Transglobal Underground

The Seahorse Second new release of the year coming up! ‘The Seahorse’ features Sheema Mukherjee on lead vocals and sitar and will be released on July 9th

CDRs of Doin’ the Moonshine now available We have a limited number of CDRs of the current single now available with one remix and an extra track, ‘Darjeeling Train’  featuring Sheema on sitar. Available via Bandcamp: https://transglobalunderground.bandcamp.com/album/doin-the-moonshine

Neil Sparkes It’s very tough, so soon after the sad news of Yanka Rupkina, to have lost another key character in the Transglobal Underground story. Neil Sparkes was the band’s regular MC, percussionist and onstage raconteur in the bands early years. But perhaps he was most important as the motivator, Read more

Yanka Rupkina We were saddened to hear about the death of Yanka Rupkina, the chief vocalist of the legendary Trio Bulgarka, and a member of the choir from Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares,  who we worked with on several memorable occasions. Yanka sang with a late version of the Trio Read more

Spring tour dates!

New single! ‘Doin’ the Moonshine’ is now available on Bandcamp. You want genres? How about Digisquaredance? Transglobal Underground, noted over 35 years for their utter lack of respect for all boundaries and musical limitations surpass themselves with a new release ‘Doin’ the Moonshine.’ Initially inspired by attending one or two Read more

December Greetings from Transglobal Underground. It’s the last Bandcamp Friday of the year and we have a new batch of our Transglobal Underground Mule 36 Tshirts and hoodies, so for 24 hours only we’ve reduced the prices by £2 for tshirts and £4 for hoodies. If you want them, this Read more

Bandcamp Friday release: Xangbetos. TGU 90s Afrobeat On this Bandcamp Friday we follow up our re-discovery of TGU side project Beach Bellydance Babylon last month with ‘Notions Potions and Lotions‘ by TGU side prjoect Xangbetos.In the late 90s, Hamid Mantu teamed up with Jo Cohen of the Bollywood Band and Read more

Bandcamp Beach Bellydance Bonanza! Garage band Bellydance for Bandcamp Friday September 5th! We’ve found a long lost TGU side project originally released in 2008 and present an EP in digital form and the whole album on CD. In 2007, Tim Whelan, Hamid Mantu and Aly El Minyawi (then percussionist with Read more