{"title":"Funkiwala","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bangla-rasta","title":"Bangla Rasta","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst in a series of collaboration albums between Lokkhi Terra (described by songlines as the \"probably the world's greatest Afrobeat-Cuban-Bangladeshi band\") and Bangladeshi folk legends the Shikor Bangladeshi All Stars. This first outing is a Roots meets Roots affair. \"The international power of Reggae\" David Rodigan Radio1xtra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten whilst Lokkhi Terra were on tour in Bangladesh, and recorded between Dhaka and London, the two tracks and corresponding dub mixes on side B reflect the bands long love affair with Roots Reggae. They were first perfromed on Bangladehi TV for a show called \u003ci\u003eThe Bengal Tiger's Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, and then showcased at UK\"s Womad Festival in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP.","offer_id":50404907549003,"sku":"1112024","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7307bff4-f99d-4465-b512-8d7cf03a94a0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726572144"},{"product_id":"cubafrobeat","title":"Cubafrobeat","description":"\u003cp\u003eFunkiwala Records presents the third in the series of \"Lokkhi Terra meets\"albums, with the London fusionistas creating another unique sound-clash, this time with ex-Fela Kuti keyboardist and legendary UK Afro-beat ambassador Dele Sosimi, and members of his critically acclaimed Afro-beat Orchestra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis particular collaboration has been bubbling away for a few years now, teasing audience expectations with a handful of sold out shows each year in between both bands busy schedules. Featuring the two pianos of Kishon Khan and Dele Sosimi – Cuban percussionists\/vocalists Geraldo De Armas (Yoruba Andabo), Oreste Noda (Ariwo), Javier Camilo (Ibrahim Ferrer) - a horn section led by Justin Thurgur (Bellowhead) featuring Yelfris Valdes (Sierra Maestra) and Graeme Flowers (Kyle Eastwood) to name a few – this is an All-star cast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKishon Khan's Lokkhi Terra have over a number of years now been quietly establishing themselves as one of London's more unusual heavyweight outfits, described as \"Stunning Headliners… A majestic multi-cultural blend of sounds… effortlessly builds bridges between rolling Indian raga rhythms, Afro-Cuban grooves, Acid Jazz\/funk and free flowing improvisation\" (Timeout London). Included amongst the band members are London's top Cuban musicians, adding their infectious rich musical history to the city's melting pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the band wanted to explore Cuban links with another of their favourite traditions, Afrobeat, who better to bring in then one of the Afrobeat originators – maestro Dele Sosimi – \"Sosimi creates some of the most bewitching grooves in modern African music\" E Jazz News.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together two Yoruba speaking musics - with different accents, from different sides of the Atlantic - Havana meets Lagos in London – A Cuban-Afrobeat-Experience. CUBAFROBEAT.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50417037181259,"sku":"1113195","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50417036853579,"sku":"1113197","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417036984651,"sku":"1113196","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f30b15c2-45f4-465f-8b6c-52f8844a12d8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726714589"},{"product_id":"this-is-funkiwala","title":"This is Funkiwala","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresenting a brand new vinyl compilation featuring artists from the electic Funkiwala label – from Brasillian Afrobeat to Bengali funk to Indo-Cuban-Nigerian jazz to European jazz soul to traditional Baul myticism - 3 newly released tracks by Phil Dawson, Cubafrobeat and Lokkhi Terra, with other tracks previously released digitally or on CD only - \"if further proof were needed that London is a hotbed of cross-culturally inspired expression, it's new record label Funkiwala\" Evening Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50463878349131,"sku":"1161652","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b53da0e0-d1e1-47c0-9046-a21bfab5365a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727267833"},{"product_id":"a-momentary-convergence-of-differently-paced-trajectories","title":"A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 12\" EP A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories is a heterogenous dj-oriented release, prelude and companion of Maurizio Ravalico's first solo percussion album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad, released in November 2018 with the Funkiwala label. