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Batsumi - Moving Along (pt. II)
Sometimes a vinyl LP arrives in the mail and what an amazing good surprise it is! This week we happened to receive the latest reissue LP from Matt Temple at UK label Matsuli Music, heavy 180g vinyl,...
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From Benin/ Togo: Vaudou Game - Apiafo
Vaudou Game is a contemporary live band playing an authentic Togolese funk based on voodoo chants scales. The band is led by Peter Solo, singer and composer born in Aného-Glidji (Togo), birthplace of...
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"Finding Fela" movie
Documentarian Alex Gibney's "Finding Fela," about the legendary African pop star and political activist, feels like a rough draft for a very good movie. Parts of it are stirring because the subject...
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South African Jazz: The Jazz Ministers - Zandile (get it)
Victor Ndlazilwana began his career singing with the male quartette, the Woody Woodpeckers, in 1951. In 1959 he played the role of "The Journalist" in the hit show King Kong and continued with the...
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Tony Allen Announces New Album "Film of life"
By Gregory Adams Though the details are slim, it's been confirmed that prolific Afrobeat master drummer Tony Allen is set to issue his first solo effort in five years, Film of Life. While an exact due...
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From Zambia: Ngozi Family - Day Of Judgement
Coming this summer – proto-punk and garage Zamrock! The celebrated guitarist Paul Ngozi’s essential debut album. Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo.We’ve been talking about an anthology centered around...
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From South Africa: Spokes Mashiyane - King Kwela
Johannes "Spokes" Mashiyane (born Vlakfontein (Mamelodi), Pretoria 20 January 1933; died at Baragwanath Hospital of cirrhosis of liver 9 February 1972.) was regarded as one of the greatest...
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From Japan: JariBu Afrobeat Arkestra - JariBu
This guitar player definitely wears acoustic blinders. Single note lines and riffs similar to early James Brown recordings, executed with amazing perfection – one can’t imagine a more stoic...
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Soki Ohale's Uzzi - Chicken Fled
A track from the latest in the always brilliant Nigeria 70 series from the great Strut Records. There could have been five or six selections from this latest compilation, Nigeria 70 – Sweet Times:...
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Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro (Pt. II)
A Great Album From a MasterOrlando Julius has been making a joyful noise for a long time now, and his latest full-length, Jaiyede Afro, brings the gladdest of tidings: the man is still Afro-rocking...
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From Denmark: The KutiMangoes - Afro-Fire
This may sound like an Afro-Orchestra, but for sure not like a sextet, which The KutiMangoes actually are! Compact arrangements with extremely blazing horns, especially from the baritone sax and the...
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Coming soon ... Next Stop Soweto - Volume 4 - Spirit Of Malombo: Malombo Jazz...
Malombo Jazz MakersEssentially the broad history of Malombo can be broken up into two separate groups that often used the same name for different recordings by each group. Though starting as a single...
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A Guide To The Work Of Fela Kuti
Originally published by David Katz here!One of the most important musical and political figures to emerge in post-independence Nigeria, Fela Kuti was the legendary rebel and agent provocateur that...
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Tony Allen: The Beat of Afrobeat
The pulsating Yoruban derived rhythms that are so seductive and foundational in Afrobeat can be reduced to the work of one man, Tony Allen. Allen was self-taught, practicing his chops while working...
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Mr Voodoofunk presents ... First Planet - Top Of The World
First Planet - Top Of The World Afro-space-disco contagion — shuffling and wiggling, synthy and bubbling — from this re-incarnation of Willy Nfor’s Mighty Flames, recruited mostly from the wave of...
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Jones Coker - Action Boy
Ultra rare and highly in demand killer nigeria afro boogie lp on zanidisco!!!TracklistA1Walk AboutA2In My MindA3I Love My DarlingB1Action BoyB2I'm Coming HomeB3Be What You Gonna BeB4Black Magic Woman
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Online Afrobeat Radio!
Information on their FB page:We just launched a cool new station featuring all the best Afrobeat. If you dig Funk, Jazz, Highlife, and knotty rhythms, check it out today! Check it outhere
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Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984
Born Bad Records present 'Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984', a thrilling collection of material from Cameroonian artist Francis Bebey. A follow-up to 'African Electronic Music 1975 - 1982', this release...
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750th post: Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music 1975-1982
Francis Bebey was never one for rest. The Cameroonian native had already lived a full life as an accomplished academic attending the Sorbonne (for English) and NYU (for journalism and media studies),...
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