le soleil est rare

The dude akabrownssugar crafted a tribute to this very blog, although it's been pretty silent for a while...  A 9-track beattape with a ...

He's the man who made it possible in Ethiopia. Without Amha Eshèté, there wouldn't have been a private company pressing vinyl record...

Once again, I have to talk about Capitaine Hadôken, aka Koffi Gnato, aka many other monikers and characters... Usually, he builds beats arou...

The man officially known as Emile Sornin his better known as Forever Pavot , one of the most interesting authors of the current psychedelic ...

Sven Wunder is a a bit of a mystery. A multi-instrumentalist, apparently capable of embracing the subtleness of exotic instruments, with a p...

This is lockdown #2. Although it doesn't feel the same as the volume 1. But still, it contributes to the shitty year that is 2020.  Unde...

Is "Whats's Going On" by Marvin Gaye the best album of all time ? That's what Rolling Stone thinks, writes and publishes. ...

2020 has been a shitty year, that's for sure. But it made Shitao very productive. After " The day she arrives ", released in J...

In these strange times we're experiencing, live shows are a rarity. Well, there are some, but without any audience. That's exactly w...

  For those who don't mind downloading 17 hourw worth of music from Radiohead, the aforementioned Funk It ( Facebook post ) has assemble...

  The excellent Funk It published a rare audio recording of a concert Miles Davis gave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1974.  40mn of jazz fo...

I found in an old hard-drive the 28 episodes of the "le soleil est rare" compilations that I used to assemble back in the days on ...

Hate it or love it, the Prince Estate have opened the gates to the deepest secrets of the vaults of Paisley Park, and only God knows where i...

Call it data screening, Big Brother's effect, coincidence or whatever... As I was looking into Madlib's catalog and more particularl...

ASP is a collective of beatmakers, consisting of akabrownsugar, Shitao and Pi-Pol, since 2006. They have been reviving the old flame latel...

Back when cassette tapes where ruling thanks to the possibility they offered to record almost anything (live sounds, radio, vinyl, CD, t...

In the world of beatmakers, among the heavyweights, Madlib is prolific, Knxwledge is prolific, Alchemist is prolific, and many underdogs...

When Ostinato Records announced the release of an album by a band from Djibouti, I felt interested, curious. Somalian music had crossed bo...

This may be the last post of the "lockdown : vinyl find" series, as the lockdown will officially end tomorrow. But I might go on...

My first encounter with Donny Hathaway dates back from my student years. I was uploading mixtapes online, and Donny featured in one of the...

Lots of memories with this one.  Back in the late 1990's, Bob Sinclar made a (new) name for himself with his hit-full album "...

New band alert and it's jazz fire. Like they say, Jean-Paul Groove, it's first and foremost two slaps in your face. The goo...

The story started with the label Lion Productions releasing Kim Jung Mi's album "Now" as the first installment of their seri...

It is fair to say Kankick prefers keeping it local. Having used his first drumpads alongside Madlib and the Lootpack crew, he then expande...

Attention : masterpiece.  Picture yourself in the "1001 Nights". But then it becomes weird...  While in Izmir, I found thi...

Ethiopian music was among the first genres that I dived into when I started digging into those "global grooves". I associated ...

I should have written about a 45rpm. I know... but our habits and logic are upside down, so the post is about a LP.  African music is so...

There's no clear mark in my memory of my first encounter with François de Roubaix's work. I may have subconsciouly grown up with h...

I haven't linked my posts to the losses of music giants that happened during the current crisis, such as Manu Dibango, Christophe... I...

I've just listened to the album Procol Harum recorded with the Edmonton Symphonic Orchestra. And I followed with a real Finnish sweet....