Miles Cleret: Afro-Latin crossovers in music

A DJ since he was a teenager, he aims to bring tracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s to modern audiences.

Cleret dislikes the term 'World Music' as a western attempt to classify 'other' music, instead focusing on the multicultural crossovers between musical styles from many continents. This ethos extends to the dance parties he organizes in London, as well as the new bands his label promotes.

Here he talks to The Prisma about his work, new CDs from contemporary bands: Luso-Angolan "Batida" and Colombian "Ondatropica", and about Soundway Records- which he's run for 10 years, compiling forgotten tracks from Africa and Latin America, while giving a platform to bands that fuse old with new, north with south.

This interview was first published in The Prisma Multiculural Newspaper in September 2012, and can be read in full with images here:

https://theprisma.co.uk/2012/09/02/miles-cleret-afro-latin-crossovers-in-music-3/