African Scream Contest 2
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African Scream Contest 2 est le deuxième tome, exclusivement consacré au Bénin, de ces compilations, sorti 10 ans après le précédent album. L’album couvre la période 1963-1980 dans la musique béninoise.
"A trove of Vodoun-inspired Afrobeat heavy funk crossover greatness Right from the laceratingly raw guitar fanfare which kicks off [...]
Chrissy Zebby Tembo – My Ancestors
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My Ancestors by Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family. Originally released in 1976, this is one of the greatest releases from Zambia’s Zamrock scene.
The album travels the darker undercurrents of 70s rock and roll, warping and heightening the influences of Jimi, the Stones, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, and James Brown.
27 year old Chrissy […]
Mahotella Queens – Umculo Kawupheli
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The classic Mahotella Queens hit song, “Umculo Kawupheli” (“The music never ends”), from 1973. Original song with self-made video, featuring clips of the Queens back in the 1970s with their backing group the Makgona Tsohle Band.
From the golden age of South African township jive, the country’s premier mbaqanga girl group, the Mahotella Queens, and […]
Les prophètes oubliés du groove africain
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Les prophètes oubliés du groove africain : éclipsés par l’ascension de l’astre Fela Kuti, ils ont pourtant fait danser l’Afrique des années funk. […] En Occident, le tout est ramassé dans une nouvelle catégorie —la world music— un magma informe qui s’est depuis effrité sous les coups de boutoirs répétés de labels indépendants, [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #Cameroon #Ghana #Libya #Nigeria #Soundcloud #AfroFunk #Funk
Amadou Balaké – Super Bar Konon Mousso
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Although the video says it was recorded in Lagos in 1978, the reality, as Discogs states and as many musicians and bands did at that time, is that Amadou Balaké (or Ballaké) from Burkina Faso gathered musicians in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
AfroFunk Mixed
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A (too) short eclectic selection of Psychedelic, AfroFunk, AfroDisco and AfroLatino tracks, some remixed, from various origins and decades…
A few alternative vibes too, if you listen to the whole playlist.
Enjoy!
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #AfroHouse #AfroLatino #Disco #Dub #Mixtape #Nigeria #Remixed
Fela Kuti – Yellow Fever
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“Yellow Fever”, released in 1976, is a scathing criticism of post-colonial Nigerians who cannot shake their “colonial mentality.” Fela rails on Nigerian (and African) women who bleach their skin as an act of beauty, contemptuously adding that, despite what they think, it only makes them less attractive.
Fela deplores the fashion among African women for […]
Okyerema Asante – Mother Africa
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“Mother Africa” from the album "Drum Message," a seminal bit of funky Afrojazz from the DC scene of the 70s!
The album features work by Okyerema Asante (Ghanaian master percussionist) and also includes sax work by James “Plunky” Branch (aka Plunky Nkabinde) — best known as the leader of the group Oneness Of Juju. […]
Electric Mamba – Zingo
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This “African 70smusic” styled song is a collaboration between Idylle Mamba and the French Afrobeat band Electric Safari (Lyon).
Fela Kuti – Shuffering & Shmiling
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From the LP “Shuffering and Shmiling” in 1978. Listen to the full track (21 minutes long), originally spanning two sides…
As Fela progressed as an artist, he also evolved into a political and social tour de force in Nigeria. In “Shuffering and Shmiling”, an expansive track spanning two sides and reaching over 20 minutes in […]
Hugh Masekela- I Am Not Afraid
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Before listening to a revisited version of Hugh Masekela’s “In the Market Place,” released on the trumpeter’s 1974 album “I Am Not Afraid,” here’s side 1 of this Chisa Record, produced by Stewart Levine, with Hedzoleh Soundz as backing band. […]
King of Modern Agbadja
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4 songs by this magnificent artiste were included in the compilation Legends of Benin from 2009. This new compilation presents a full and deserved project about Gnonnas Pedro, the king of Modern Agbadja, with tracks between 1974 and 1983.
Very early in his career Gnonnas Pedro had landed his first hit with a song called […]
Xalam – Festival Horizonte
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Xalam is a Senegalese band that’s known for its Jazz Fusion, mixing western instrumentation with traditional African percussion and rhythms. Ade is a live concert recorded at Festival Horizonte in Berlin in 1979 and their first international release.
