This week, in our adventure groovesquethere is: the latest delivery from an Anglo-Nigerian rapper of whom we are a fan, Little Simz (photo); one of the Indian heralds of current Punjabi Music, Karan Aujla; songs of prisoners from Malawi and Mississippi, captured by the traveling producer Ian Brennan and the album by the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny which, barely released, is already described as a “classic”!
With the complicity, from Boston, of the Franco-American singer and keyboardist Melissa Weikart who is preparing to deliver a 3rd intimate pop project, Easy.
1/ COTONETE feat Leron Thomas – “Day In Day Out”, from the album Victoire de la Musique (Heavenly Sweetness – 2024)
2 / LITTLE SIMZ – “Hello, hi” (2024)
3/ KARAN AUJLA – “Wavy” (2025)
4/ MELISSA WEIKART feat Carmen Quill – “One day”taken from Easy (Melissa Weikart – 2025)
5/ EXTRACT– “The Floods” – Zomba Prison Project (Six Degrees Records – 2015)
6/ EXTRACT– “Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord” – Parchman Prison Prayer – Some Mississipi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat – 2024)
7/ EXTRACT “MC Hammer” – Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat – 2025)
8/ PARCHMAN BAND x M. PALMER – “Jesus will never say no”, taken from Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat – 2025)
9/ ARATE KILO x MAMANI KEITA x MIKE LADD –“Nbendia”, taken from their 5th album, Danamawhich is scheduled for release on March 7, 2025 on the Accords Croisés label.
10 / AROOJ AFTAB – “Hey Nehin”, taken from Mohagany Sessions (Verve Label Group – 2024)
All tour dates here
11/ ORIENTAL BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL – “Me And You Are Brothers”taken from He who ate his fellow man (Palenque Records – 2024)
A title to be found this month in the official RFI playlist on Deezer, Youtube or Spotify.
Read to find out more about this Nigerian group, the Pan African Music article (2022)
13/ BAD BUNNY – NUEVAYoL, taken from I SHOULD TAKE MORE PHOTOS (Rimas Entertainment – 2025)
The short film that accompanies the album can be seen here
13/ EXTRACT – BLACK BERRY DISH – “Die in Paris” (2015)
14/ BLACK BERRIER – “Hello to you”,from the album Song of the Packs (Archives of the World Zone – 2005)
And what do you listen to?
As Nora from the RFI Club in Bukavu et Samuel du Club RFI Rubber who listen to us both in the DRC on 98 FM – a BIG thank you to them – tell us what you listen to on repeat at home or in the neighborhood: we want to know everything!
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Once a month, Happy Heartbeats of the World stops entirely with an artist, the time of an intimate encounter which mixes his life with his work, following him in a festival, in his neighborhood or on the familiar routes which are those of his inspiration.
It is BPM – The Meeting : an intimate conversation in 3D audio (or spatialized sound) at the heart of the music and its creators!
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