The mythic live album “Paris-Ziguinchor” by Toure Kunda in 1984.
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Tabu Ley Rochereau – Pitié
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tabu-ley-rochereau-pitie/
This song from the album Babeti Soukous was recorded live in the Wood Studio at Real World in Box, Wiltshire on January 30 1989. On that night the legendary Congolese rumba star Tabu Ley Rochereau, and his outstanding band Afrisa International, revisited a significant song in his long and illustrious career. This is a European […]
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Grito De Bo Fidje – Boy Gé Mendes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/boy-ge-mendes-grito-de-bo-fidje/
Like many in France at the time, I discovered Boy Gé Mendes, the Cape Verdean guitarist and vocalist, born in 1952 in Dakar, Sénégal, through an ad on TV.
But there’s more to his career than the song “Grito De Bo Fidje”. With his brother Jean-Claude, Manú Lima, and Luís Silva, he formed “Cabo Verde […]
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Sankomota - Now or Never (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSffSzDxN_Q
About Sankomota: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankomota
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Just in case you feel an urgent need to dance, here's some Soukous from 1988...
Zitany Neil - Marcory Gasoil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmwh2GymMA
JE Movement – Ma Dea Luv
https://amf.didiermary.fr/je-movement-ma-dea-luv/
Before Kwaito, in 1988, JE Movement released Ma Dea Luv, the first album of the duo formed by James Nyingwa et Elliot Faku. It’s dance music, a mix of Soul, R&B, Funk and Hip-hop. The eponym track is considered a wordplay on Mandela, who was imprisoned at the time.
Toward the end of the 1980s […]
#80smusic #Apartheid #Kwaito #SouthAfrica #HipHop #Funk #RnB
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Oluko Imo – Were Oju Le
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oluko-imo-were-oju-le/
Caribbean Afrobeat? Oluko Imo, a multi-instrumentalist from Trinidad and Tobago, leader of the Black Truth Rhythm Band, settled in New York in the 1980s. It was during this period that he recorded “Were Oju Le” (The Eyes Are Getting Red) with the genre’s legend, Fela Kuti and his son Femi.
This nearly nine-minute track, a […]
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E & S Brothers – Taduma
https://amf.didiermary.fr/e-s-brothers-taduma/
E & S Brothers’ 1985 album Taduma holds a unique yet overlooked place in the history of South African dance music, the era of Bubblegum Music.
When Shadrack Ndlovu and Ernest Segeel teamed up with Dane Stevenson, owner of Blue Tree Studio in downtown Johannesburg, and journeyman producer Taso Stephanou, South Africa’s bubblegum era had […]
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Call me a big huge nerd, but I love how-it’s-made videos. 🤓 And I especially love videos showing vinyl records being pressed. And I especially, especially love a video showing our new 80s kids album being pressed! Eeeeeee!
We just got this video from Waxwork Records, where earlier this week that Pac-Man splatter design that we dreamed up came to life. Can you even believe how cool this is??
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K1 de Ultimate – Talazo ’84
https://amf.didiermary.fr/k1-ultimate-talazo-84/
Fuji music, a style of music with deep roots in 50s traditional “Were” music performed to keep Yoruba Muslims entertained during the holy month of Ramadan, was also a battleground for a few artists like Wasiu Ayinde Marshall (aka K1 De Ultimate). Mid ’80s, Wasiu, one of the singers in Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister’s band, […]
Free Youth – We Can Move
https://amf.didiermary.fr/free-youth-we-can-move/
Free Youth released the single “We Can Move” in 1985, one of the first known examples of Ghanaian HipHop, emerging at the dawn of “HipLife” (HipHop meets Highlife). It was the trio’s only release and originally pressed on 7″ vinyl.
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Toure Kunda – Emma
https://amf.didiermary.fr/toure-kunda-emma/
Ismaïla Touré, l’un des fondateurs du groupe Toure Kunda avec son frère Sixu Tidiane Touré, vient de décéder à Paris à l’âge de 73 ans.
Le titre “Emma” (M’ma), sur leur premier album “Mandinka Dong” est certainement, encore aujourd’hui, le plus connu. Toure Kunda, la “famille éléphant” légende de la musique sénégalaise, fut l’un des […]
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Manu Dibango – Ebony Tracks (Percussion Storm)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-ebony-tracks-percussion-storm/
“Ebony Tracks (Percussion Storm)” is from Manu Dibango’s “B Sides” album, released in 2002. It contains short and long remixed versions of Soul Fiesta.
