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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

The Morning Star Group

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Here's a mysterious Nigerian album, Idanre Makin (Idanre Makin EILP 002) I got not too long ago - by a Yoruba vocal/percussion grou...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Jack of All Trades, Master of All

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Footballer, guitarist and composer of many of the most memorable songs in Congolese music, Mayaula Mayoni (1946-2010) has often been ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2019

An Èwi Deep Dive with Lanrewaju Adepọju

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Even if I weren't already a huge fan of Lanrewaju Adepọju, I would have bought this album for the cover art alone! Aláfọwósowópó...
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Friday, October 11, 2019

Raji Owonikoko's "Kwara System"

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I just came into possession of a raft of great Yoruba recordings from Nigeria - lots of jùjú, àpàlà fújì, wákà, èwi, what have you - ...
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Saturday, October 5, 2019

Master of the Ngurumi and the Biram

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I present today four cassettes by Malam Maman Barkah, the Niger Republic's acclaimed master of two traditional instruments of tha...
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Sunday, September 15, 2019

The Queen of Wassoulou

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Kudos to The Lost Maestros for posting this wonderful video (from World Service 's YouTube channel) of the Malian diva Coumba Sidib...
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Friday, September 6, 2019

An Overlooked Obey Gem

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I thought I had all of Ebenezer Obey's great LPs from the '80s, until I came across this gem in Dusty Groove in Chicago a few...
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Saturday, August 31, 2019

"Live" at the Kilimanjaro

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An often-overlooked item in the discography of Les Quatre Etoiles , 1988's Four Stars at the Kilimanjaro (Kilimanjaro International...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Ripoff Alert!

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For some time now, a dubious operation called "Kipepeo Publishing," apparently based in Kenya, has been peddling on Amazon ...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

The Ladies of Missema, and Pamelo Mounk'a too!

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The all-female Gabonese choral group Missema was founded in the 1970s, apparently with some official sponsorship, with the purpose of p...
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