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Alim Qasimov Ensemble & Kronos Quartet - Getme Getme

2012-01-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

Do they know what kwanzaa time is 4?

2011-12-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

♪♪♪♪ KWANZAA IV ♪♪♪♪

Zazou Bikaye + CY1 - Lamuka
Amaswazi Emvelo & Mahlathini - Indon'emnyama
Proletário - Kimbombeia
Etoile de Dakar - Yalaye dogal
African System Orchestra - Baby Agnes
Bembeya Jazz National - Djanfamagni
Professor Jay ft Ferooz - Nikusaidiaje
X Plastaz - Msimu Kwa Msimu
Thione Seck - Dieylo
Ambassadeurs International - N'toman
Theo Blaise Kounkou - Bintou

happy hanukkah!

Elmeddin İbrahimov (Azerbaijan)

2011-10-23T14:34:00.000-07:00

THIONE BALLAGO SECK w/Akon live on Senegalese TV

2011-10-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

Mbalax dance-off with Akon, Didier Drogba and El Hadji Diouf!

Le SAHEL (Idrissa Diop, Cheikh Tall, Thierno Koité) - Tioro Baye Thierno

2011-09-25T14:17:00.000-07:00

There was recently a reissue of some nice old mbalax by Idrissa Diop and friends from the label Teranga Beat

review @Rhytm Connection

X Plastaz - Msimu kwa Msimu

2011-09-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

Penny Penny

2011-08-14T02:42:00.000-07:00

Penny Penny is is awesome awesome. Checkout these 2 albums @awesome tapes from africa

Groupe ait Baamrane

2011-08-06T07:28:00.000-07:00

Groupe Ait Baamrane by amdlfao

Amazones de Guinee - Ah N'dia

2011-08-06T07:21:00.000-07:00

♪♪♪ African Empress Express ♪♪♪

2011-08-06T07:12:00.000-07:00

♪♪♪ African Empress Express ♪♪♪

Mixcast/podtape made for Norwegian magazine UTFLUKT

www.utflukt.no

TRACKLIST

Hiran'ny Tanoran'ny Ntao Lo - Oay lahy e (Madagascar)
Martha Ulaeto - Ndito isong emana nyin (Nigeria)
Les Amazones De Guinée - Demembalou (Guinea)
Kiné Lam - Mame Thierno (Senegal)
Ami Koita - Defa wane (Mali)
Aby Ngana Diop - Dieuleul-dieuleul (Senegal)
Ramata Diakite - Kana kassi (Mali)
Bébé Manga - Amie (Cameroun)
Fatou Laobé - Doolé (Senegal)
Virtuose Diabate ft. unknown singer - Sankaranka (Guinea)

DJ Kreismyr - African Empress Express by kreismyr

♪♪♪ KWANZAA III ♪♪♪

2010-12-23T14:34:00.000-08:00

Happy holidays y'alls! This is this year's kwanzaa tape. African dance music for the holiday season. Mediafire zip for your mp3 pleasure

TRACKLIST
Mandingo Ambassadors - Malakounya
Professor Jay - Vuta raha
Dessalegn Melku - Endateleyachehu
Mahotella Queens - Zibuyile nonyaka
Penny Penny - Shaka bundu
Oliver de Coque & his Expo '76 - Anyi cholu uwa silili welele
Belly Steve et les Soeurs Mariana - Tulante ya meinu
Fode Kouyate - Sokho
Opiyo Bilongo & Extra Golden - I Miss You Pt. 2
Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International - Polygamy

DJ Kreismyr - Kwanzaa III by kreismyr

♪♪♪ MIGRAPOLIS ♪♪♪

2010-12-23T14:21:00.000-08:00

TRACKLIST
Tarkan - Simarik (Turkey)
Rita Abatzi - Hira ke mangas (Widow and Mangas) (Greece)
Guillermo Buitrago - La Hija De Mi Comadre (Colombia)
Jorginho do Imperio - Potpourri Partido Alto (Brazil)
Wilmoth Houdini & Gerald clark's night owls - No mo' bench and board (Trinidad)
Lord Invader - Mary Ann (Trinidad)
Abdi Muhumud Amin & Waaberi Artists- Aynaaka hay (Somalia)
Unknown - Roho yangu (Zanzibar)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Daikhnay Ko YaMohammed (There Is No Other Like Mohammed) (Pakistan)
Unknown - Mundiyan dil de (India)
Nazir Ali feat Nahid Akhtar - Society Girl (Pakistan)
Vinicio Franco - Soy teenanger (Dominican Republic)
Juan Piña y su Orquesta - La puyanga (Colombia)
Carlos Martelo y su Orquesta - Vacilando (Colombia)
Mandalay Sein Mottah - Lover of smiling girls (Burma)
Shoukichi Kina - Crazy kacharsee (Japan)
Chailai Chaiyata & Sawanee Patana - Kwuan Tai Duew Luk Puen (You Should Die By Bullets) (Thailand)
Unknown - Daichovo Horo No. 2 (Macedonia)

