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Featured ArtistsTropical Diaspora Records®2024-06-21T12:38:20+02:00
Zoli SwayTropical Diaspora Records®2025-07-24T00:43:24+02:00
Zoli Sway
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Zoli Sway

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Amandla Freedom Ensemble, Mandla MlangeniTropical Diaspora Records®2025-07-22T01:27:28+02:00
Amandla Freedom Ensemble, Mandla Mlangeni
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Amandla Freedom Ensemble, Mandla Mlangeni

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Samba Blues Trio, Izzy Gordon, Carlos Casemiro, Renato GamaTropical Diaspora Records®2025-06-29T05:07:04+02:00
Samba Blues Trio, Izzy Gordon, Carlos Casemiro, Renato Gama
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Samba Blues Trio, Izzy Gordon, Carlos Casemiro, Renato Gama

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Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo, Valerie & Benedict TurnerTropical Diaspora Records®2025-06-29T05:07:41+02:00
Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo, Valerie & Benedict Turner
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Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo, Valerie & Benedict Turner

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Grupo HöröyáTropical Diaspora Records®2025-06-28T06:29:33+02:00
Grupo Höröyá
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Grupo Höröyá

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RiosentíTropical Diaspora Records®2025-06-05T20:01:41+02:00
feat artist Riosenti 002
Riosentí
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Riosentí

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Orquestra BackstageTropical Diaspora Records®2025-05-29T16:42:22+02:00
Orquestra Backstage
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Orquestra Backstage

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Ska Maria PastoraTropical Diaspora Records®2024-10-23T23:40:43+02:00
feat artist SKAMARIAPASTORA 000
Ska Maria Pastora
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Ska Maria Pastora

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Dub ManualTropical Diaspora Records®2025-05-02T00:01:22+02:00
Dub Manual
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Dub Manual

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JOANAH FLORTropical Diaspora Records®2024-11-12T16:06:26+01:00
JOANAH FLOR
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JOANAH FLOR

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Pax Nicholas Addo-NetteyTropical Diaspora Records®2024-07-02T23:40:24+02:00
feat artist PAXNICHOLAS 002
Pax Nicholas Addo-Nettey
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Pax Nicholas Addo-Nettey

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Fred Jorge E Os MaioraisAdministrator2023-09-28T12:32:22+02:00
Fred Jorge E Os Maiorais
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Fred Jorge E Os Maiorais

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MARIANA PERTropical Diaspora Records®2024-07-12T11:51:26+02:00
MARIANA PER
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MARIANA PER

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Izzy GordonAdministrator2023-03-27T13:54:07+02:00
Izzy Gordon
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Izzy Gordon

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Banda JardesAdministrator2022-12-15T17:28:52+01:00
Banda Jardes
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Banda Jardes

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GEKAHTropical Diaspora Records®2024-07-12T11:51:27+02:00
Alberto Gekah showing his fists in defiance.
GEKAH
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GEKAH

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Renato GamaAdministrator2022-05-05T18:49:45+02:00
feat artist RENATOGAMA 000
Renato Gama
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Renato Gama

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Los Made In BarcelonaAdministrator2021-01-31T23:51:14+01:00
feat artist LOSMADEINBCN 000
Los Made In Barcelona
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Los Made In Barcelona

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Forró de CabeçaAdministrator2024-07-03T15:29:01+02:00
feat artist FORRODECABECA 006
Forró de Cabeça
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Forró de Cabeça

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BandoAdministrator2020-05-28T18:29:35+02:00
feat artist BANDO 002
Bando
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Bando

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LA FANFARRIA DEL CAPITÁNAdministrator2019-08-13T00:45:55+02:00
videos LaFanfarriadelCapitan 001
LA FANFARRIA DEL CAPITÁN
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LA FANFARRIA DEL CAPITÁN

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La RuedaAdministrator2021-09-22T23:53:30+02:00
feat artist LARUEDADEMADRID 000
La Rueda
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La Rueda

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El Santo GolpeAdministrator2020-05-24T03:31:28+02:00
feat artist ELSANTOGOLPE 002
El Santo Golpe
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El Santo Golpe

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AbeokutaAdministrator2020-05-24T03:26:38+02:00
feat artist ABEOKUTA 000
Abeokuta
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Abeokuta

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SUPER SPANISH COMBOAdministrator2019-01-26T16:13:20+01:00
feat artist SSC 002
SUPER SPANISH COMBO
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SUPER SPANISH COMBO

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Nhocuné SoulAdministrator2018-06-06T01:14:58+02:00
feat artist NHOCUNESOUL 001
Nhocuné Soul
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Nhocuné Soul

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Doctor NativoAdministrator2017-11-14T06:51:35+01:00
feat artist DOUTORNATIVO 000
Doctor Nativo
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Doctor Nativo

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EL V And THE GARDENHOUSEAdministrator2017-11-14T06:51:36+01:00
feat artist ELVandTHEGARDENHOUSE 004
EL V And THE GARDENHOUSE
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EL V And THE GARDENHOUSE

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RAPadura Xique ChicoTropical Diaspora Records®2024-11-12T16:06:55+01:00
feat artist RAPadura XiqueChico 001
RAPadura Xique Chico
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RAPadura Xique Chico

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La Dame BlancheTropical Diaspora Records®2024-07-12T11:51:27+02:00
feat artist LaDameBlanche 002
La Dame Blanche
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La Dame Blanche

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Dj GArRinchAAdministrator2025-02-24T20:37:11+01:00
feat artist DjGarrincha 001
Dj GArRinchA
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Dj GArRinchA

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Dj Dr.SócratesAdministrator2020-10-21T23:08:43+02:00
feat artist DjDrSocrates 001
Dj Dr.Sócrates
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Dj Dr.Sócrates

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OGHENE KOLOGBOAdministrator2025-05-29T13:21:24+02:00
feat artist Kologbo 001
OGHENE KOLOGBO
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OGHENE KOLOGBO

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NYABINGHIAAdministrator2025-05-29T13:19:16+02:00
feat artist NYABINGHIA 001
NYABINGHIA
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NYABINGHIA

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Pedrosa DjAdministrator2025-06-28T06:02:29+02:00
Pedrosa Dj
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Pedrosa Dj

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Our Mission!

