Orchestra Baobab – Pirates Choice
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestra-baobab-pirates-choice-full-album/
Réédité en 2001, puis en 2015 pour les 50 ans d’Orchestra Baobab, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir Pirates Choice, enregistré à Dakar en 1982. […]
Ebo Taylor – Palaver
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ebo-taylor-palaver/
“Palaver” is a long-lost, previously unreleased 1980 album from Ghanaian guitarist and songwriter Ebo Taylor.
“This was done with my touring band, pretty much the same guys as on the Essiebons records I was making back then,” Ebo Taylor says […]
Remembering Leonard Dembo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/remembering-leonard-dembo/
Death snatched the legendary artist Leonard Dembo when he was only 37, on April 9, 1996, leaving a rich discography.
"That man was talented. He taught me a lot about music. I worked with him from 1988 until his death in 1996. I was the youngest in the band when I joined Barura Express. He […]
Manu Dibango – Electric Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-electric-africa/
Released in 1985, Electric Africa is an album with Herbie Hancock, Wally Badarou & Mory Kante, produced by Bill Laswell. […]
#80smusic #AfroFunk #Cameroon #FullAlbum #Jazz #ManuDibango #AfroJazz #HerbieHancock
Harari – Party
https://amf.didiermary.fr/harari-party/
This single by Harari, “Party” (the 7″ release), entered the US Disco Top 100 in 1982.
Hama – Houmeissa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hama-houmeissa/
Nigerien composer Hama presents an album of traditional electronic desert folk songs, hovering somewhere between early 90s techno and synthwave. Nomadic herding ballads, ancient caravan songs, and ceremonial wedding chants are all re-imagined into pieces seemingly lifted from a Saharan 1980s sci-fi soundtrack or score to a Tuareg video game. With a deep love and […]
Freres Bouchenak - Salou Ala El Hadi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnrVTuy2Kk
Hamid, Omar, Mohamed and Reda, the Bouchnak brothers or Rai Knights, were raised in a family of artists from Oujda.
They won the first prize in the "Adoua El Madina" contest with their first song "Jennouni" recorded in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPEkkad02P4
Super Mama Djombo – Luta Kana Maina #1
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-mama-djombo-luta-kana-maina/
“Luta Kana Maina n°1” is from album “Na Cambança” by Super Mama Djombo at the end of the 70s.
Super Mama Djombo is a band from Guinea-Bissau who sing in Guinea-Bissau Creole. The band was formed in the mid-1960s, at a Boy Scout camp, when the members were only children (the youngest was six years […]
First Modern Taarab Vibes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/first-modern-taarab-vibes/
Black Star Musical Club was one of the classic Taarabu bands in Tanga, Tanzania. It was founded in the 1950s, and played a crucial role in establishing the modern Taarab sound.
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. It is influenced by […]
#70smusic #80smusic #Kenya #Taarab #Tanzania #OldAfricanMusic
K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cubanos-fiesta/
Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.
K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]
Maitre Gazonga – Jaloux Saboteurs
https://amf.didiermary.fr/maitre-gazonga-jaloux-saboteurs/
Jaloux Saboteurs par Maitre Gazonga est un classique…
J’ai (re)découvert que ce titre faisait partie de la bande originale du film “Black Mic-Mac” de Thomas Gillou avec Jacques Villeret et Isaac de Bankole (1986). Je me souviens que cette BOF m’avait marqué et que je l’ai cherchée longtemps…
On y retrouve Papa Wemba, Youssou N’dour, […]
Modern Africa (1984)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/modern-africa-1984/
From “Modern Africa” (BRR20) “Contemporary Brass, Woodwind, Rhythm and Percussion” by Teddy Osei, Mac Tontoh, Aaron Harry & Martin Luther Owusu in 1984, musicians forming the core of Osibisa.
Shams Dinn شمس دين
https://amf.didiermary.fr/shams-dinn/
Shams Dinn, ’80s hip‑hop and modern arab music pioneer on a compilation of his best songs, from hip-hop to raï and funk.
Shams Dinn (Ben Bouchta Mohammed) was born in Oudja, Morocco in the ‘60s. His father died before he was born, and he was raised by his grandfather, a Sufi ascetic who awoke […]
Paul Ndlovu – Tsakane!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-ndlovu-tsakane/
Before Shangaan Electro, there was Shangaan Disco in the 80s & 90s. It’s township pop music, just like Kwaito, but the difference is based on its ethnic origin, the Tsonga (Shangaan) language. Although the sound evolved and reached a larger audience, the ethnic name remained. […]
Eboni Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/eboni-band/
Motown meets West Africa. This self-titled 1980 debut album by Eboni Band features Motown session musicians, producer and arrangers.
Reinventing itself as a record for the ages, a tour-de-force of cross continental soul and funk, it features session musicians from Motown and Ivory Coast’s Eboni Records alongside Fred Wesley (James Brown/Parliament). It was produced by […]
Ismael Isaac & les Frères Keita – Nelson Mandela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ismael-isaac-freres-keita-nelson-mandela/
Anti-Apartheid reggae song from Côte d’Ivoire, from album “Liberté” released in 1986, by Ismael Isaac & les Frères Keita.
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.”
—Nelson Mandela
Zig Zag Band, Chigiyo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zig-zag-band-chigiyo/
Zig Zag Band, a band from Kwekwe in Zimbabwe, fused traditional Zimbabwean rhythms with reggae to produce a hybrid genre they called “Chigiyo,” based on a traditional dance from Chimanimani, in East Zimbabwe.
This was one of their biggest hits: “Makatukura” is a protest track against the rich and their corrupt accumulation of wealth. […]
Nigeria Special – Electronic Innovation
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nigeria-special-electronic-innovation/
The compilation of Nigerian music “Nigeria Special Volume 3: Electronic Innovation Meets Culture And Tradition 1978-93” chronicles a time when drum machines, synthesisers, imported pop, reggae, disco and soul collided with highlife, juju and cultural music. The late 70s saw a period of political turbulence and prompted change across [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #90smusic #Compilation #Nigeria #Electro
Philip Tabane – Malombo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-philip-tabane/
Philip Tabane (1934 – 2018) was a South African musician, vocalist, jazz guitarist and band leader, part of the group Malombo in the 60s.
Saturday Fever – Jivaro
https://amf.didiermary.fr/saturday-fever-jivaro/
Groupe sud-africain de musique disco et bubblegum, les quatre membres de Jivaro ont été actifs à la fin des années 1980. “Saturday Fever” est sorti en 1989.
"One of – if not the – strongest South African kwaito/bubblegum albums in existence, Jivaro’s 1989 masterpiece 'Saturday Fever,' the album features various heavy hitting tracks that perfectly […]
Empire Bakuba & Papy Tex – Livre d’or
https://amf.didiermary.fr/empire-bakuba-papy-tex-livre-or/
Empire Bakuba was founded in 1972 by Pepe Kalle, Papy Tex (Jean Dode Matolu) and Dilu Dilumona, and became an influential soukous band that formed in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo).