Manu Dibango – Senga (1974)
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From his excellent album “Makossa Man” released on the Atlantic label, this is in fact the second version of “Senga” Manu Dibango recorded, this one with an AfroFunk touch.
The original version comes from his self titled album released in 1971 on Fiesta Records.
One Night in Pelican
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“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub.
Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of […]
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Ghana Soundz
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Ghana Soundz: AfroBeat, Funk & Fusion in 70’s
Ghana Pounding rhythms, blaring horns and pumping vocals – the music is a document of a time forgotten when flares and Cuban heels strutted the streets and night-spots of Accra, the sizzlingly hot and humid capital of Ghana. Influenced as much by traditional rhythms and local highlife […]
London Luanda Remix Series
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London-based production duo The Busy Twist revisits & remixes psychedelic Angolan guitars and rhythms from the 60s and 70s in their LP “London Luanda Remix Series” released in 2019.
From St Lucia to Jamaica to Ghana to Colombia, The Busy Twist collective has travelled the globe to create their dance floor killing productions. The Remix […]
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 – Pansa Pansa
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This video for Pansa Pansa is one of the few pro-shot concerts of legendary musician Fela Kuti, playing with his band Africa 70 at the Jazz Festival in Berlin in 1978.
Underground System was among the better recordings of Fela’s late career, comprised of […]
Tabansi Studio Band
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Tabansi Studio Band – Wakar Alhazai Kano & Mus’En Sofua: four incredible tracks of late-70s/early 80s Afrobeat (almost-undiscovered) magic, but not Fela’s Yoruba/Pidgin Afrobeat.
This is Igbo and Hausa Afrobeat, a very different style…
Enjoy!
The beats are laid down by the seven legendary Martin Brothers —of ‘Money’ fame— whilst vocals are courtesy of a multi-lingual […]
Nath & Martin Brothers – Money
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The Martin Brothers, actual brothers, also known as The Shadows International with Saxon Lee, behind Pax Nicholas on the “Na Teef” album or as Tabansi Studio Band, made themselves known as one of THE backing-studio-bands in Nigeria before working on this album together.
“Money” was recorded in the legendary Arc-studios, supervised by Fela Kuti’s drummer [...]
Sam Mangwana – Georgette
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“Georgette Eckins” on album “Sam Mangwana et l’African All Stars” released in 1978, when the band was rising.
The African All Stars is particularly aptly named, having featured no less than Dally Kimoko, Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Syran Mbenza among other emblematic signatures of Congolese rumba. In the late 70s, the orchestra accompanied Sam Mangwana on […]
SJOB Movement – Stone Funk
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“For a moment in the mid-1970s, SJOB Movement were le dernier cri in modern Nigerian music, representing the next step in the evolution of afro rhythms.”
Their album “A Move in the Right Direction” was released in 1976 and contained 5 tracks: Country Love, No One Cares, You Only Live Once, Omo Oloro (To […]
First Modern Taarab Vibes
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Black Star Musical Club was one of the classic Taarabu bands in Tanga, Tanzania. It was founded in the 1950s, and played a crucial role in establishing the modern Taarab sound.
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. It is influenced by […]
#70smusic #80smusic #Kenya #Taarab #Tanzania #OldAfricanMusic
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Gbeti Madjro
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The greatest band in Benin’s history, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo… Here with the classic Gbeti Madjro, in 2 versions: the original (1971) and a cover with Angélique Kidjo.
Benin’s all-time great big band with their first new album for over 25 years. Retaining their celebrated ‘vodou-funk’ sound, Poly Rythmo reprise original hits like ‘Holonon’ along new composositions [...]
Nyboma & les Kamale Dynamiques
https://amf.didiermary.fr/double-double-nyboma-kamale-dynamiques-zaire/
Orchestre Kamale (aka “Kamale Dynamiques”) was formed in 1975 by singer Nyboma Mwan’dido with members of Orchestre Lipua-Lipua, where he was a singer from 1973 to 1975 and where he had his first hit “Kamale”.
Orchestre Kamale didn’t last very long and split up in 1978.
