afrobeat

Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife

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“Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980​-​93” is a collection of 18 Burger Highlife, Electronic Afrobeat and Reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. [...]

#80smusic #90smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat #Electro

Fela Kuti – Sorrow, Tears & Blood

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“Sorrow, Tears and Blood”, a 10-minute track from 1977 with Africa 70, has Fela Kuti calling out the unjust killings that occurred in Nigeria, South Africa and all of the continent more broadly, under multiple authoritarian and totalitarian rules. […]

#FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti Special

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This post “Fela Kuti Special” is a selection of documentaries on the life, music and political commitment of the great Nigerian musician and how he evolved from Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti to Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the man with “death in his pouch.”

#AIDS #Photography #Documentary #FelaKuti #AfroBeat

Nigeria Afrobeat Special

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Compilation “Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound In 1970’s Nigeria”

#Benin #Compilation #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

The Liberators was a band of some of Sydney’s best musicians playing Afrobeat and AfroFunk Jazz music.

For "Rags to Riches" from their 1st album, released in 2011, the accompanying music video was a tribute to Blaxploitation.

https://www.didiermary.fr/the-liberators-rags-to-riches/

Warning: this music video could be considered #NSFW…

#AfroFunk #Jazz #Afrobeat #Blaxploitation #Australia

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band – Sonbonbela

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Je vous ai déjà présenté Baba Commandant dans un précédent billet. Sonbonbela est le 3ème album du groupe Mandingo Band, enregistré fin 2022 au Burkina Faso. […]

#BurkinaFaso #AfroBeat

Tony Allen – Afrobeat Revolution

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The Afrobeat Revolution started in Lagos at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1963 when Tony Allen met Fela Kuti. Allen was working as studio engineer at the time and Kuti had been hired as a disc jockey with his own jazz request programme.

The Nigerian drummer Tony Allen is credited with creating Afrobeat along with […]

#FelaKuti #FullAlbum #Nigeria #TonyAllen #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti – Upside Down

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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 […]

#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Somi – The Lagos Music Salon

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The Lagos Music Salon is the 4th studio full-length album by jazz hybrid singer and songwriter Somi. It was released in 2014. Somi is an American Jazz and Pop singer and songwriter.
Her music is influenced by her Ugandan and Rwandan roots, and she resides between New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. […]

#Bénin #EPK #Jazz #Nigeria #Rwanda #Uganda #AfroBeat

Seun Kuti and Black Thought remix

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Nigerian musician Seun Kuti and HipHop veteran Black Thought (head of legendary band The Roots) teamed again for a new remix EP African Dreams, that includes 3 tracks, nearly two months after the release of “Kuku Kee Me (Remix).”

“This EP is something new. I don’t think that something like this has been done before,” […]

#Nigeria #Remixed #AfroBeat

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, […]

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#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #Afrobeat

Fela Kuti – Gentleman (LP)

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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 […]

#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti – Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)

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Confusion Break Bones is a long track (29:10) by Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 on their album “Underground System” from 1992.

“Fela releases Underground System, which will be the final album of newly recorded studio material to be issued during his lifetime. The album is inspired in part by the 1987 assassination of Fela’s friend, […]

#90smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti – Mr Follow Follow

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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, […]

#70smusic #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra

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Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra was (is?) an American Afrobeat band from New York City, founded by Ray Lugo and formed in 2001.

#AfroFunk #Afrobeat

Afrobeat Brazil

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Afrobeat has seen a solid surge of support for years through multiple reincarnations amongst the underground scene in Brazil. All of the state’s capital cities have at least a band championing the movement, as musicians from diverse corners of the contemporary Brazilian music scene get inspired by Afrobeat and infuse elements into their own work. […]

#Brazil #Compilation #FelaKuti #AfroBeat

Kokoroko – Abusey Junction

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Released in 2018, “Abusey Junction” is the first record track of 8-piece band, London-based jazz collective Kokoroko.

“We Out Here” is a primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene. This new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where […]

#Compilation #Highlife #Jazz #AfroBeat

Red Hot + Riot

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2002’s Red Hot + Riot album is available on streaming platforms in a Deluxe reissue.

“The original album had to be heavily edited to fit the time limit of a physical CD, so there was a wealth of bonus material including extended versions of many tracks; along with early mixes, accapellas, instrumentals and more. […]

#FelaKuti #Remixed #AfroBeat

Thievery Corporation – Vampires Feat. Femi Kuti

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“Vampires” featuring Femi Kuti comes from the album, “Radio Retaliation” by Thievery Corporation in 2008.

Radio Retaliation is the fifth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on September 23, 2008, and was intended to be a political album.

#FelaKuti #Nigeria #Remixed #Soundcloud #AfroBeat #Electro

Kola Ogunkoya – Easy Motion Owambe

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Kola Ogunkoya is a Nigerian Afrobeat musician who uses the term “Afro Gbedu” to describe his style of music, which includes Jazz, Highlife, Jùjú, Funk and traditional Yoruba music.

#Highlife #JujuMusic #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti Box Set – The Legacy

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The Fela Kuti Box Set curated by Idris Elba is out now! In addition, a short documentary entitled “Fela Kuti: The Legacy” is available for viewing (below), revealing the Afrobeat pioneer’s cultural impact.

Directed by Kayode Thomas, it delves into the profound influence Fela had on fashion, style, and culture, as well as his impactful […]

#Documentary #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Fela Kuti – Birth Anniversary

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This is the anniversary of Fela Kuti‘s birth (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997).

Regarded, with Tony Allen, as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, he was referred to as one of Africa’s most “challenging and charismatic music performers,” at the height of his popularity.

For this birth anniversary, it’s also important to remember that […]

#AIDS #FelaKuti #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Kaleta & Super Yamba Band

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With Afrobeat & Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek (aka Kaleta) —a native of Benin Republic— on lead guitar, the Brooklyn-based Afro-Funk band Super Yamba Band explores the psychedelic sounds from Benin & Nigeria. […]

#AfroFunk #Bénin #JujuMusic #LiveMusic #AfroBeat

Gangbé – Documentary

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Preview of the 2014 documentary by Arnaud Robert relating Gangbé Brass Band‘s “quest” to record their new album and play in Lagos.
The adventure of a Benin brass band on the road to Lagos, to perform with Femi Kuti at the Shrine. […]

#Bénin #BrassBand #Documentary #Nigeria #AfroBeat

Gangbé Brass Band – Remember Fela

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Remember Fela is from Gangbé’s album Whendo in 2004, a tribute to Fela Kuti by the Beninese Brass Band.

#Bénin #BrassBand #FelaKuti #AfroBeat