The Pan-Africanism 12 inch record collection [Vinyl Bundle]

With the Pan-Africanism Collection, Tropical Diaspora® Records celebrates our deep-rooted relationships with artists who embody the resistance, memory, and musical power of the African Diaspora — including our long-standing partnership with the band Grupo Höröyá, as well as visionary projects like the Amandla Freedom Ensemble & Mandla Mlangeni. Our mission is to forge a powerful musical narrative around the lives of Africans and the African Diaspora in Brazil, South Africa, and beyond — a people who continue the legacy of resistance against enslavement and colonization, now more than ever.

Music has always been, and remains, a form of resistance. It is a political and social instrument capable of unifying and uplifting people of African ancestry across the world.

Through this collection, we tell the story of those who crossed the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. We honor their encounter with Indigenous peoples, and the cultural expressions born from that meeting — expressions that carry both the horror and the hope of that experience. From the Afro-Brazilian–West African fusion of Grupo Höröyá to the jazz and spoken word insurgency of South Africa's Amandla Freedom Ensemble, each release in this collection contributes a unique chapter to that ongoing story.

The following releases are part of the Pan-Africanism Collection:

TDR043 – Höröyá [red] by Höröyá

Debut album. A powerful mix of sabar, atabaque, djembe, cuica, dunduns, balafon, ngoni, guitars, bass, trumpet, and saxophones — connecting Brazilian and West African musicians in a permanent dialogue between traditions.
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TDR044 – Pan Bras’Afree’Ke Vol.1 [yellow] by Höröyá

Second album. Recorded between São Paulo, Bamako, and Bobo-Dioulasso, co-produced by Malian maestro Cheick Tidiane Seck. Unites Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Brazil under the Pan-African movement, blending Candomblé, griot melodies, funk, and jazz.
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TDR045 – Pan Bras’Afree’Ke Vol.2 [green] by Höröyá

Third album. Featuring Famoudou Konate, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Jaques Morelembaum, Gabi Guedes, and Davi Kopenawa Yanomami. Advances polyrhythms and composed measures, mixing Sabar, Mandeng music, Candomblé Ketu and Nagô with funk, jazz, and Afrobeat.
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TDR051 – Oratorio Of A Forgotten Youth by Amandla Freedom Ensemble & Mandla Mlangeni

A jazz & spoken word reckoning with South Africa's unhealed wounds. Featuring poet Lesego Rampolokeng. A musical insurgency that fuses jazz, Afro-jazz, classical, and indigenous traditions — an open rehearsal of revolution, echoing the struggles of South Africa's youth movements and the scars of racial capitalism.
→ tdrgo.co/tdr51

Our language is music. Our commitment is empowerment.

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