Joyeuses Fêtes ! Happy Holidays!
Bonane na Noel!
Avec le Seigneur Tabu Ley Rochereau !
https://www.didiermary.fr/bonane-na-noel-bonnes-fetes-happy-holidays/
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70smusic
The Trance of Seven Colors
https://amf.didiermary.fr/trance-seven-colors/
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
#70smusic #Gnawa #Jazz #Morocco #OldAfricanMusic #PharoahSanders
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Ngozi Family – Hold On
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ngozi-family-hold-on/
The song “Hold on” is part of “45,000 Volts”, originally released in 1977 by the Ngozi Family. It was a sharp cut, defining slice of Zamrock.
“Ngozi Family was one of the most prolific bands in Zambia at that time and rocketed to stardom in a period that is hailed as the golden age of […]
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The Chisa Years (1965-1975)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-chisa-years-1965-1975/
The Chisa Years: 1965–1975 (Rare and Unreleased) is a compilation album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
The album consists of 14 rare or forgotten tracks recorded by Stewart Levine and Hugh Masekela from 1965 to 1975 when they ran their own Chisa Records label. […]
#60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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The Funkees – Dancing Time
https://amf.didiermary.fr/funkees-dancing-time/
“The Funkees hit London in 1973 as the tightest, funkiest and most audacious bands to come out of Africa. Hardened by endless touring and an unrelenting battle with BLO and Monomono to be the best band in Nigeria, they were in prime musical condition, ready to finally lay down their first album. The result was […]
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Yoruba Women Of The Drum
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yoruba-women-drum/
Not a lot of information on this album from 1995 with Madam Comfort Omoge and Madam Mujidat Ogunfala, called ”Yoruba Women Of The Drum”. It’s best to listen to it…
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music […]
#70smusic #Compilation #Drums #FullAlbum #LiveMusic #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic
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Super Mama Djombo – Sûr Di Nô Pubis
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-mama-djombo-suur-di-no-pubis/
“Sûr Di Nô Pubis” is from Super Mama Djombo‘s album “Na Cambança” at the end of the 70s.
The band was formed in the mid-1960s, at a Boy Scout camp, when the members were only children (the youngest was six years old)!
Djombo is the name of a spirit that many fighters appealed to for protection […]
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Fela Kuti – Upside Down
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-upside-down/
From the LP “Upside Down” released in 1976 (CD release 1997).
Sandra, the woman who stood by Fela and also brought him in contact with the Black Panther during his transformation years in the United States, came back to visit a highly popular and successful Fela in Nigeria in 1976.
The track was written by […]
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Harry Mosco – For You Specially
https://amf.didiermary.fr/harry-mosco-funkees-specially/
The late Harry Mosco was the lead vocalist for legendary 1970s Nigerian afro-funk band The Funkees.
After unsuccessfully moving back to London, the group disbanded (after just four years) and Mosco released his first solo EP Specially For You in 1977.
At the time it received no commercial success. But it has been reissued.
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Psychedelic Classics 3: Love’s a Real Thing
https://amf.didiermary.fr/psychedelic-classics-3-loves-a-real-thing/
The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
These twelve astonishing tracks are drawn from a broad spectrum of early 70s West African psychedelic [...]
#70smusic #Compilation #ManuDibango #Psychedelic #OldAfricanMusic
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The Free Music
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-free-music/
“The Free Music” est un album qui reprend neuf morceaux du groupe éponyme formé par l’artiste libyen Najib Al Housh, soigneusement choisis au sein de leur discographie de dix albums autoproduits à partir des années 1970, offrant un mélange unique entre funk, disco, soul et reggae…
Plus surprenante encore, cette reprise de "Stayin' Alive" des Bee Gees.
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Ivory Coast Soul (Vol. 1 & 2)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ivory-coast-soul/
Ivory Coast Soul – Afro Funk From Abidjan From 1972 To 1982 is a compilation released in 2010 on 2 vinyl LPs.
