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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Black Times
Strut presents the new album from the modern day leader of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti. The youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti is as incensed by injustice as his father ever was and, with his...
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Muyiwa Kunnuji & Osemako - Mo Juba O
Baptized into the style of the precursors of 50s to 90s, Muyiwa Kunnuji is influenced by Afrobeat, Highlife, The Yoruba & Ogu rhythms, jazz, blues,Gospel. Muyiwa, a self-taught trumpeter, has...
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Popular Cooper And His All Beats Band Of Nigeria - Greediness Causes War
Unfortunately no information ... Tracklist A1Greediness Causes WarA2If You Never Know MeB1We Don Come To WorldB2Eware Akpo No Igbenuno
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Femi Kuti Announces New Album "One People One World"
Femi Kuti, the son of pioneering Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, today announces his 10th album, One People One World, will be released Feb. 23 via Knitting Factory Records. And to kick things off, he...
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Femi Kuti - One People One World
REVIEWSIn the five years between Femi Kuti's Grammy-nominated No Place for My Dream and One People One World, he's been a busy man. He regularly performs at The Shrine, the performance space he built...
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Tony Allen - The Source
Tony Allen: The Source – drummer's Blue Note debut reframes jazz in his own imageClassic Blue Note releases of the 1960s are filled with tracks that exoticise Africa, with names such as Afro Blue,...
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Dur Dur Band - Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks (by analog...
ollowing Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb's dangerous trip to Mogadishu in November of 2016, the label presents Dur Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks. Dur-Dur,...
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African Scream Contest Vol.2 - Benin 1963-1980 (by analogafrica)
A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog...
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Zamrock: Mike Nyoni & Born Free - My Own Thing
Zambian guitarist and singer/songwriter Mike Nyoni’s music is Zamrock only because he came of age during the country’s rock revolution. His preferred wah-wah to fuzz guitar, James Brown to Jimi...
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Oghene Kologbo & World Squad - Music No Get Enemy
Oghene Kologbo, born in Warri (Nigeria) in 1958, has been an integral member of the legendary Fela Kuti's Africa 70 for the whole life of the band. This made his tight tenor guitar playing be a...
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Polyrhythmics - Libra Stripes
Literally and figuratively, funk is a four-letter word. Through a process of reiteration and misappropriation, funk emerged from radically creative African-American empowerment and has since been...
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Fela Kuti: Musical Genius And Activist
Sunday 18 October was the final day of Felabration; a weeklong annual musical jamboree to celebrate the life, times, music, and ideology of the phenomenon called Fela. Born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun...
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Sampler: Two Niles to Sing a Melody
Ostinato presents "Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan", a superb Afro compilation released on 3xLP Gatefold with 20-page booklet & 2xCD Bookcase with 32-page booklet ......
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" Commandments" by The Seven Ups
Melbourne's 7-piece afro-groove combo, The Seven Ups, are releasing their third full length album, Commandments, and are throwing a launch party at Howler to celebrate.Building on the bands Funk and...
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Hoodna Orchestra - NO A.C
Hoodna 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.Originally...
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The unstoppable renaissance of Afrobeat
(Translated with googletranslate from German magazine WELT)He was pastor's son, polygamist, pothead and the inventor of a novel style of music: with his Afrobeat Fela Kuti reconciled Africa and the...
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Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara
Conquering lion of Highlife Music, Ebo Taylor has truly seen it all and done it all. The 83-year-old Saltpond based musician, songwriter and composer is just about to begin another world tour as he...
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Vaudou Game - Otodi
No one had been through those doors in years. Unchanged, seemingly untouched, just a guard watching over it- one wondered whether the place would ever see the light of day again. Built in the 70s by...
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Ebo Taylor About "Yen Ara"
Ebo, Good to hear your voice. Are you in Saltpond now?I’m in Saltpond now.Ah, I wish I was there. It’s cold and snowing here in New York. But we’re surviving.Well, I wish I was in New York.I would like...
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