DJ Kreismyr - MIGRAPOLIS by kreismyr

zipfile of the individual mp3s

Dur Dur (Somalia)

2010-02-27T04:44:00.000-08:00

A few months ago I was completely taken by this Somali funk band called Dur Dur. At youtube I found a bunch of videos from a wonderful concert of theirs, in Djibouti, 1993. The playfulness of the scenes remind me a lot of the Talking Heads concert movie, Stop Making Sense. I'm not going to post all the videos here but you can find them by browsing related videos.

Many thanks to the Kezira blog for posting the songs from their cassette "Africa". I took the liberty of lumping them together into a zip here. One of the songs, the track entitled "Ethiopian Girl", is actually not a Dur Dur song, but the 80s hit "I've been thinking about you" by London Beat. It remains a mystery how it got in there, but the cassette rip sound gives it a new edge and also makes it sound kind of like somali funk. Thanks also to Likembe for the original heads up. At Likembe you can find songs from another brilliant somali band, Iftin.

Mathias Tjønn - Interim EP out now

2010-02-15T11:20:00.000-08:00

Say hello to the fledgling duke of chamber pop, my good friend and New York-based, Norwegian born and bred singer/songwriter, Mathias Tjønn. Mathias recorded this debut EP in Boston with friends from Berklee music college pitching in on strings, horns and backing vocals. Interim ep is available at iTunes and CDbaby. Mathias' website

Mathias Tjønn - I Wrote a Book and that Means I Can Do Anything by kreismyr
Mathias Tjønn - Vi elsket dem. Alle by kreismyr

Season's Greetings!

2009-12-29T16:38:00.000-08:00

Kwanzaa times are here again, and i have been passing this link around to family and friends to set the holiday mood. 12 tracks of explosive african dance music.

KWANZAA_II

Dessalegn Melku – Guazuadegnozocheze
Super Jamono de Dakar – Yaraal sa doom
Johnny Bokelo – Moi Pas Comprendre Toi
Oliver de Coque & his Expo ‘76 – All Fingers Are Not Equal
Dur Dur – Hak Somalk Dumark
Extra Golden – Love Hijackers
Moussa Doumbia – Black & White
Mahmoud Ahmed – Nafqot Nèw Yègodagn
Cheb Amar – Sid El Harat
22 Band de Kankan – Sapony
Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Moçambique – Piquenique
Number One de Dakar – Adouna

Merry kwanzaa & a happy new year people!

Izanzaren

2009-11-05T09:59:00.000-08:00

The place to get IZANZAREN is at the blog called Snap, Crackle and Pop. Comes heavily recommended. It's from the 60s and 70s, from the mountains of Morocco. The sound often reminds me of Tinariwen, though the jams are longer and the style is unique, the grooves are pretty similar. So I guess we could call it mountain blues. Heavy moroccan mountain blues banjo jams. And check out the pictures (!)

Golden age Guinea mix

2009-10-31T06:51:00.000-07:00

Golden age Guinean mandingo music has been constant in my ears & head for a few months. It's a really distinct style, the vocals, guitarwork and horn arrangements are all off the hook. The bands have awesome names like Le Simandou de Beyla, 22 Band de Kankan, Le Nimba N'Zerekore and Tropical Djoli Band de Faranah. If you want more there are impressive guinea/mandingo back catalogues at worldservice and globalgroove.

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In april I was lucky enough to catch the Mandingo Ambassadors in Brooklyn, New York. They are led by guitarist Mamady Kouyate who was in Bembeya Jazz National back in the heydays. If you are ever in New York, they play every wednesday at Barbés by Park Slope.

OST: Farz (1967) & Jeene ki raah (1969)

2009-10-04T15:30:00.000-07:00

This is great bollywood pop from the songwriting brains of Bollywood composer duo Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, aka Laxmikant-Pyarelal aka "LP" aka Laxmi-Pyare. The songs were sung by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, and then of course mimed acted and danced by someone more beautiful in the movies. Anyway, the music is sweeet.

