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Gasper Lawal – Ajomasé

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“Ajomasé,” originally released in 1980 on his own label CAP, is the groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal.
Mixing traditional Nigerian percussions, Rock & Jazz, he starts working on his own compositions in 1976, in his spare time or when he can access a studio, with the best musicians available [...]

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Uselu Motor Park

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Edo Funk / Benin City, anyone?

Here’s “Uselu Motor Park” by the Drivers Union Dance Band & Osaro Nomayo, released in 1978. The album blends highlife rhythms with local influences, creating a lively and engaging musical experience.

David Osaro Nomayo (1956-2002), the lead figure in the band, contributes to its distinct sound and success in […]

#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Super Negro Bantous

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Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

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Obo Addy (Oboade)

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Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer. He learned drumming at a very early age. He and his brothers drummed while his mother and sisters sang as his father, a priest and medicine man of the Ga people of southern Ghana, performed rituals.
When Addy was six, he […]

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IzangoMa – Ngo Ma

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IzangoMa is a 15-piece ensemble from Pretoria, South Africa, led by vocalist and guitarist Sibusile Xaba with DJ/producer AshK.
Ngo Ma is their first release in 2023.

The fifteen-piece kaleidoscopic ensemble IzangoMa might only be releasing its debut offering on the esteemed UK-based label Brownswood Recording this coming Northern Hemisphere Spring, [...]

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Les Tambours de Brazza

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Le magnifique son des Tambours de Brazza sur l’album “Congo Drums” en 1996.

Quatorze percussionnistes congolais créent un fabuleux voyage à travers les rites les plus profonds de l’Afrique centrale. Un enregistrement remarquable ! Créé en 1991 sous la direction artistique d’Émile Biayenda, le groupe allie tradition et modernité, offrant des rythmes de toute […]

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Marijata – No Condition Is Permanent

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Marijata was a group made up of three members – Kofi ‘Electric’ Addison on drums, Bob Fischian on organ and Nat Osmansu on guitar, hailing from Ghana. ‘This Is Marijata’ is the groups first LP; released originally on the Gapophone label – it is pure, rootsy, raw, driving African funk music of the highest order, […]

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Débruit & Alsarah – Aljawal (الجوال)

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Aljawal (The Traveller) is a modern, haunting take on Sudanese music heard through the sonic lens of French artist & producer, Débruit and the poetic, ethereal lyrics and melodies of Sudanese-born singer Alsarah.

Débruit is a musical explorer who imagines alternate worlds and the way they’d sound. He plays with time and disparate sounds [...]

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Kokoroko – Could We Be More

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“Could We Be More” is an expansive and ambitious album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.
Each song possesses the energy which so naturally underpins the heartbeat of Kokoroko’s identity – deftly moving through afrobeat, highlife, soul, and funk across the album’s 15 tracks and taking inspiration from a plethora of other influences from within […]

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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

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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto

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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, mbaqanga, […]

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Bankolo Miziki – Masters of Congolese Rumba

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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. [...]

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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. […]

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Doing It In Lagos

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Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980’s Nigeria

#80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #FullAlbum #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

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Eboni Band

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Motown meets West Africa.

This self-titled 1980 debut album by Eboni Band features Motown session musicians, producer and arrangers.

Reinventing itself as a record for the ages, a tour-de-force of cross continental soul and funk, it features session musicians from Motown and Ivory Coast’s Eboni Records alongside Fred Wesley (James Brown/Parliament). It was produced by […]

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Tony Allen – The Source

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Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.

Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70.
In 2017, he released 2 albums via Blue Note, a tribute EP to Art Blakey and […]

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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 […]

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Hailu Mergia, the Ethiopian one-man-band extraordinaire

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Hailu Mergia made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings. Hailu Mergia’s beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian songs via analog synth, electric piano and accordion has been remastered.

In 1985, master accordionist and veteran bandleader, arranger and keyboardist released the [...]

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Baba Bhy-Gao Dombia – Bintou

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Bhy-Gao fut un énorme succès dans son pays, avant de quitter la Centrafrique pour l'Afrique de l'ouest, puis la France aux débuts des années 80.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Fela Kuti – Fear Not For Man

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Fear Not For Man (1977) was written in the heat of Fela’s conflict with the military. The title track is a provocation expressing Fela’s lack of fear in the face of the authoritarian regime’s brutality; no matter how hard they beat him, they would never break him. This is made even more explicit on the […]

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Fela Kuti – Gentleman (LP)

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1973’s “Gentleman” is the 7th in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues.

Like Fela’s other early 70’s releases, he used each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism. Gentleman is the […]

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Space Jungle Luv – Oneness of Juju

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“Space Jungle Luv” is a classic 1976 album by Oneness of Juju.

When bandleader James “Plunky” Branch created Oneness Of Juju in 1975, he had spent five years working on both the West and East coasts of the U.S. The group’s previous incarnation, Juju, had become a fixture within New York’s avant-garde jazz scene. […]

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Musi O Tunya – Wings of Africa

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Musi O Tunya emerged in Zambia in 1972, during the rise of Zamrock. Among the founders was guitarist and singer Rikki Ililonga who went solo after the recording of the album “Wings of Africa” in Kenya in 1975.

More than other Zambian musicians of that time, the band combined deep local musical traditions and rhythms […]

#70sMusic #Zambia #Zamrock #Kenya #Psychedelic #AltRock #FullAlbum

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