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From Ghana: Andy Vans - Come Closer
Unfortunately cannot find any information on this one ... Tracklist A1Try To Give2:45A2Paper Wrapped Pusher3:02A3Biggy Do4:20A4Ebusua Esuon4:13A5Medze Ndaa Se Be Ma Nyame3:40A6Come Closer3:08B1Nsem Yi...
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From Nigeria: The Faces - Wake Up Today
You hardly listen to records coming from Africa that are such pasterpieces. If it was not for the tempo, mostly mid tempo, of the LP, it would stand along with the Geraldo Pino killer releases. The...
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From South Africa: Piliso – Thumela
This was a group of South African exiles in Nigeria at the time. Wandile also played with Themba Matebese in his T- Fire group that got comped on some Soundway Nigerian compilations.That group featured...
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From UK: No Go Stop - Agbara Orin
The mighty 12-piece No Go Stop are much more than a tribute to past glories, they are a living, breathing evocation of the life-force that is Afrobeat. Boasting an impressive repertoire of self-penned,...
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The Jagger Botchway Group – Odze Odze
Jagger Botchway is most famous for his work with the Hedzoleh Soundz and Hugh Masekela. Jagger was also the driving force behind the highly sought-after Ghanaian afro-funk masterpiece Moving World by...
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From UK: The Sea Slugs - What’s Not Reflected
The Sea Slugs’ unique music is borne out of a collective condemnation of intolerance, a strong sense of solidarity with fellow humans, and a passion for the music of Fela Kuti. The result is a...
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From Israel: Hoodna Afrobeat Orchestra - Let Go
Hoodna Afrobeat Orchestra, also known H.A.O, is an Israeli Afrobeat band from the south part of Tel-Aviv, formed in 2013. Inspired by the humming and clanging of carpentry and metal workshops....
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From Spain: Mampön Afrobeat - Mampön
MAMPÖN was born in March 2010 in Barcelona and since then it has been part of the Afrobeat scene of the city. The group has been performing in venues like Marula, Almodobar, Resistance, Underground,...
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From Chile: Newen Afrobeat -
Newen is the first Afrobeat Afrobeat Orchestra in Chile. Formed in 2009, it is the answer from this part of the planet to the style created by Fela Kuti. Afrobeat music Newen is the union of African...
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900th post - From Netherlands: Umoja - Je-Ka-Lo! (for free)
First of all, Umoja should not be mixed up with American band with similar name Umjoa Orchestra (or here) even though both of them are have an afrobeat influence in their music! The sunshine duo from...
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From Argentina: El Gran Capitán Afrobeat (for free)
Unfortunately cannot find any information, not even a biography in Spanish! But still worth to listen to...Get their three EPs rightaway here!
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From Tanzania: Sunburst – Ave Africa
Strut is extremely proud to present a definitive collection of recordings from one of Tanzania’s most revered but short-lived bands of the 1970s, Sunburst. Covering their entire output from 1973 to...
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Heads Funk Band - Hard World
Hard World is the first of three albums released by Heads Funk Band and it's one of the most rare LPs coming from Nigeria. What we have here is a pure, well crafted Afro-Funk. Heads Funk Band is...
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Pasteur Lappe - African Funk Experimentals (1979 To 1981)
Amazing compilation of Cameroonian funk master Pasteur Lappe. "The story begins in the 60s with a charming 19 year old Nicolas "Pasteur" Lappe becoming a sensation on Radio Adele in Douala Cameroun. He...
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Career Retrospective For Highlife Master Pat Thomas
This Fall, we’re proud to present the first full career retrospective release for Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa,” Pat Thomas, covering his late ‘60s big band highlife...
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The Brighton Beat - Hear And Now
Driven by a unified belief in real people playing real instruments expressing real human emotions, The Brighton Beat's goal is to create music that is able to live, breath and develop, with songs that...
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From Nigeria: Mary Afi Usuah – African Woman
Mary Afi Usuah trained as an a opera singer at the prestigious St Cecilia Academy in Rome and spent 13 years touring Europe with artists like Duke Ellington and Deep Purple. She matched vocal chops...
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Geraldo Pino – Boogie Fever
When Geraldo Pino rolled into town from Sierra Leone with his Heartbeats, Nigeria had never seen anything quite like them. Slick, tight and playing the latest James Brown-style funk on the very...
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Benis Cletin - Jungle Magic
Full scale Afro-disco heat here on reissue machine PMG, opening with the mindblowing title track. Benis Cletin’s dog-rare 1979 cut “Jungle Magic” lays a warped synth over a lethal bassline and a slow...
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Light & Sound Of Mogadishu
There was a time in the 70s when Mogadishu was the coolest place in Africa. It was a city of whitewashed coral houses, colonial arcades on tree-lined boulevards and Italian Art Deco cafes looking over...
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