Glitterbeat Records
Glitterbeat is a label which collects vibrant new sounds from around the world from artists who are both culturally engaged and decidedly contemporary. On the label’s roster are rockers Touaregs Tamikrest (Mali, Algeria), Sahrawi singer Aziza Brahim, Noura Mint Seymal (Mauritania), new-cumbia pioneer Sonido Gallo Negro (Mexico), afro-future artists Fofoulah (UK, Gambia, Senegal), Samba Touré (Mali) singing the blues from the river Niger, and dub-folk fusion band Dirtmusic (Australia, Mali, US). Glitterbeat is built up around artists who transcend genre and culture boundaries, founded to promote releases which embrace music beyond borders whilst maintaining respect for local traditions. Glitterbeat was founded in 2012 by Chris Eckman and Peter Weber. Read moreGlitterbeat is a label which collects vibrant new sounds from around the world from artists who are both culturally engaged and decidedly contemporary. On the label’s roster are rockers Touaregs Tamikrest (Mali, Algeria), Sahrawi singer Aziza Brahim, Noura Mint Seymal (Mauritania), new-cumbia pioneer Sonido Gallo Negro (Mexico), afro-future artists Fofoulah (UK, Gambia, Senegal), Samba Touré (Mali) singing the blues from the river Niger, and dub-folk fusion band Dirtmusic (Australia, Mali, US). Glitterbeat is built up around artists who transcend genre and culture boundaries, founded to promote releases which embrace music beyond borders whilst maintaining respect for local traditions. Glitterbeat was founded in 2012 by Chris Eckman and Peter Weber.
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Who Are We?
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 16 Sep 2022
QobuzissimeIn a previous life, French musician and producer Thomas Attar Bellier lived in Los Angeles and played in a rock band called Blaak Heat. It was a stone ...
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Roya
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 7 Oct 2022
In Istanbul, a group of six Israelis and five Iranians (including several women) assembled in secrecy… One could be forgiven for mistaking this as the ...
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Anadolu Ejderi
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 25 Nov 2022
In Turkish, the title of Gaye Su Akyol’s fourth album means ‘Anatolian dragon’. The tribal-psychedelic album cover confirms it: this dragon from the s ...
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The Age of Aquarius
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 4 Mar 2022
A small town in the Netherlands doesn't seem like the most conducive place to foster a lively underground music scene, yet here we are with YĪN YĪN an ...
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Chatma
Africa - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 13 Sep 2013
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is the desert-blues album for fans of Can and Pink Floyd to sink their teeth into." © TiVo ...
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Gece
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 26 Apr 2019
Altin Gün were formed by former members of Jacco Gardner's band to pay tribute to the Turkish psychedelia of the early '70s that they discovered and f ...
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Yol
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 26 Feb 2021
Nostalgia for the times when we danced: who has never let their arms wave in the air like charmed snakes, listening to Altin Gün's Goca Dünya? With th ...
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Global Control / Invisible Invasion
Indian Music - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 18 Sep 2020
4F de TéléramaAfter a first album which turned the heads of all fans of the world's electronic music scene, Maghreb United, the multifaceted Tunisian Sofyann Ben Yo ...
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Badi Sabah Olmadan
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 9 Mar 2022
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İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 26 Oct 2018
Songlines Five-star review"On an album whose title translates as 'Consistent Fantasy Is Reality,' the Turkish singer pursues distant dreams of freedom in a fusion of contempora ...
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Quebra Cabeça
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 20 Jul 2018
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Soutak
Africa - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 7 Feb 2014
Soutak is the second solo album of the exiled Sahrawi singer and songwriter Aziza Brahim. Though she now lives in Barcelona (after spending most of he ...
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Ba Power
Africa - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 24 Apr 2015
4F de TéléramaSélection JAZZ NEWS"No matter how intricate his finger-work or deep his Griot knowledge, plugged-in Kouyaté retains an admirably grimy tone, meaning lute-player or no, h ...
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Kidal
Africa - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 17 Mar 2017
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Zan
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 13 Nov 2020
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Maghreb United
Maghreb - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 15 Jun 2018
Qobuzissime4F de TéléramaAn escapee from the collective Bargou 08, Tunisian electro musician Sofyannn Ben Youssef took on the pseudonym Ammar 808 to release his hair-raising f ...
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The Dictator
Catherine Graindorge, Iggy Pop
Alternative & Indie - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 9 Sep 2022
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Sahari
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 15 Nov 2019
Aziza Brahim is an iconic voice for the Sahrawi people. Since the departure of Spanish colonists in 1975, this community from the Western Sahara has c ...
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Derin Derin
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 27 Sep 2019
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III
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 11 Sep 2015
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Hologram İmparatorluğu
World - Released by Glitterbeat Records on 11 Nov 2016
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