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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Coastal Sounds From Kenya

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I think the Pressmen Band, described as "teen sensations" in their heyday, are still extant and catering to the tourist tra...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Sounds of Soweto

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There was growing interest in South African music during the 1980s. The initial impetus came from the Soweto uprising of 1976 and the s...
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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Return to Ihiagwa-Owerri

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It's about time we returned to Ihiagwa, just outside of Owerri, capital of Imo State, Nigeria and home of the Obi Wuru Otu Dance Gro...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Jùjú Music in the '90s

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I've been collecting Nigerian music since the 1970s, but never actually made it to the country until 1994 and 1995. By then it was...
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Thursday, February 8, 2018

A Mystery

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The cassette Wika Ô Ma (ALPHA 003, 1992), by N'Gosséré Ballo, is the kind of down-home traditional music that is found througho...
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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Ethereal Sounds

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Nwamara (Tradition TRAD 001, 1984), by the Nkelebe Brothers, is like no other recording of Igbo music I have ever heard. I don't k...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

More Hot Dance Music from Côte d'Ivoire

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I've been on a tear lately digitizing Ivorian cassettes from the early '90s. A few days ago we heard Ze by Gueatan System , a...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Yacouba Soukous from Ivory Coast

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A track from Ivory Coast's Gueatan System was featured on the 1993 release Super Guitar Soukous (Hemisphere 7243 8 28188), a compi...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Tigrinya Sounds

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Here's an appropriate followup to our last post of Ethiopian "ethnic" music:  3tä Weräyat Naye Tegriña Däräfeti Behe...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Twelve "Ethnic" Songs from Ethiopia

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Ethiopia in the popular mind is associated with the Amhara people, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the distinctive Ge'ez, or E...
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