Miss D - MovingFormat : 7" Label : Edition Hawara Catalog # : EHAW008 Genre : Disco Miss D. used to work as a model in New York. That she ended up in Vienna was sheer coincidence. That she became a recording artist was never planned, either. She moved to the Austrian capital with a well known commercial producer in the mid 1980s, and soon she found herself recording TV ads for ice cream manufacturers. One day in the recording studio, someone had the brilliant idea

metronomic drumming and 80s synth sweeps eventually drops into a more recognisable Guinean vocal outing

and a deeply held love of storytelling through sound

the interesting parts had been recorded multiple times then cut

Palms by Robohands

We Release Jazz (WRWTFWW Records’ new sister-label) is proud to present its first release

His deeply funky and bubbly bass driven song “Obra Twa Owuo” is about life and death

means celebration in Yoruba and features gorgeous

in The early 1960s) Fela

Tu Kine Balka

” “Pon Pón” holds the band’s table at the West African discotheque

A firm favourite amongst the likes of Madlib

military dictatorships and long periods of enforced curfews (amongst other factors) making it impossible for artists to survive