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Get it: Assalam Aleikoum Africa Volume 1&2
Assalam Aleikoum Africa Volume 1 (Progressive And Popular Music Of West Africa)A double helping this time. These two volumes were compiled from singles originally released by the Société Ivoirienne du...
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Get it: Edikanfo - The Pace Setters
The inside gatefold of this album touts Edikanfo as "African Super Band". Combine that with a production credit to Brian Eno and hip Mingus/Dolphy-esque abstract art on the inside and there was no way...
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MUSICAL EXPLORERS IN AFRICA
DECEMBER 1981We had met them together - Brian Eno, Jon Hassell and David Byrne. The strange alliance of the artistic avant-garde, the cerebral rock'n'roll of the '70s and unstable, nervous post-punk....
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Chicago Afrobeat Project - Nyash UP!
In the 10 years since its birth from Chicago's underground art and loft party scene, Chicago Afrobeat Project has performed coast to coast at clubs and festivals across the United States.2012 marks...
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From France: Walko Afrobeat
WALKO is a band from Nantes, France, which draws inspiration from the work of Fela Anikulapo KUTI the creator of the afrobeat, where its sources could be found in jazz, funk or highlife… Walko gets its...
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Get it: Afro J.E.T.S Club Project
"We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; For our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent."So...
View ArticleFrom Sweden: Okes Masima & the Afro Fusion Band
The band Members of Okes Masima & the Afro Fusion Band are comprises of Nine Swedish instrumentalist, One Swedish Dancer. The lead vocalist Okes Masima is from Nigeria. he plays the african Shekere...
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From Poland: Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra
Warsawgroup performingAfrobeat- a specieswhichisthe cradle ofNigeria. The teamin his workcombines elements ofAfrican culture, music,funk, reggae,andEuropean folklore.In addition tocopyrightworks,do not...
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Nigeria opens museum to "Afrobeat King" Fela Kuti
In the 1970s, Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music became the anti-establishment soundtrack of Africa, an anthem for those railing against the many despotic regimes that gripped the continent at the time.But 15...
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Tony Sarfo – Superman
TracklistA1 Superman A2 I Beg (Instrumental) A3 Lift It High A4 Promise And Fail B1 Yenda Nyame Ase B2 Mensah Makyi B3 Ena Baatan Pa B4 Mame Abena
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E.T. Mensah - 7inch (get it)
Mensah pioneered the development of the swing-jazz influenced highlife dance-bands that were so popular throughout West Africa in the 1950's and 60's. Indeed, these urban dance bands became the...
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The Wings - Tribute To Spud Nathan
Back Down Memory Lane:The Music and Times of the Wings and Superstar Spud NathanbyNnamdi N. NwudaIn the first part of this series on Music, Dr. Okorie and I looked at the setting for what became an...
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From France: Opposite Afrobeat Band
OppositeAfrobeatOrchestraBandwasfounded in Paris in2008.TheAfrobeatmusicis ahybridresulting from thefusionofrhythmsmeetingYoruba,jazz,high life,thejuju, soul, funk,and rock.FelaKutihad made aweapon...
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From France: ANerGy Afrobeat
The group ANerGy Afrobeat was born in February 2008 with the love of soul, vaudoo jazz, funk and African rhythms, all of which allow them to visit this fascinating rhythm, spirit and magic. .Make music...
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Get it: The Brighton Beat - Live @ Ryles Jazz Club
Driven by a unified belief in real people playing real instruments expressing real human emotions, their goal is to create music that is able to live, breath and develop, with songs that allow the...
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Monomono - Give the beggar a chance
As the name suggests, Give The Beggar A Chance shows the kind of social awareness largely absent from other releases of the same era. This is Africa, not America; out with 60s soul covers, in with...
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Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s &‘80s
Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s - a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one...
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Recent interviews from Femi Kuti for his new album "No place for my dream"
Femi Kuti and Postive Force visited Chicago’s Metro nightclub on a painfully cold winter night recently. Kuti arrived on stage visibly shivering, but wasted no time heating things up. The reigning...
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Adjaho G. Coffi - Adjaho G. Coffi
Adjao G.Coffi composed and played with Poly-Rythmo's orchestra in this wonderful recorded. Adjaho is an artist coming from theatre, but he is also a great music composer and singer. Popular, poetic,...
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From Ivory Coast: Jimmy Hyacinthe
His passionwas theguitar.From his beginningsas a musicianandamateurimitatoruntil hisconfirmationasan instrumentalisttalent,N'goranJimmyHyacinthewas faithful tothisinstrumentwhich theIvorian...
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