Rail Band‘Soundiata’ Belle Epoque Volume 12007 Sterns Music (STCD 3033-34) CD101 Soundiata (L’Exil) Feat. Mory 27:50 02 Maliyo Feat. Lanfia Diabate 06:40 03 Sunjata Feat. Salif Keita 14:50 04 Armee Mali 04:22 CD201 Duga (Bambara Version) Feat. M 08:00 02 Mali Cebalenw Feat. Salif Keit 06:35 03 Armee Malienne Feat. Mory Kant 04:23 04 Fankante…
Hamza El Din“Music of Nubia”1964 Vanguard Records (VMD164) 1. Fegir Nedan :: Call To Worship 2. Desse Barama :: Peace 3. Aiga Denos Ailanga :: Give Back My Heart 4. Hoi to Irkil Fagiu :: The Message Bearer 5. Kuto Fa Pattaroni :: Children’s Songs 6. Shahadag Og :: Believe! 7. Nabra :: Raw Gold…
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band Take One (1974-79) Analog Africa No.2 2006, Alula Records (ALU 2002) What a thing of beauty this disc is! Africa during the 1960s witnessed a host of incredible bands that came to prominence playing their music in the dim afterthoughts of colonialism, the sweat and smoke-filled corners of leisure found in…
Hugh Masekela and the Union of South Africa Originally released on CHISA records (Chisa 808) This reissued, Motown / MoJazz (31453-0329-2) from 1994 01 – Goin’ Back to New Orleans (5:07) (Hugh Masekela) 02 – Ade (3:47) (Caiphus Semenya) 03 – To Get Ourselves Together (2:52) (Hugh Masekela) 04 – Johannesburg Hi-Lite Jive (3:57) (Eric…
Mulatu Astatke“Mulatu Steps Ahead”Released March 25, 2010Strut Records (056CD) 1. Radcliffe 2. Green Africa 3. Way To Nice, The 4. Assosa 5. I Faram Gami I Faram 6. Mulatu’s Mood 7. Ethio Blues 8. Boogaloo 9. Motherland I enjoyed last year’s collaboration between Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (called, unimaginatively, Inspiration Information Volume 3, a…
I plan to share some African music NOT from Nigeria in the next week or so, but until then a Fela album wouldn’t hurt. There’s nothing rare or arcane about the man’s music at this point of the digital age. Nowadays you can find his work everywhere. But there was a time when — where…
