Roforofo Fight - Fela Kuti [1972]

Afro-Funk-Jazz tour de force. Needs y brawd say more.


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oforofor

Cameroon Baka Pygmy Music - Various [1977]

Pejorative sobriquet notwithstanding, an entrancing polyphonic delight: work song, dance, lullaby and tunes whereby to potter around hut, hearth and rainforest. Dense, cyclical contrapuntal communal vocalising. Almost casually adept. Gamelan-like, sense a never quite revealed super-pattern shrouded in amaranthine repetition.

(Smile on Holy Warbles' tireless ethnomusicology)


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jengi

The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria: Various

Thanks to Edo over at Know Your Conjuror for these mighty platters of on the one uber-grooves.  Will get you n yer pals shimmying n swaying - guaranteed. 

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unity and faith

peace and progress

Tanzania: Gogo Ritual Music [2001]

Straight field recording of Wagogo people ritual music. Vocal driven: solo, choral, some a cappella, a few with rough and ready accompaniment. 


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go go

Kigali Y'Izahabu - The Good Ones [2010]

Back porch folk Kigali. Balm for troubled times. Unearthly harmonies, direct, and hugely endearing. Beautiful and enduring.

Buy. Portion of sales proceeds go to pukka Rwandan charities Stories For Hope and The Kigali Memorial Centre.

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try n buy

Apocalypse Across the Sky - The Master Musicians of Jajouka

Live document from 1991, with Bachir Attar at the helm. Massed ghaitas, percussion, call and response all making a righteous racket.

Jajouka perches above a long valley in the blue Djebala foothills of the Rif Mountains in northern Morocco. The music and secrets of Jajouka have been passed down through generations from father to son, by some accounts for as long as 1,300 years. Some writers have connected elements of Jajouka’s musical traditions to Ancient Greek and Phoenician ceremonies. Burroughs extravagantly dubbed the Master Musicians of Jajouka a “4000 year old rock band.”

Joyous.

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godstar

Zombie - Fela and Afrika 70

Eno:

There were three great beats in the '70s: Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, James Brown's funk and Klaus Dinger's NEU!-beat.

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observation is no crime