Danish instrumental sextet Sunbörn join forces with acclaimed Italian producer/DJ Clap! Clap! for a boundary-blurring, vibrant celebration of global culture and sonic fusion.
Blending Afrobeat, Middle Eastern textures, jazz harmonies, and electronic dance music, the project weaves a high-energy soundscape of hypnotic grooves and soaring melodies.
https://sunbrnmeetsclapclap.bandcamp.com/album/earth-is-begging
Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra – Witam, witam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-sDIXEVD8
Fela, Music & Revolution
https://amf.didiermary.fr/qotd-fela-kuti-music-revolution/
In Africa, music cannot be for enjoyment.
Music has to be for revolution.
Fela Kuti
Femi Kuti – Journey Through Life
https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-journey-through-life/
After Legacy+ with his son Made in 2021, and a single last November, Femi Kuti is back with a self-produced new album “Journey Through Life” (to be released on 4/25/25).
Politics Don Expose Them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjEJsKrpIgM
Femi Kuti – One People One World
https://amf.didiermary.fr/one-people-one-world-femi-kuti/
“One People One World” est un album de Femi Kuti sorti en février 2018.
"Femi Kuti est le cœur et l’âme de l’Afrobeat moderne.
Créé par Fela, l’Afrobeat a poussé plusieurs générations de musiciens à utiliser, au Nigeria et dans le monde, la musique comme arme pour se battre pour la justice et la liberté. […]"
If you like podcasts, here's one for you:
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man podcast review — epic portrait of the Afrobeat pioneer
Wide-ranging new series explores the Nigerian musician’s life, loves and rebel politics
https://www.ft.com/content/2737c238-9bea-4e2e-a4e1-7d8f943ebd99
Fela Kuti – Open and Close (LP – 1971)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-open-and-close-lp-1971/
Fela’s Afrobeat song called Open & Close – a dance choreography with a lot of African vitality. […]
Oluko Imo – Were Oju Le
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oluko-imo-were-oju-le/
Caribbean Afrobeat? Oluko Imo, a multi-instrumentalist from Trinidad and Tobago, leader of the Black Truth Rhythm Band, settled in New York in the 1980s. It was during this period that he recorded “Were Oju Le” (The Eyes Are Getting Red) with the genre’s legend, Fela Kuti and his son Femi.
This nearly nine-minute track, a […]
Listen to the Master: Fela Kuti
https://amf.didiermary.fr/listen-to-the-master-afrobeat-fela-kuti/
Listen to the Master: a compilation of Afrobeat’s Maverick founder Fela Kuti in 2013 on a carefully curated collection of seminal Classics, “The Best Of The Black President 2“.
Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti passed away in 1997 but his legacy lives on, thanks to his still relevant, forthright political views and […]
Rocky Dawuni – African Thriller
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rocky-dawuni-african-thriller/
Extraits de l’album “Branches of the Same Tree” de Rocky Dawuni sorti en 2015.
“Performing his self-described ‘Afro-Roots’ sound, a fusion of reggae and Afrobeat groove, few artists have a more positive vibe than Rocky. His show is an incandescent Afro-Roots dance party.”
– LA Weekly
From the vault: 2019
Femi Kuti on the importance of protest music: "There will always be a fight, so that’s why it’s always important for music and the arts to be at the forefront of fighting this… If we don’t have our voices in the forefront of suppressing evil, then evil prevails.”
Tony Allen – The Source
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tony-allen-source/
Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70.
In 2017, he released 2 albums via Blue Note, a tribute EP to Art Blakey and […]
#FullAlbum #Jazz #Nigeria #TonyAllen #AfroJazz #Afrobeat #Blaugust
Seun Kuti & Egypt80 - Stand Well Well (Grand Stand Version) feat. POS of De La Soul
New album! Post to come on AMF...
"Journey Through Life" out April 25, 2025.
Femi Kuti - After 24 Years (Official Visualiser)
https://youtu.be/elSES_Yn__U
The project’s second single offers a critical look at Nigeria’s democracy “After 24 Years.”
Afro Super-Feelings led by Segun Okeji
https://amf.didiermary.fr/afro-super-feelings-segun-okeji/
Afrobeat Disco/Funk from the vault… A 2-track LP Afro Super-Feelings Led By Segun Okeji released in 1970.
This is an album comprised of two super-rare Afrobeat disco/funk tracks from Lagos by the band Afro Super-Feelings, led the by artist/musician Segun Okeji.
Segun Okeji was the tenor sax player in Fela Kuti‘s Koola Lobitos band […]
Baloji – Buy Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orchestre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/
“Buy Africa” is a cover of Fela Kuti’s song by Baloji & L’Orchestre de la Katuba, Feat. Kuku for Red Hot + Fela, the tribute album released in 2013.
To understand where Fela’s musical quest began, you have to start with his education at London’s Trinity College School of Music. […]
A video essay on Fela Kuti, Nigeria’s most political musical icon, directed by Akinola Davies Jr, including interviews with Seun & Femi Kuti.
Spoken word and music by Nigerian musician Obongjayar.
"The death of his mum too really broke him."
One Day Go Be One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWFBcjfY0M
"Death is not Silence"
Fela Kuti – Why Black Man Dey Suffer
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-why-black-man-dey-suffer/
Why Black Man Dey Suffer – LP (1971)
Listen to Sir Paul McCartney remembering this song played live at the Shrine.
On 1 January 1971, Fela changes his band’s name from Nigeria 70 to Africa 70. It is a breakthrough year for the group, which will remain the hottest attraction in Nigeria (and elsewhere […]
Love & Revolution (Cinnamon Version) · Seun Kuti · Egypt 80 · Adi Oasis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9EZPya4TQ
Lester Bowie – For Fela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/
Lester Bowie spent 6 months in Lagos with Fela Kuti in 1977.
The original version is on the LP “African Children”, released in 1978. […]
Paris DJs – Summer 2013
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-playlist-summer-2013/
Paris DJs is a Paris-based production team (Djouls, Grant Phabao, Loik Dury & Ben Hito) featuring worldwide guest vocalists, musicians, deejays, graphic/web designers and writers.Reggae, Afro, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Hip Hop and more audio goodness.
Playlist includes Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Muyiwa Kunnuji.
#60smusic #70smusic #AfroFunk #Guinea #Nigeria #Soundcloud #Afrobeat
Femi Kuti – As We Struggle Everyday (Edit)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-struggle-everyday/
“As We Struggle Everyday” is taken from the album Legacy +, that includes a full album by Femi (Stop The Hate) and one by his son Made, titled For(e)ward.
"Legendary activist and Afrobeat originator, Fela Kuti, used his music to lament social injustices and political corruption in his native Nigeria. Fela’s legacy spans decades and […]"
Africa Is The Future – Kologbo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/africa-future-kologbo/
Guitar legend Oghene Kologbo was born in Warri, Nigeria in 1957. His father was the well known highlife musician Joe King Kologbo. When Kologbo was a teenager, he began performing with the revolutionary Afrobeat master Fela Kuti. Kologbo went on to record more than 50 sides with Africa 70. He played the hypnotic tenor guitar […]
Femi Kuti – The World is Changing
https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-world-changing/
Femi Kuti released his 8th album “No Place for My Dream” in 2013, with the single “The World is Changing”, three years after “Africa For Africa”.
Poverty is winning the game…
Are you ready to fight?