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide A opens with a full-size batucada version of Fear of Mapping, one of the tracks from No Fiction Now!, the 2013 debut album of Maurizio's trio Fiium Shaarrk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is followed by a personal take on one of Collocutor's second album tracks, Here to There to Everywhere, arranged here as a spacey 5\/4 drum'n'bass epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide B contains an old-school jungle remix of Just Bring Your Toys, one of the tracks from Maurizio's forthcoming album, by the Italian d'n'b veteran Enjoy (Omni Music, Bustle Beats). The EP closes with an edited version of the same track: a taste of the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite being both loosely presented as remixes, neither of the two arrangements on side A makes use of samples from the respective releases, and any material not progammed or played anew by Maurizio comes from either unreleased off-cuts or preliminary demos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | 12\"","offer_id":50465168228683,"sku":"1112700","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6583e891-8131-4ef2-9d15-5d3214c0d731_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727282298"},{"product_id":"it-s-time","title":"It's Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new 6-track mini album from a musician with a long list of credits including South African trumpet legend Hugh Masekela, afrobeat co-creator Tony Allen and Ethiopian jazz originator Mulatu Astatke as well as many Brit-jazz and international roots artists. \u003ci\u003eIt's Time\u003c\/i\u003e blends spiritual Afro-jazz groove with free improv, spoken poetry and other-worldly atmosphere, with lyrics and titles hinting at unorthodox takes on reality and the times we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhil Dawson is a top London guitarist who has worked and schooled himself extensively in many different African, Latin and Brazilian music traditions together with styles that more typically cross the radar of someone with a similar British background: roots reggae, punk rock, blues, soul, R'n'B, jazz and funk. As a sideman, he's played with a host of living legends of Afro-fusion music including South African jazz trumpet giant Hugh Masekela, Nigerian afrobeat co-creator Tony Allen, Ethiojazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, the Algerian \"king of rai\" Khaled, and London based Ghanaian afro-rock dons Osibisa. Heavy company for sure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow he's releasing a new mini 6 track album of original compositions under his own name and band - Phil Dawson ٤-tet - and he's joined by a stellar cast of London's finest players who include Rowland Sutherland (flutes - Airto Moreira, David Murray, Carla Bley), Khadijatou Doyneh (spoken word - The Heliocentrics, Danny Keane), Gaspar Sena (drums - Alfa Mist, Maria Chiara Argiro), Marius Rodrigues (drums - Oriole, Hermeto Hermeto Hermeto), Lekan Babalola (percussion - Cassandra Wilson, Ali Farka Toure) and Matheus Nova (bass - Antonio Forcione, Ed Motta, Jazzinho). Phil himself features on guitars, Fender Rhodes and piano.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50479784689995,"sku":"1114701","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/53327386-c883-4413-ba6e-5877e9203b83_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727511843"},{"product_id":"che-guava-s-rickshaw-diaries","title":"Che Guava's Rickshaw Diaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eLokki Terra have gone from strength to strength since their first gig in 2006 at a concert titled From Bangla-beat to Afro¬beat at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Co-founded by the classically trained, jazz-minded British Asian pianist Kishon Khan – who has played with everyone from Havana Cultura to Hugh Masekela – this good-natured London-based collective are now widely acknowledged as an international force to be reckoned with. This wittily titled second album fulfils the promise Lokki Terra showed on their well-received debut No Visa Required. Using the diverse Bangladeshi folk song repertoire as a base, they embrace a host of global influences. Afro-beat and Cuban rumba, jazz, funk and ska – Khan and a line-up that includes Cuban percussion maestro Oreste Noda, trombonist Justin Thurgur (of Bellowhead) and Bengali singers Sohini Alam, Aanon Siddiqua and Aneire Khan (along with the Cuban vocalist Javier Camilo) launch themselves on a musical journey. Khan has spent time in Cuba, and it shows: the clave's accent is prevalent, and often picked out by European instruments. Grooves that might be Latin turn out to be Bangladeshi rhythms played on tabla and dhol by British Asian percussionist Pandit Dinesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusical traditions feed and guide each other: the stunning 'Shokhi Kunjo Shajao' begins with Indian flute unfurling wraith¬like over Cuban Santéria-style chants, steady percussion and keyboard flourishes, before horns take it higher and sweet Bengali vocals take it higher still. This is beautiful, powerful, spectacular stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50479788851531,"sku":"1111231","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8aa46ba3-6985-4717-b14c-89998884061a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727511865"},{"product_id":"nobody-s-husband-nobody-s-dad","title":"Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad is the first entirely solo work of UK-based percussionist Maurizio Ravalico, and it represents a nodal episode in his artistic development. The music on the album is entirely acoustic and live played, with no overdubs added to the initial takes. These have all been slightly edited to different degrees, mainly to fit them into the time limitations of vinyl; but other than that all tracks are faithful reproductions of single, acoustic, uninterrupted one-man performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother distinctive musical trait of the album is a presistent denial of metric recurrence. Maurizio's solo music is focusing on sounds, often generated by unexpected combinations of conventional instruments and found objects, both played using a mix of orthodox and extended techniques, and often on top of a big drum, which augments dramatically their timbrical and tonal range. The finished pieces recall thus the aesthetics of both contemporary and improvised music, despite them being neither strictly composed nor at all