We emphasize cross-cultural experiences...

Tropical Diaspora Records® is committed to create and relect a musical narrativ originated by forced African migration, its collective memory and their powerful musical herstories. We are popular based, politically conscious and anti-colonial. As we carry out our musical research, we come face to face with the question of how to address the cultural life of communities that have been dispossessed and opressed for many centuries. Ways of looking and narratives need to be handed back, as we observe with sadness how mainstream recording companies are still in the business of taking advantage of, expropriating the cultural heritage of African and originary people world wide.

Frantz Fanon

We would like to thank Frantz Fanon, always a source of inspiration.

from Toward the African Revolution “…Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting, of laughing, of enjoying himself, the oppressed flings himself upon the imposed culture with the desperation of a drowning man. … At the United Nations there is a commission to fight race prejudice. Films on race prejudice, poems on race prejudice, messages on race prejudice. Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country. If in England, in Belgium, or in France, despite the democratic principles affirmed by these respective nations, there are still racists, it is these racists who, in their opposition to the country as a whole, are logically consistent. It is not possible to enslave men without logically making them inferior through and through. And racism is only the emotional, affective, sometimes intellectual explanation of this inferiorization.…”

Our Partners

Like so many other things in the small universe of Tropical Diaspora® Records our partnerships are the result of travels and personal connections. In fact, its meaning conveys just that: the creation of human relations based on love and care, understanding, respect and passionate discussions around the topics that move us. Djs Garrincha and Dr. Sócrates do exactly this with a case full of records traveling across the borders of the World. Dj Garrincha’s trips have taken him to meet artists and ignite relations that are meant to last. It can be Johannesburg, Chicago, São Paulo, Medellin, Berlin, Barcelona, Olinda or San Juan. So here few of our Partners World Wide

 

A Sanctuary for Music Lovers

Since its inception in 2019, Bantu Records has become a sanctuary for discerning listeners. Inspired by the legendary Hugh Masekela and the infectious energy of township jazz, the store offers a platform for discovery and exploration. It's a space where the past, present, and future of music converge, creating a vibrant and immersive experience.

 

 

Cultural Production beyond and above

...Com sabença profunda irei cantando Altos feitos da gente luminosa... We believe that we can turn our ideas into reality through our innovative ways of storytelling. Our well equipped, insanely enthusiastic team helps us to realize any kind of artistic production.

 

 

Noise Studio

Music Production & Creation

Noise Studio our Partner for Creation and production of soundtracks for cinema, internet, radio and television. Post production and audio finishing. Sound Design, sound effects and foley. Voice-over, recording and music production. Script Production and Audio Description Recording

 

 

Chanel Bob Fernandes

Independent Journalistic Narrative

Channel of the Journalist Bob Fernandes. Our Partner for news and information with a Journalistic Narrative thar represents us as independent recording company and as political conscious people.

 

Cinema Partners and Sponsors

Writing & Direction

Exploring Realities. Thinking in pictures. Forging unique characters.

 

AfroCannes

AfroCannes is a two-day event featuring panel discussions, country highlights, presentations, screenings, cocktails and tributes. AfroCannes aims at promoting diversity, inclusion in film across the industry. AfroCannes connects creatives, businesses and stakeholders from the entire film ecosystem at the world premiere film gathering; The Cannes Film Festival.

 

 

Noise Studio

Yanibes Consulting is communications and business consulting company.

 

OUR POSITIONS

Gaza Emergency Appeal

End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism.

Stop Genocide, Apartheid and Settler Colonialism Tropical Diaspora Records® position facing apartheid and settler-colonialism. Oppression forces in the region are occupying, stealing and colonizing Palestinian land, an apartheid system is discriminating against Palestinian citizens in the region denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, Tropical Diaspora Records® call urges action to pressure oppression forces to comply with international law.
Our support work stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination under international law (UN Resolution 3236). It explicitly condemns all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

Free Palestine! End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism. 🍉#FP🍉

Read our Manifesto: our position facing cultural appropriation.

... Look at a compilation of so-called World Music, as it is typically done in the US or Europe...The powerful cultural institutions of the European national states are happy to back this colonialist penetration in the name of the Other, because they know better. So we end cheering up Humboldt’s achievements as if they were our own... Colonialists have always granted themselves the right to represent Others, to measure them against their own scientific and artistic achievements. Record labels perpetuate this ideology when they create through recordings the plane where those featured are kept alive as Others, the strange subject of the colonialist curiosity and inquiry. By claiming the words World, Ethno, Afro or Latin the colonialist gives the impression of universality. But this is a misrepresentation. Through these recordings the colonized learns to act as African, as Latin, as Native in the eyes of the white supremacist. It means, the colonized has been stripped of her own humanity and universalism in order to become a puppet...

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