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The Thai that binds

2009-03-06T12:02:00.000-08:00

12 tracks drawn from vintage Thai music compilations, Thai Beat a Go Go Vols. 1-3 samt Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s. Adds up to 33.6 minutes, which coincidently happens to be the exact amount of Thai music you can listen to without going koko like the guy on the cover above.

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Do they know it's Kwanzaa time at all? African xmas mix

2008-12-22T04:56:00.000-08:00

Tracklist

“Obama” – Extra Golden

“Ma Jaiye Oni” – King Sunny Ade & His African Beats

“Obere nwa n’amu irienu” – Oliver de Coque & his Expo ‘76

“Sou” – Les Messagers du Mali

“Afufu uwa” – Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz

“Nduranga Ngwetereire” – Queen Jane

“Yèqondjowotch Mendèr” – Hirut Beqele

“Aykedashem lebe” – Tlahoun Gessesse

“Almaz Men Eda Nèw – Mahmoud Ahmed

“Chérie Sylla” – Theo Blaise Kounkou

“Guitar Boy” – Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Titibitis

“Goodbye Hully!” – Brother Charlly Computer & the Gloria Kings

“Oualahila Ar Tesninam” – Tinariwen

“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” – The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit)

part 1

part 2

Repi Multimedia - Fishing With Dynamite (2008)

2008-11-18T06:26:00.000-08:00

From my favourite Albanian DJ team and/or band Repi Multimedia we get this new collection of "can i get a w00t w00t"-remixes.

From last.fm:
Repi Multimedia formed in 2006 in an upstairs rehearsal room on George W. Bush Street (formerly Barrikada Street) in Tirana, the capital of Albania. The group consists of ex-members of Tirana-based electronic punk band Rexhep Versus Meidani Versus Rexhep (who have been described as 'Atari Teenage Riot on herbal tea') and the Shkodra-based Albanian folk music collective Gjirocasta Cyclops. This musical clash is made obvious when you hear this unprecedented and original blend of traditional tunes from Albania, Egypt and elsewhere with hard and unpredictable breakbeats: the danciest music ever!

The three members of Repi Multimedia are Sali Troja, credited with 'electric chiftelia and 5 other instruments' (although it is unclear whether he really plays these instruments, seeing as so much of their music is made up of ultra-modern remixes of folk artists), Petrika Berisha, sampler and sequencer (but is credited on the album as 'stereo left channel'), and Petrika's sister Roza, sampler and sequencer (but is credited on the album as 'stereo right channel').

They run their own club night in Tirana called Oum Oum Oum Oum Oum and granted the media only one interview, when they appeared on Tirana's TAR FM radio station in January 2008, to promote their album 'Fishing with Dynamite'. In this interview, Sali and Petrika did not speak at all, and Roza, instead of answering questions, merely proclaimed 'Magnets have souls and everything is made of water' five times. That's according to the Albanian newspapers - maybe someone out there has a recording of the interview?

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Juju treats: Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey vs. King Sunny Adé vs. Theophilus Iwalokun

2008-11-15T06:28:00.000-08:00

Just in case you need more than just a little juju, here are some useful links. King Sunny Adé and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey are both kings of juju. There´s an equal power sharing situation, although King Sunny may be more widely known because of the international success of the 1982 album Juju Music. These records are usually 2 x 20 minute long jams of mellow slinky guitar sounds and supersoft singing. Here's some of the right juju stuff that you can find out in de blogosphere.

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & his Inter-Reformers Band- Eda to mose okunkun (1975)
@ worldservice

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & his Inter-Reformers Band - Joy of Salvation (1981)
@no condition is permanent

King Sunny Ade & his African Beats - Juju Music of the 1980s (1981)
@ global groove

King Sunny Adé & his African Beats - Bobby (1983)
@ no contiotion is permanent

(keep looking at no condition is permanent and you find still more King Sunny albums.)

... And then when you start to think juju is exclusively about these two guys, the worldservice blog throws us a surprise, this guy Theophilus Iwalokun who sounds just as cool as the others, and can provide som well deserved variation after hearing King Sunny and Ebenezer for hours and hours.

Theophilus Iwalokun - Philosopher (year unknown)
@ worldservice

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Devotional and Love Songs (1993)

2008-09-22T14:02:00.000-07:00

OK it´s time for the Sufi master of Pakistan. This album features the song "Yaad-e-nabi gulshan mehka", famous in some circles for its repetetive insisting line "Ja, den har vi", as if surprisingly fulfilling some obscure request.

