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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A Couple of Rochereaus

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Just about everyone in the United States who started collecting African music in the 1970s and '80s is familiar with the producti...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

More Coastal Sounds From Kenya?

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Here's an LP that my old friend Steve Kamuiru brought me from Kenya back in the early '90s. I have been unable to find out any...
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Friday, September 7, 2018

Fifty Years of Xalam

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About ten years ago I devoted a post to the Senegalese jazz/funk group Xalam, then celebrating their fortieth anniversary. It seems th...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

Pat Thomas's False Lover

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I posted four tracks from Pat Thomas's 1974 album False Lover (Gapophone GAPO 02) almost ten years ago . Recently a reader asked th...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Between Man and Money

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I've been posting some of the many Hausa cassettes from northern Nigeria in my collection with a bit of anxiety. It's not a gen...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

"Expensive" Jùjú

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Olubi Taiwo, under his stage name "Expensive Olubi," was a midlevel jùjú star in '70s Nigeria. Other than that, I can...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Bird of Sankaran

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At first I thought the title of today's featured recording, L'Oiseau de Sankara (BGDA 91007, 1992), was a tribute to the late ...
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

Four "Cultural" Stars From Ethiopia

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In Ethiopia, Ambassel Music and Video Shop perservered throughout the bitter '70s and '80s - through political repression, cu...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Ghana Highlife - The London Connection

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Over the last few months I've been posting a disproportionate amount of sweet Ghana highlife from the '80s. I just happened t...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Little Orphan of Jos

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Together with Barmani Mai Coge and Alhaji Maman Shata , Dan Maraya Jos was a leading exemplar of the traditional music of the Hausa p...
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