Mopao Swahili Jazz – Msewe Hybrid
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mopao-swahili-jazz-msewe-hybrid/
Mopao Swahili Jazz, founded by Emmanuel Abraham Mwandemelela aka Emma Mopao, is from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The band play original jazz songs blending beats and rhythms from various African music traditions. They released their first album Taswira (Reaction) in 2019.
Orchestra Baobab – Utru Horas (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestra-baobab-utru-horas-live/
Orchestra Baobab in a live version of the famous “Utru Horas” from their 1982 album “Pirates Choice.” Recorded at Festival du Bout du Monde, France, in August 2003. More info (in French).
Lura – Nos Diva (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lura-nos-diva/
Lura in a live tribute To Cesária Evora.
They appeared together on the album “Cesária Evora & …”, a compilation of duos with multiple artists, released in 2010 and covering multiple genres from AfroCuban to Morna and Son. […]
Newen Afrobeat & Seun Kuti – Zombie
https://amf.didiermary.fr/newen-afrobeat-seun-kuti-zombie/
A cover of Fela Kuti’s Zombie by Newen Afrobeat with Seun Kuti. In 2018, Newen Afrobeat returns to Nigeria to share with the Kuti family and participate in Felabration Lagos for the second time. A few months later, there is a new meeting between Seun and Newen Afrobeat, this time in Santiago de Chile on […]
Roforofo Jazz – Running the Way
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roforofo-jazz-running-way/
“Roforofo” means “muddy” in Yoruba. The 7 musicians composing Roforofo Jazz, a Parisian collective, mix Afrobeat, Jazz, Funk and Rap.
They were the first ever French band to play @ Felabration, in Lagos…
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Cremilda Medina – Nôs Morna
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cremilda-medina-tito-paris-nos-morna/
Cesária Évora‘s legacy is well and alive, with many young artists taking on morna & saudade…
Here’s “Nôs Morna” in 2018, winner of IPMA (International Portuguese Music Awards) 2019 Awards in the World Music Performance category.
Born in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde, Cremilda Medina is a songwriter and singer of […]
Osibisa - Africa We Go Go (live 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkgWNHltog
Not sure of the lineup...
African Classical Music Ensemble live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/african-classical-music-ensemble-live/
The African Classical Music Ensemble was set up to celebrate the distinct acoustic classical musical traditions of Africa, and to embody the last of the old code of griots.
The African Classical Music Ensemble is dedicated to preserving cultural legacies and the classical […]
Newen Afrobeat Feat. Seun Kuti – Opposite People (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/newen-afrobeat-seun-kuti-opposite-people/
Opposite People with Seun Kuti and Cheick Tidiane Seck on keyboard too… This is a Fela’s cover by the Chilean band/collective Newen Afrobeat.
Cover art by Fela Kuti’s historic designer Ghariokwu Lemi.
Beja Power!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/beja-power/
Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast.
During the Sudanese revolution a campaign was waged to erase Beja culture. A musician named Noori was driven by a cause to keep the culture alive.
A soundtrack of Sudan’s revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori […]
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
3 improvisations from my all-improv piano concert
#LiveMusic #PianoImprov
https://muz4now.com/2025/piano-freedom-pianoimprov-livemusic/
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Emi Aluta
Live session in Rio de Janeiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLiMys0Ddlg
"The track is a frenetic ode to the spirit of the struggle against bad political leadership."
From latest album ‘Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)’
https://amf.didiermary.fr/heavier-yet-seun-kuti/
Lucky Dube – I’ve Got You Babe (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lucky-dube-got-you-babe/
“I’ve Got You Babe” by Lucky Dube from his album “Slave” released in 1990.
The song takes a detour from his socially conscious music style to show off a more romantic side. He serenades his lover with sweet words of love and the happiness she’s brought into his life with lines such as “All the […]
Fela Kuti and Egypt 80 – Beasts Of No Nation (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-egypt-80-beasts-no-nation-live/
“Beasts of No Nation” a été produit par Wally Badarou. Fela Kuti commença à réfléchir à l’album pendant une détention pour infraction aux devises étrangères et termina la chanson à sa sortie de prison.
