Our mission at Cantos is to release every year a few selected artist albums, either new or unreleased, and compilations of single or multi artists, with an absolute commitment to very high quality, original and specific offering.
2005-2006 releases include Thione Seck 'Orientissime', Salif Keita & Kante Manfila 'The Lost Album', Kekele 'Kinavana', 3 compilations 'Africa Mother of The Blues', 'From Dakar To Cuba- Swinging To The Rumba' and 'Once upon a Time Bollywood'. We also recently released Leeroy's (from Saïan Supa Crew) 'Bollywod Trip' where he revisits some classics from Bollywood and we started a series of compilations entitled 'Classic Titles' featuring rare or unreleased material from Tabu Ley Rochereau, Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomide, Bembeya Jazz, Boubacar Traore, Ismael Lô, Les Ambassadeurs feat. Salif Keïta...
The album 'Orientissime' from Thione seck, released in June 2005, has been for six consecutive weeks ranked number 2 in the 'World Music Album Chart' managed by fifteen European radios including the BBC. The first Cantos'compilation, 'From Dakar to Cuba', received a prize from French leading cultural magazine Telerama.
After only one year of existence, Cantos has been ranked 15th World Music label in a worldwide ranking of 350 labels, ahead of mong established World Music labels.
Cantos initially focused on African Music, notably thanks to its partnership with Ibrahima Sylla from Syllart Productions, the leading African producer (Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Ismaël Lô, etc), and is currently broadening its catalogue to Asia (India), North Africa, West Indies and Latin America.
Our music is available on iTunes and other leading digital web stores.
Thank you.
