with contemporary

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At first sight an unlikely band

Clancy Eccles

moulding the rhythmic left turns of 2010 debut 'Man Alive' and panoramic soundscapes of its follow-up 'Arc' into a record full of captivating hooks and shimmying loose grooves

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Adam Cohen

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