Il y accuse le gouvernement Nigérian et l’armée de diverses atteintes à l’égard des populations du pays. Il y évoque également [...]
Damily – Malay Nama
https://amf.didiermary.fr/damily-malay-nama/
Valimbilo, released in 2018, is an album by Damily, the Tsapiky Masters from Madagascar.
“Bilo” is a disease which strikes one’s mental health. Depression is what western societies call it. When one is diagnosed with “voany bilo”, a precise medical treatment is engaged and performed without doctors, nor medicine. To vanquish bilo, one has to […]
Hoba Hoba Spirit – El Caid Motorhead (2005)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hoba-hoba-spirit-el-caid-motorhead/
Hoba Hoba Spirit is a musical fusion band based in Casablanca, Morocco that was formed in 1998.
R.I.P Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, Motörhead frontman
From their album Blad Skizo released in 2005.
Cheny Wa Gune, King of Timbila!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cheny-wa-gune-king-timbila/
Cheny Wa Gune is the contemporary King of the Chopi Timbila!
I already posted some videos I shot @ Womex a few years ago…
Ali Farka Touré live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ali-farka-toure-live/
At least 3 extracts from various documentaries showing Ali Farka Touré live, filmed in the 80s. 3 songs are included: Yulli, Ketiné and Ai Du.
Ai Du is on the album Talking Timbuktu, recorded with Ry Cooder.
#AliFarkaToure #DesertBlues #LiveMusic #Mali #OldAfricanMusic
TICKETS! Get your tickets... https://actorschurch.org/whatson/critical-hits/
For the nerdiest concert coming up next month: Ready Singer One choir with the Geeky Beats Big Band! 🎺🎶
We'll be singing some video game/TV/movie faves, as long as it's suitably nerdy.
23/25 June, Covent Garden - I'll be performing Tues 23rd, hope to see you there!! Tell your friends:
#London #LondonEvents #liveMusic #singing #choralSinging #bigBand #videoGameMusic #filmMusic #soundtracks #geeky #nerdy #ReadySingerOne
Manu Dibango & Soul Makossa Gang (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-soul-makossa-gang/
Le Soul Makossa Gang était la formation favorite sur scène du célèbre multi-instrumentiste et compositeur Manu Dibango.
Dédicace à tous ceux qui ont eu la chance de le voir sur scène, comme ce fut le cas pour moi au Petit Journal Montparnasse […]
It’s not from Africa, it’s about it…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-gold-esperanza-spalding/
Black Gold by Esperanza Spalding (special guest: Algebra Blessett), from her album “Radio Music Society,” released for the first day of Black History Month in 2012.
To the press, she wrote “This song is singing to our African American heritage before slavery. Over the decades, so much of the strength in the African American community […]
Super Djata Band – Fadingna Kouma/Facia (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-djata-band-live-fadingna-kouma/
The Super Djata Band from Bamako, Mali, led by the late Zani Diabaté (on lead guitar), who died on January 4, 2011, from their 1984 concert in Angoulême, France.
On balafon Zani Diabaté’s late brother Bakari, and singing, the great (but unfortunately also late) Daouda ‘Flani’ Sangaré and Alou Fané, with Idrissa Magassa. Alou Fané […]
Super Mama Djombo – Sûr Di Nô Pubis
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-mama-djombo-suur-di-no-pubis/
“Sûr Di Nô Pubis” is from Super Mama Djombo‘s album “Na Cambança” at the end of the 70s.
The band was formed in the mid-1960s, at a Boy Scout camp, when the members were only children (the youngest was six years old)!
Djombo is the name of a spirit that many fighters appealed to for protection […]
Mwandishi Sextet Project
Herbie Hancock‘s three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the “Mwandishi” albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era (“Mwandishi” is Swahili for “writer”).
Back in the early 1970s when Jazz met Afrofuturism, Psychedelism and electronic experimentation. […]
