Over the years there have been efforts to adapt African music to Western "classical" instrumentation and forms. One of the countr...

If you like the music of Somalia's Iftin and Dur Dur , featured some time ago in this space, let me direct your attention to Andreas We...

In 1971, after several years of musical experimentation following the breakup of the super-group Cream , British drummer Ginger Baker made ...

Here's another Fela rarity for your musical enjoyment: The Afrodisia disc I Go Shout Plenty!! (DWAPS 2251), released in 1986 but appa...

By way of Undercover Black Man I learn that Knitting Factory Records intends to remaster and reissue the "entire catalog" of Nig...

For all I know, recordings like Simon Sene's Magal (Afrique Dioundioung/KSF) could be as common as dirt in Senegal, so the title of this...

How to explain the dire state of the Nigerian music scene? Judging by what's being spun at parties in Milwaukee these days, it's be...

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...

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...

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. ...