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...

As promised, here is African Divas Vol. 2 , originally posted last year as African Serenades Vol. 47b at Matsuli Music . I apologize for th...

As part of this blog's ongoing effort to bring to light obscure and hard-to-find recordings from Ethiopia , I present a 1992 cassette, M...

What is the deal with Moos, over at Global Groove ? Can he read my mind? As I noted here , I had wanted to post the LP Somo Somo , but Moos ...

This has been out a few days, so you may have seen it, but the latest Village Voice takes note of Likembe and several other African music ...

Guitarist Mose Se Sengo "Fan Fan" was a crucial member of Franco's Orchestre TPOK Jazz from 1967 to 1972. In that year he lef...

Note: This post was updated on September 20, 2008, to incorporate comments by reader/listener Iman . In response a to a request from reader/...

Today marks one year since Likembe first went online on August 9, 2007. One thing I've discovered in a year of blogging is that it'...

Our friend Aduna is back from Madagascar with un petit cadeau , "Tulear Market Mix," eleven nuggets of wailing vocals and fren...

I mentioned to someone recently that with two teenagers headed off to college soon I just can't afford to plop down $17-20 for a CD anym...