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Monday, September 28, 2009

Igbo Garage Bands

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Sad as it is for me to report, I think the Igbo highlife sound, at least as we have known it, is dead and buried, the great stylists - Osade...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Scooped Again!

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As you may know, I've periodically been posting classic and hard-to-find music from Ethiopia here. For some time, I've wanted to m...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

From Congo to Kenya Pt. 2

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As a follow-up to my earlier post From Congo to Kenya Pt. 1 , here are some melodies courtesy of the Congolese diaspora in East Africa. ...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Mental Health Break

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Courtesy of Lucas Silva:
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Taking It Easy (Well, Not Really)

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I've been feeling bad about not being able to blog recently, but I see some of my fellow African music blogmeisters have also been slack...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Man Behind the Music

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One of the fringe benefits of doing this blog is that I occasionally hear from the musicians I write about, and their relatives. Thursda...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Once More on Rex Lawson & Biafra

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Once again our friend Rainer has come through with an exceedingly rare artifact from the golden age of Nigerian highlife music, in this ca...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Kasule

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Ugandan singer/guitarist Sammy Kasule is present on many Kenyan recordings made during the 1980s. He was a member of Frantal Tabu's Orch...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

From Congo to Kenya Pt. 1

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Have you seen Alastair Johnston's website Muzikifan ? It's a must-go-to destination for anyone who's interested in African m...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hailing Biafra

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Note: This post was updated on October 4, 2009. My post "Divided Loyalties" inspired an anonymous reader to make available an in...
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