Some years ago I posted the LP Pre-Festival Lagos 77 , featuring tracks from a number of Guinean orchestras who were in competition to ...

At first I thought the title of today's featured recording, L'Oiseau de Sankara (BGDA 91007, 1992), was a tribute to the late ...

Here's another recording that was featured not too long ago on another site - in this case Mangue Music , which posted it on Janua...

From Independence in 1958 until the death of dictator Sekou Touré in 1984, there was only one record company in Guinea, the legendary S...

With the kids back in school and monopolizing the computer, and me swamped under a ton of overtime, I just haven't been able to give thi...

Contrary to the impression you might get from the title of this post, this one is not about Nigerian music (but I promise I'll be putt...