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BEKONO, ROGER - ROGER BEKONORoger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the intensity of the Bikutsi style. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in ... read more » |
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BEKONO, ROGER - ROGER BEKONORoger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the intensity of the Bikutsi style. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in ... read more » |
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BEKONO, ROGER - ROGER BEKONORoger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the intensity of the Bikutsi style. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in ... read more » |
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BOLA - VOLUME 7Bola's bold fury stems from the kologo (a two-stringed lute with a calabash gourd resonator) and Frafra language vocals, emitted in raspy bursts. Although he employs a traditional instrument and the age-old mode of griot story-telling, Bola embraces elements of ... read more » |
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BOLA - VOLUME 7 (2LP)Vinyl issue. Bola's bold fury stems from the kologo (a two-stringed lute with a calabash gourd resonator) and Frafra language vocals, emitted in raspy bursts. Although he employs a traditional instrument and the age-old mode of griot story-telling, Bola embraces elements of ... read more » |
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DIOP, ABY NGANA - LIITALReissue on CD of Aby Ngana Diop's only album 'Liital'! Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. Taasu is a Wolof-language poetic style, usually performed by women griots over frenetic drum patterns, with an aggressive verbal flow ... read more » |
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DIOP, ABY NGANA - LIITALRepress of Aby Ngana Diop's only album 'Liital'! Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. Taasu is a Wolof-language poetic style, usually performed by women griots over frenetic drum patterns, with an aggressive verbal flow ... read more » |
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DJ BLACK LOW - IMPUMELELODJ Black Low, a Pretoria, South Africa born and based DJ and producer, combines Amapiano with new ways of expressing this local-turned-global style of dance music. In DJ Black Low's musical imagination, the songs manage to smoothly vacillate between dreamy and firmly ... read more » |
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DJ BLACK LOW - UWAMIDJ Black Low's debut album, 'Uwami', shows an artist showcasing a broad range of styles. It's the producer's attempt to both introduce himself to a wide audience and stamp a recognizable sound. Influenced by the pervasive amapiano style, which borrows from a diverse palette ... read more » |
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DJ BLACK LOW - UWAMIDJ Black Low's debut album, 'Uwami', shows an artist showcasing a broad range of styles. It's the producer's attempt to both introduce himself to a wide audience and stamp a recognizable sound. Influenced by the pervasive amapiano style, which borrows from a diverse palette ... read more » |
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DJ KATAPILA - AROODJ Katapila's 'Aroo' EP is the 2018 addition to the iconoclastic producer's catalog of fast-paced, pan-West African-influenced dance music. |
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DJ KATAPILA - TROTRODJ Katapila creates traditional Ga music using electronic sounds instead of live percussion, resulting in his own kind of house music. In the context of Ghana's pop music landscape, Katapila's music is singular. The uptempo, bass-heavy, Roland 808-rooted sounds echo early ... read more » |
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DJ KATAPILA - TROTRO (+ BONUS TRACKS)Two of the tracks collected here, never before on wax, demonstrate a wild combination of breakneck rhythms steeped in his native Ga traditional dances. |
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DOUMBIA, NAHAWA - LA GRANDE CANTATRICE MALIENNE, VOL. 1Awesome Tapes From Africa's reissue of Nahawa Doumbia's debut recording 'La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1', is building on the success of the label's first-ever reissue back in 2011, Doumbia's 'La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 3'. This seminal classic, which is still ... read more » |
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DOUMBIA, NAHAWA - LA GRANDE CANTATRICE MALIENNE, VOL. 1Awesome Tapes From Africa's reissue of Nahawa Doumbia's debut recording 'La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1', is building on the success of the label's first-ever reissue back in 2011, Doumbia's 'La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 3'. This seminal classic, which is still ... read more » |
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DOUMBIA, NAHAWA - LA GRANDE CANTATRICE MALIENNE, VOL. 3This early recording -made in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1982- captures the dualities inherent in Doumbia's music from early on: a stripped down, raw backdrop supported by warm sonics; feminist expressions of social issues imparted through stark refrains. |
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DOUMBIA, NAHAWA - LA GRANDE CANTATRICE MALIENNE, VOL. 3This early recording -made in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1982- captures the dualities inherent in Doumbia's music from early on: a stripped down, raw backdrop supported by warm sonics; feminist expressions of social issues imparted through stark refrains. |
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DRAKUS, GIBRALTAR - HOMMAGE A ZANZIBARBy the early 1990's, Les Tetes Brûlées from Cameroon were indisputably the most famous and influential artists in bikutsi, due to their innovative guitarist Théodore Zanzibar Epeme. Following their first European tour in 1987, the band had their ... read more » |
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DRAKUS, GIBRALTAR - HOMMAGE A ZANZIBARBy the early 1990's, Les Tetes Brûlées from Cameroon were indisputably the most famous and influential artists in bikutsi, due to their innovative guitarist Théodore Zanzibar Epeme. Following their first European tour in 1987, the band had their ... read more » |
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DRAKUS, GIBRALTAR - HOMMAGE A ZANZIBARBy the early 1990's, Les Tetes Brûlées from Cameroon were indisputably the most famous and influential artists in bikutsi, due to their innovative guitarist Théodore Zanzibar Epeme. Following their first European tour in 1987, the band had their ... read more » |
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DUR-DUR BAND - VOLUME 5Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980's, during a time when Somalia's contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant. Seeking inspiration outside the impressive array of Somali traditional music that was encouraged at the time, everyone from ... read more » |
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DUR-DUR BAND - VOLUME 5Reissue of the 1987 cassette release from Mogadishu's Dur-Dur Band. Dur-Dur Band were one of the leaders of Mogadishu's musical community, fusing elements of traditional Somali music with Western jazz and pop vibes and adding in a dash of Middle "Eastern flava". |
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GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDESAwalom completed 'Desdes' in 2007, not long before he departed Eritrea. Because Awalom left after the recording, he never received any money for cassette and CD sales. But he also didn't get to find out how much of an impact the songs have had locally. His songs appear to ... read more » |
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GEBREMARIAM, AWALOM - DESDES (2LP)Awalom completed 'Desdes' in 2007, not long before he departed Eritrea. Because Awalom left after the recording, he never received any money for cassette and CD sales. But he also didn't get to find out how much of an impact the songs have had locally. His songs appear to ... read more » |
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KAK, ATA - DAA NYINAA/BOME NNWOMOne of the greatest left-field dance floor jammers of all time, now available on 12-inch single for the first time. A joyously idiosyncratic balancing act of highlife, R&B, rap and house music, quietly released in 1994. The B-side features a minimalist electronic ... read more » |
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