Ambolley – Simigwa
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Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]
Club Africa
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Club Africa is the name of 2 compilations of “Hard African Funk, Afro-Jazz And Original Afro-Beat” released in 1999 and 2000.
70s & 80s Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba
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Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba playlist from the 3-LP set from Soundway Records’ release “Kenya Special – Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and ’80s”. There’s also a second volume with tracks from the same period. [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroCuban #Benga #Compilation #Kenya #Rumba
Gatanga Boys Band – Wendo Ti Mbia
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In 1970s Kenya the two threads of rumba and benga loosely dominated the music scene. Benga quickly became Kenya’s unique contribution to afro-pop; spreading like wildfire through the interior countryside with it’s fast, 4/4 machine-gun beat and intricate electric guitar layers. Listen to Gatanga Boys Band and you’ll see by yourself. […]
RIP Nana Ampadu
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Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, Nana Kwame Ampadu died on September 28, 2021.
In an interview from 2007, historian Jennifer Hart talks with him about the music that made him famous: "God was everywhere in the street."
Lafayette Afro Rock Band was an American funk band formed in New York in 1970. Shortly after their formation, they relocated to France.
Upon their relocation to Paris, the local music scene influenced the group's work, inspiring the addition of rock and African elements.
Soul Makossa is their 2nd album, released in 1973.
https://lafayetteafro-rockband.bandcamp.com/album/soul-makossa
Manu Dibango – Ah! Freak sans fric
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Ah! Freak sans fric…
Afrique sans fric…
Un très bon morceau, bien dansant de Manu Dibango.
"This album is dedicated to all brothers for a better vibration." [sleeve note]
L’album “Home Made” de 1979, enregistré au Nigeria, puis remixé et mastérisé à Paris, contient […]
Francis Bebey – Idiba
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“Idiba” (face B : Madonna Verona) est un 45T sorti par Francis Bebey en 1970, qui est certainement le premier titre d’inspiration Makossa diffusé en disque. La chanson sera ensuite reprise par de nombreux autres artistes.
#70smusic #Cameroon #Cover #FrancisBebey #Makossa #ManuDibango
Anything You Sow – William Onyeabor
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“Anything you sow” is one of the reissued albums by William Onyeabor, the pioneer of electronic music from Nigeria.
"Anything You Sow" was his last album before he gave his life over to Christ, turning his back on his musical output.
A 9xCD box set that collects the entirety of Onyeabor’s recorded output was released […]
Ali Chukus and His Peace Makers Dance Band
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Ali Chukwuma, under the nickname “Ali Chukus,” probably for his first album with the Peace Makers Dance Band in 1975. […]
#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic
Guelewar – Njarama
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Guelewar from Banjul, The Gambia, is amongst the most experimental, psychedelic bands out of Africa in the 70s, offering a unique sound and instrumentation, mixing traditional compositions with modern instruments.
Guelewar, always singing in Wolof, is known for their explosive mix of Soul and Funk, blended with local rhythms such as Boogaraboo, Saourouba and Ndaga. [...]
Mahmoud Ahmed & Badume’s Band – Mela Mela
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Mahmoud Ahmed, the Ethiopian crooner… Live @ Fiest’A Sète 2008.
Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas. […]
Mike Makhalemele – Going West
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Mike Makhalemele (1938-2000), from Alexandra, South Africa, nicknamed “Ratau” (“lion”), played saxophone, here with Jabu Nkosi (keyboards) and Sipho Gumede (bass) in a reissue of a classic album.
[He] was a force of nature with a robust yet soulful tone and seemingly endless breath. He embraced the pop music scene as an enthusiastic collaborator and […]
Bankolo Miziki – Masters of Congolese Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bankolo-miziki-wendo-alongwi-kinshasa/
Bankolo Miziki (“Masters of Music” in Lingala), subtitled “Les Pionniers de la Musique Congolaise de Leopoldville à Kinshasa” (Pioneers of Congolese Music from Leopoldville to Kinshasa) is a series of 3 compilations (anthology of sort) with multiple artists / pioneers of Congolese Rumba in the 50s. [...]
#50smusic #70smusic #Compilation #Congo #FullAlbum #Rumba #OldAfricanMusic
Highlife Time
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“Highlife Time – Nigerian and Ghanaian Sound from the 60s and Early 70s” a 2xCD or 2xLP compilation by Vampi Soul.
Highlife, dance music played mostly in Ghana and Nigeria, represents one of the century’s first fusions of African roots and western music, and before 1970 it ruled dancefloors across much of West Africa. […]
#60smusic #70smusic #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic
Psychedelic Afro Rock
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Compilation “Nigeria Rock Special – Psychedelic Afro Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria.” […]
Ofege – Try and Love (1973)
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The first time a group of teenagers snuck out of St. Gregory’s College in Lagos to audition at a recording studio, they were told to go back and focus on their studies. But they didn’t give up. In the early 1970s, the group, including Melvin Ukachi, Paul Alade, Dapo Olumide, and M-Ike Meme, formed Ofege. […]
Slim Ali and the Hodi Boys – You Can Do It
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Slim Ali was born in Mombasa, Kenya back in December of 1947 and started playing music while in high school at Hamisi Secondary School. He played some stints with the Kitale Hotel Band and the Tusker Band before deciding to join the Hodi Boys — a band formed in 1966 by Geoffrey Ngao, Nick Kim […]
Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou
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Super Borgou de Parakou was a band created by Moussa Mama and guitarist Menou Roch. This group, influenced by Afrobeat and Funk in the 1970s, also drew inspiration from Beninese folk music such as Bariba and Dendi.
Originating from the Kwara state of northwest Nigeria, the Bariba – a predominantly Islamic […]
Nigeria 70
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Originally released in 2001, the first volume of Nigeria 70 was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the fertile music scene in Lagos as domestic artists mixed Highlife and traditional rhythms with Soul, Funk, Rock and Jazz. Three further volumes followed, exploring the far corners of original Afrobeat, Juju, Funk and […]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #FullAlbum #Jazz #JùjúMusic #Nigeria
Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band
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The first full length album by The Walias Band & Hailu Mergia, recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label.
At Zula Club he and his mates formed Walias Band and did something no other band in Ethiopian nightclub history had done: they started buying their own musical instruments. Until then the club […]
Yoruba Women Of The Drum
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Not a lot of information on this album from 1995 with Madam Comfort Omoge and Madam Mujidat Ogunfala, called ”Yoruba Women Of The Drum”. It’s best to listen to it…
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music […]
#70smusic #Compilation #Drums #FullAlbum #LiveMusic #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic
Los Fantasios – Assez Pleuré
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Part of 2 compilations, titled "Soul Sega Sa ! Indian Ocean Segas From The 70s", covering music from islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean.
#70smusic #Compilation #IndianOcean #LaRéunion #Maloya #Mauritius #Sega #Folk
Nigeria Soul Power 70
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Compilation “Nigeria Soul Power 70 (Afro-Funk ★ Afro-Rock ★ Afro-Disco)” […]
Mad Man Jaga – Wakabout
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The “Wakabout” LP by Mad Man Jaga was originally released on Sir Victor Uwaifo‘s label JOROMI, in Nigeria, in 1978.
Musically the LP is a fairly unique collection of slightly off-killer percussive afrobeat funk; the arrangements are brass friendly, slick on the keys and framed with a rich resonant deep soul vocal and to complement […]
#70smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic #Reggae