improvised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompanion to the album is A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories, a 12\" EP containing remixes of one of Maurizio's album tracks, Fiium Shaarrk and Collocutor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50483569721675,"sku":"1113203","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3ae00796-fd81-440e-ab34-0c18eda55780_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727569502"},{"product_id":"cubangla","title":"Cubangla","description":"\u003cp\u003eFunkiwala Records presents CUBANGLA - the sixth album by London fusionistas LoKkhi TeRra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from their hugely successful collaboration with UK afro-beat ambassador Dele Sosimi's \u003ci\u003eCubafrobeat \u003c\/i\u003e(mixing afrobeat and Cuban Rumba\/Timba), this album sees them return to their Bangla-Afro- Latin-Jazz-Roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 tracks of 21st century London groove – from Sufi Samba to Baul Blues to Bengali folk-Son to Bangla Roots Reggae to London Descargas - recorded in between tours, sessions and collaborations – a true celebration of traditions taking on new forms as they travel and co-exist. In these divided times, their collective musical journey has never been so relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50544613818699,"sku":"1113901","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b2ef027b-bd7b-4e37-bd0b-a966b304383e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728331351"},{"product_id":"dont-waste-your-ancestors-time","title":"Don't Waste Your Ancestors' Time","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhil Dawson,UK guitarist and producer, learned his trade with legends like South African jazz trumpet giant Hugh Masekela, Nigerian Afrobeat co-creator Tony Allen, Ethio- jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, and Ghanaian afro-rock dons Osibisa as well as a large handful of Brit Jazz and cultural fusion projects.\n'Don't Waste Your Ancestors' Time'creates a new blend of Afro- and Afro-Brazilian grooves, high-level improv and dub, and boasts an array of collaborators that push the music in new directions - spoken word artistKhadijatou Doyneh(Heliocentrics); saxophonistTony Kofi(Abdullah Ibrahim, Jazz Jamaica, Cymande etc), top pianistSam Leak(Aquarium),Afrobeat maestroDele Sosimi,who vocalises in contexts he's not been heard in before; progressive UK tenor playerJohn Martin; Ruby Rushton'sNick Walterson trumpet; Nigerian singerBiola Dosunmu(Estuary 17); Bellowhead and Dele's horn arranger, trombonistJustin Thurgur,as well as a cameo fromTamar Collocutor.The album's title paraphrases novelistWole Soyinkain a plea to all not to throw away what their ancestors fought for - whether that's through ignoring spiritual heritages, allowing ourselves to be divided and conquered, or turning a blind eye to contemporary injustices....\nTrack listing and info\nGhanaba\nA tribute to master drummer and cultural fusion pioneer Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren) that spans Ghana highlife, hints of William Onyeabor, Joao Donato-style keys, and sections of both Elvinesque polyrhythm and baiao... featuring Tony Kofi on tenor sax doing his Pharaoh thing, and Rowland Sutherland with a dazzling flute solo.\nTony Kofi - tenor sax; Rowland Sutherland - flutes; Maurizio Ravalico - percussion; Matheus Nova - bass; Marius Rodrigues - drums; Phil Dawson - guitar, synth, Hohner clavinet\n\n\nIle (part 1)\nYoruba multi-vocals from Dele Sosimi and Biola Dosunmu, together with mind-bending solos from Sam Leak (piano), John Martin (tenor sax) and Rowland Sutherland (flute) in a Kamasi-meets-late Coltrane mode, morphing into a vintage bossa stew and dedicated to the gods of abundance.\nDele Sosimi and Biola Dosunmu - vocals; Rowland Sutherland - flute; John Martin - tenor sax; Justin Thurgur - trombone; Tom Allan - trumpet; Sam Leak - piano; Phil Dawson: guitars, electric piano, fx; Maurizio Ravalico - percussion; Basile Petit - double bass; Marius Rodrigues - drums\n\nPralaya\nCosmic interlude with a hint of 'He loved him Madly' that tectonically moves into electro- samba vibes.\nPhil Dawson: guitars, electric piano, fx; Basile Petit: double bass; Maurizio Ravalico: percusssion; Marius Rodrigues: drums\n\n\nShifting Sands (Mainline)\nA poem by Khadijatou, philosophising from her immediate surroundings in a backdrop of warped highlife guitar and 'Filles de Kilimanjaro'-inspired Fender Rhodes with flute commentary from Rowland.\nKhadijatou Doyneh - vocals; Rowland Sutherland - flute; Basile Petit - double bass; Phil Dawson: guitar, Rhodes; Maurizio Ravalico - percussion; Marius Rodrigues - drums \nNow Rise Up\nBikutsi meets dub, building to a joyous cacophony of flute and percussion.\nNick Walters - trumpet; Rowland Sutherland: flute; Maurizio Ravalico - percussion; Phil Dawson - guitar, fx, electric piano; Matheus Nova - bass; Marius Rodrigues - drums \nIle (part 2) a.k.a Ile (Iyesa)\nA unique blend of Afro-brazilian ijexa (iyesa) groove and Yoruba vocal from Dele and Biola, with a lyric on the spiritual side of hard work...\nDele Sosimi, Biola Dosunmu - vocals; Phil Dawson - electric piano, guitar, fx; Rowland Sutherland - flute; Maurizio Ravalico - percussion; Matheus Nova - bass; Marius Rodrigues - drums\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funkiwala","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51003199258955,"sku":"2237067","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_89b3cca6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734952886"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/funkiwala-1.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}