Ivory Coast Soul Volume 2 was released in 2012 and covers music produced […]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #CoteDIvoire #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic
Edited 152d ago
Can’t You Hear Me? (70’s African Nuggets & Garage Rock From Nigeria, Zambia And Zimbabwe) is a compilation released in 2016 as a 2 LP vinyl.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cant-you-hear-me/
#70smusic #Compilation #Nigeria #Psychedelic #Zambia #Zimbabwe #OldAfricanMusic
Edited 152d ago
Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-walias-band/
The first full length album by The Walias Band & Hailu Mergia, recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label. At Zula Club he and his mates formed Walias Band and did something no other band in Ethiopian nightclub history had done: they started buying their own musical instruments. Until then the club […]
Bobo Yéyé – Belle Epoque in Upper Volta
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bobo-yeye-belle-epoque-in-upper-volta/
Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta is a compilation available as a 3-disc, 37-song box set by archival label Numero Group.
Burkina Faso was called The Republic of Upper Volta. Then came Thomas Sankara. During this period of cultural revolution, in the ’60s and ’70s, the nation exploded with new bands and sounds, […]
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From the LP I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) released in 1979.
Fela and his political party Movement Of The People are banned from contesting Nigeria’s presidential election. Fela forms a new Afrika 70 and plays a comeback concert at the University of Ife. He also defies police opposition and opens a new Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, […]
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-international-thief-itt/
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Fela Kuti – Gentleman (LP)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-gentleman-lp/
1973’s “Gentleman” is the 7th in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues.
Like Fela’s other early 70’s releases, he used each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism. Gentleman is the […]
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Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi – Sungu Lubuka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/petelo-vicka-et-son-nzazi-sungu-lubuka/
En septembre 1974, le festival “Zaïre 74” avait fait monter la pression sur toute une génération de musiciens locaux, en les poussant à injecter une bonne dose de Funk dans la Rumba congolaise.
Dans la compilation Congo Funk!, on retrouve des groupes de Kinshasa et Brazzaville, tels que l’Orchestre OK Jazz et Les Bantous de [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Congo #Rumba #OldAfricanMusic
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Fela Kuti – Mr Follow Follow
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-mr-follow-follow/
Fela Kuti’s Mr Follow Follow was released in 1976/77 on the Zombie album.
The song is about those who allow themselves to be led blindly by others.
“…if you dey follow them book! Na inside cupboard you go quench!… Cockroach dey! Rat dey!… Na inside darkness you go dey! If you have to follow them books, […]
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Tunji Oyelana - A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLsfENQU2UY
"Equal parts singer-songwriter, actor, bandleader, dramatist, comedian and academic, Oyelana elevated the realm of pop music by infusing it with the poetic storytelling of Yoruba folklore."
The story of Zamrock
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-zamrock/
Discover the story of Zamrock, a music genre born in 1970s Zambia out of influences from James Brown’s funk and Jimi Hendrix’s acid guitar.
Seminal Zamrock groups such as Witch, Amanaz, 5 Revolutions, Ricky Banda, Ngozi Family, Oscillations, Fireballs, and Crossbones.
#70smusic #Documentary #Rock #Zambia #Zamrock #OldAfricanMusic
Edited 148d ago
Spirits Rejoice – Electric Chicken
https://amf.didiermary.fr/spirits-rejoice-electric-chicken/
Spirits Rejoice drew together some of South Africa’s most abundantly talented and forward-thinking jazz players and created a complex and challenging jazz fusion that shifted the terms of South Africa’s engagement with jazz towards new music being made by pioneers such as Chick Corea, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and others. [...]
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Yehouessi Leopold & T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo: Volume 4
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yehouessi-leopold-poly-rythmo/
The T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou was formed in 1966. Their output has been extremely prolific numbering upwards of 50 LPs and a hundred 45s. Here’s an album with Yehouessi Leopold (drummer) from 1978, that was rereleased in 2021.
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Douala by Night
https://amf.didiermary.fr/douala-by-night/
“Douala by Night” est un excellent AfroJazzFunk de la fin des années 70, dernière piste de l’album “J.M. Tim & Foty” de Jean Marie Tiam (aka Tim) et Maurice Foty (décédé en 2011). L’album est paru en 1977. […]
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Next Stop Soweto
https://amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-soweto-compilations/
“Next Stop Soweto” is a compilation series, to remember an era of South Africa’s musical history where such genres as Funk and Soul were being played by bands even as apartheid firmly gripped the country’s music culture.
Volume 1 explores the vibrant energy of the township jive sound, whilst Volumes 2 and 3 cover [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Compilation #Jazz #Mbaqanga #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Edited 59d ago