With over 20 million albums sold worldwide and a Grammy® win for Best World Music Album, Gipsy Kings bring their globally lauded legacy to Historia. Inspired by childhood memories of family gatherings and community celebrations, Historia captures the timeless spirit, energy and passion that has defined their sound for decades. Historia is a vibrant journey through the rich rhythms and soulful melodies of Gipsy culture. Blending flamenco guitars, joyful choruses, and lively dance rhythms, the album celebrates music, tradition, and togetherness.

Passion Congo is the latest project and album by the legendary Congolese musician Ray Lema, released in April 2026. The album launch coincided with celebrations for Lema's 80th birthday on April 3, 2026, which featured a special performance at the Studio de l'Ermitage in Paris. This work is a collaboration with the Ensemble Partage, blending Ray Lema's deep roots in Congolese Rumba with jazz and chamber music elements, including a string quartet. The project is described as a tribute to the "golden age" of Congolese music, revisiting classics from legendary figures like Franco Luambo and Tabu Ley while continuing Lema's lifelong mission of bridging Western and African musical traditions.

The evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s and 70s is generally classified into two major schools: African Jazz & OK Jazz. The main representatives of those schools are Joseph Kabasele alias Grand Kallé, founder of African Jazz, and Franco Luambo, co-founder of O.K. Jazz. Two temperaments and ambiances, one commonly referred to as ‘fiesta’, the other as ‘odemba’, both seeking their own sublimity or ideal. For the very first time, a compilation brings together explicitly the main protagonists of the two bands on the same album, with a collection of their songs recorded in the early sixties for the Surboum African Jazz label, in addition to three tracks made by Kallé’s bands in the late sixties.- The heirs of Joseph Kabasele and Franco Luambo kindly gave permission in Kinshasa to release this original selection on Planet Ilunga about these virtuosi of Congolese Rumba on Planet Ilunga.

Strut introduces a pioneering new compilation 'A Dancefloor In Ndola,' curated by revered East African DJ, Kampire. This release marks an evolution in Strut's approach to compilations, showcasing emerging DJ talent from across the world and embracing an innovative approach to musical discovery from the next wave of selectors.

Larry Harlow's third album was recorded in 1967 when Boogaloo was still in vogue as one of the most popular forms of Latin music. The vocalist Ismael Miranda makes his first performance with Orchestra Harlow and Larry had seem him sing with his brother Andy Harlow earlier in the year and being impressed had invited Ismael to sing for "El Exigente" his third album project with Johnny Pacheco one of the co-founders of the Fania Label contributing the musical direction. One thing though Larry still had that Cuban tradition behind him with two Guarachas and a Rumba in the mix between all this great Boogaloo and Shingaling.

This compilation collects a number of 7” singles produced by Audio Productions Ltd. in Kenya’s capital Nairobi in the first half of the 1980s and released on the Wendo, Lulus, Mlima and APL imprints.

Reaching back to the roots of the Jamaican sixties musical explosion, 'Jamaica Jazz From Federal Records' features some of the originators of the genre. This compilation from the golden era of reggae features Ernest Ranglin, Lennie Hibbert & Cecil Lloyd, and others playing in their element.

Antonio Salazar Barrull (born 1949 in A Coruña), known as Zíngaro, is a Spanish singer and composer of Gypsy origin, whose style corresponds to a merger between Flamenco, jazz and rock that began in the late 1970s…

Las Grecas was a Spanish musical duo of Flamenco - rock formed in 1973 by two romani sisters, Carmela Muñoz Barrull (Valladolid, July 19, 1954), and Edelina Muñoz Barrull (Madrid, February 17, 1957 - Aranjuez, January 30, 1995), better known as Tina. They had a huge initial success with the theme "Te estoy amando locamente" (I love you madly) which sold 500,000 copies…