Favourite Albums of 2017 - Rhythm & Hues
2017 went by in a flash and flurry of new and exciting albums. Here’s what kept DJ Rhythm & Hues musically curious in 2017.
* as always indicates Cancon. BOLD albums are special faves.
Bantu - Agberos International Barrio Lindo - Albura La BOA (Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat) - Volumen *Boogat - San Cristóbal Baile Inn Clap! Clap! - DIG! DELVE! DAMN! (Dutch Archive Edition) Combo Chimbita - Abya Yala Coruja Bc1 - No Dia dos Nossos Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Sourdes Oreilles Curumin - Boca Daymé Arocena - Cubafonía Denis Mpunga & Paul K - Criola & Criola Remixed DJ Nirso - Nirsópolis EP Don Leisure - Shaboo Èkó Afrobeat - Èkó Afrobeat El Búho - Chinampa EP & Balance El Rass - Baadelhazimeh Equiknoxx - Colon Man Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan Ibaaku - Alien Cartoon (AKWAABA) Ibeyi - Ash ÌFÉ - IIII+IIII (2017) Ghetto Kumbé - Soy Selva (GALLETAS CALIENTES) Hagan - Roots EP Hamad Kalkaba - Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974-1975 Hard Proof - Stinger Orchestra Soledad - Vámonos; Let's Go (1970, Remastered 2017) Jacob Mafuleni & Gary Gritness - Batanidzo Joey Le Soldat - Barka KKing Kong - Da Linha La Misa Negra - La Misa Negra Lord Echo - Harmonies Mim Suleiman - Kawaida Mina - Sentah Mo Laudi - Afro Paris House Club Mula - Aguas Nídia - Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida Nuri - Drup (SHOUKA) Ondatrópica - Baile Bucanero Oumou_Sangare - Mogoya Ozferti - Southern Roads Quantic & Nidia Góngora - Curao Penya - Super Liminal Populous - Azulejos *Ramzi - Pèze-Piton Rimas e Melodias - Rimas & Melodias Rincon Sapiencia - Galanga Livre Saeid Shanbehzadeh - Pour-Afrigha Sampa the Great - Birds And The BEE9 Satti - Arees El-Shamal Somi - Petite Afrique TLC Fam - Isbethelo seGqom The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks Thornato – Bennu Thiago Elniño - A Rotina do Pombo Three Fall & Melane - Four Toto Bona Lokua - Bondeko
Favourite Compilations
VA - 2017 Mr. Bongo Record Club, Vol. 2 VA - Brazilian Disco Boogie Sounds Vol. 2 (1977-1984) VA - Electro Zajal (RBMA Presents) VA - Esoteric, Modal and Progressive Jazz inspired by Islam 1957-88 VA - Versus II (ON THE CORNER) VA - Ote Maloya; The Birth Of Electric Maloya In La Réunion 1975-1986 VA - ANDINA; The Sound of the Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 VA - Tokyo Nights- Female J-Pop Boogie Funk - 1981 to 1988 VA - Sweet As Broken Dates Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa VA - Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu VA - Gabriele Poso - The Language of Tambores
As always check out our previous favourite album posts here:
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012