Kind of lame cover, i dont know what its supposed to depict. Those rainbow colours signify that the album has something to do with Peter Gabriel somehow.

yoink

Youssou N´dour - Nothing´s in Vain (Coono du réér) (2002)

2008-09-22T13:23:00.000-07:00

I guess y´all know who Youssou is, master of the mbalax, humanitarian leader, african ambassador to the world. This album, like 2007´s "Rokku mi rokka", is superb.

yoink

Jorginho do Império - Viagem Encantada (1975)

2008-09-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

Dont blog it if you dont mean it, so the saying goes. This time it´s already been blogged by the mighty global groove blog, so the yoink gonna be redirectin´ you there. I never thought samba would sound so right.

yoink

Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman: Jin Jin / Firefly (2000)

2008-09-22T12:07:00.000-07:00

More music power from Okinawa, this is more acoustic and mellow than Mr. Kina. If you go ask wikipedia about Bob Brozman thay will tell you he is an american ethnomusicologist and guitarist and has collaborated with all sorts of different people.

yoink

Shoukichi Kina - Peppermint Tea House (1994)

2008-09-22T11:42:00.000-07:00

Crazy Kacharsee! Googling this album I discovered that it´s a kind of best-of compilation, that it was released on Luaka Bop, David Byrne´s label, and that Ry Cooder plays on several tracks. It is happy because it is from Okinawa!

yoink

Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe - Sound Time (1970-75)

2008-08-17T12:05:00.000-07:00

Chief Stephen made great nigerian highlife music for you to chillax to. "Hello folks... Long time, no see... Now it´s sound time."

yoink

Lord Invader - Calypso in New York (2000)

2008-08-16T06:19:00.000-07:00

Recordings from Rupert Grant aka Lord Invader from the 1940s and 1950s.

She walked with such elegance
And spoke with such feminine eloquence
I introduced myself as Lord Invader
The object said, "my name is Madame Erica"
Surpisingly it turned out to be
That the object was of de same specie as me
Man dancin with man
I cannot tell a man from a woman
I caught myself walking hand in hand
Wit a man dressed in woman on de Reeperbahn

yoink

The Boll Bedd Wedding Tape

2008-08-16T06:12:00.000-07:00

Boll Bedd has got married! Congratulation´s! This mixtape of african party tunes was used in some kind of crazy batcheleorette party scheme for Boll Bedds lovely wife.

yoink

The Incredible String Tape - best of the incredible string band

2008-08-16T05:56:00.000-07:00

The music of The Incredible String Band is phantastic. Heres a few of my favourites, picked from The Incredible String Band (1966), The Chealsea Session (1967) The 5000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion, Wee Tam (1968), The Hangman´s Beautiful Daughter (1968), and Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air (1971).

yoink

Exuma (1970) & Exuma II (1970)

2008-08-03T13:45:00.000-07:00

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Exuma, aka the obeah man, aka Tony McKay, aka Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey, was raised in the district of Exuma in the Bahamas. As a young guy he moved to New York and had some success as Exuma. This music is off the hizzle. There´s a lot of voodoo religiosity in there, and maybe some acid. It doesnt sound like he´s kidding when he tells us of the vision he had last night, where he met the devil and the angels and the obeah man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exuma_%28musician%29

Zanzibara 2: 1965-1975 - Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab

2008-08-01T15:42:00.000-07:00

This sweeet taarab music from zanzibar sounds to me more like greek or turkish music, but is actually from the island east of tanzania and kenya.

yoink

King Sunny Adé & His African Beats - Juju Music (1982)

2008-08-01T15:05:00.000-07:00

This is probably the best known ´juju´ album. Juju music is mellow and experimental at the same time, and the result is the laidbackest afropop you can imagine

get it at babeblogue

Opiyo Bilongo & Extra Golden - When I Was in U.S. (2008)

2008-08-01T14:46:00.000-07:00

This is probably my favourite album of 2008 so far. Extra Golden is a half kenyan half american band. Their music is primarily based in the ´benga´ genre.

It is an online only release, go and buy it instantly for a couple of bucks from kanyokanyo.com

here

If you like it, get "Hera ma nono" (2007) too, which also features Bilongo. Extra Golden is a great band no doubt, and with Bilongo it is an even greater band - let's hope he can be involved in the future as well!