Tropical Diaspora® Records

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We feel obliged to empower the people we work with by means of giving them the chance to control their own narrative.

GRI GRI BA by HÖRÖYÁ

New 12” LP + Poster

means in Malinke the great spell, the great sorcerer… and so it works the music that conspires to bring back to Brazil its own heritage and revive its own past, the very foundations of its culture. This is a dialectical trick. Because, the very strangeness of the music in today’s Brazilian cultural hype makes plain the cultural alienation of Brazilian society. Being African in today’s Brazil still means resistance and resilience, and Höröya has been able to create the soundtrack of this reality.

CITIES OF DIASPORA

New 7” + Double Cover

First release in the Cities of the Diaspora 7 inch series. São Paulo is in the spotlight with a single featuring two great bands. On side A, the Afro-Brazilian group Höröyá with “Todo Lugar é Sertão” with Chico César and the group Clarianas. On the B-side, with Banda Jardes that pays tribute to the musical career of Reginaldo Laurindo Da Silva, composer and performer of one of Brazil’s most iconic samba rock songs, “Grilos Da Vida (Nego Vem Sambá).

Our Catalog on Vinyl and Cassette

We are committed to create a musical narrative…

The Manifesto

All that we are not and will never become
– Tropical Diaspora® Records’ position facing cultural appropriation

Learning to Listen

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them.The