Whoa! I just realized today is Halloween, and to mark the occasion, here's the only thing I could come up with that approaches being an ...

Back in the '80s Ethiopian music was extremely hard to come by outside of Ethiopia. Mahmoud Ahmed's brilliant Ere Mela Mela was r...

No sooner had I mentioned that I was lacking two of Nelly Uchendu's legendary recordings, Love Nwantinti (Homzy HCE 005, 1976) and Mam...

Note: This post was updated and corrected on January 4, 2009. Back in the early '90s I got it into my head that I would like to become ...

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...