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Cameroon #Compilation #Jazz #ManuDibango #OldAfricanMusic
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Rick Asikpo & Afro Fusion – Got To Be Me
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rick-asikpo-afro-fusion-got-to-be-me/
The funkiest of Nigerian musicians? Mythical soul and boogie album recorded in Louisiana in 1981 by multi-instrumentalist Rick Asikpo when he was studying in Houston, Texas.
Rick Asikpo started his musical career while studying in Houston, joining local Black Artist collective The People’s Workshop, before returning to Nigeria and releasing [...]
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Manu Dibango – Waka Juju
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-waka-juju/
Waka Juju is an ode to Juju Music on this 6-track album from 1982.
Mixing Afrobeat, Highlife and Jazz Funk influences across 6 tracks, Dibango incorporated electronic elements into his sound, with synths played by legend Wally Badarou.
#80smusic #Bénin #Cameroon #Highlife #Jazz #JujuMusic #LiveMusic #ManuDibango #AfroBeat
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Bhundu Boys – Jit Jive
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bhundu-boys-jit-jive/
The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band, founded in April 1980 by Rise Kagona et Biggie Tembo, that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit (also known as jiti, jit-jive and the Harare beat).
The Zimbabwean group first flew into […]
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Edo Funk Explosion
https://amf.didiermary.fr/edo-funk-explosion/
During the 80s, an intoxicating subgenre of highlife was born in Benin City, the heart of Edo State (south-western Nigeria), with Sir Victor Uwaifo, adding synthesizers and electric guitars to contribute to this new genre of psychedelic infused Funk. This was the Edo Funk Explosion!
It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, [...]
#80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Highlife #Nigeria #SirVictorUwaifo #OldAfricanMusic
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Djeli Moussa Diawara – Haidara (remastered)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-haidara-remastered/
Here’s the full 2010 remastered version of Haidara, the Guinean korafola Djeli Moussa Diawara recorded in Abidjan in 1982 for his 1st album.
Read the stories about the album on Wikipedia. […]
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Abdullah Ibrahim – Water From An Ancient Well
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-water-ancient-well/
“Water From An Ancient Well” features the pianist/composer with a very strong septet. Such superior musicians as tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, altoist Carlos Ward, baritonist Charles Davis, and trombonist Dick Griffin are heard at their most creative and emotional on these eight Ibrahim originals. [...]
#80smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #Jazz #Madiba #Piano #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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Jo Tongo – Jangolo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jo-tongo-jangolo/
Our hero, Jo Tongo (born Joseph Ekambi Tongo Mpondo) was raised in Douala, Cameroon. In 1964 he headed off to Paris to begin Pharmaceutical studies.
Somewhere along the way the music in his soul eventually won out and he embarked on a life of music. In 1977, he produced and recorded his debut self titled […]
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Etoile de Dakar – Thiapathioly
https://amf.didiermary.fr/etoile-de-dakar-thiapathioly/
Etoile de Dakar Feat. Youssou N’Dour & El Hadji Faye
Etoile de Dakar – Vol. 2
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Hugh Masekela – Don’t Go Lose It Baby
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/
The original version of “Don’t Go Lose It Baby”, here in a remixed version, comes from Masekela’s Techno-Bush album in 1984.
Hugh Masekala and the Medu Art Ensemble offer via their album Techno-Bush an Afro-futurist vision of South Africa. Protesting through sound and dance, after returning [...]
#80smusic #FullAlbum #Mbaqanga #Remixed #SouthAfrica #Electro
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From Nubia to Cairo – Ali Hassan Kuban
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nubia-cairo-ali-hassan-kuban/
Ali Hassan Kuban is considered The Godfather of Nubian Soul. “From Nubia to Cairo” was first released in the 80s, and revisited in 2018 as “the first milestone in urban Nubian Pop”.
From a self-taught musician exploring his Nubian people’s musical roots to a professional, successfully leading his various bands into new, vibrant, international pop […]
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A quick selection of Brenda Fassie songs.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/brenda-fassie-songs/
In 1983, Brenda Fassie formed “Brenda and the Big Dudes” (with Blondie and Pappa Makhene), and that same year she had a breakthrough hit with “Weekend Special,” singing in the disco-flavored “bubblegum” [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #Disco #Documentary #Kwaito #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife
https://amf.didiermary.fr/electronic-highlife-ghana-special-2/
“Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93” is a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat #Electro
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