Harry Mosco – For You Specially
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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.
Maurice Poto Doudongo – The Lost Album
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During the 80s in Brussels, a Congolese musician, Maurice Poto Doudongo, starts musical experimentations, after working with Zaïko Langa Langa in Kinshasa.
Poto Doudongo is in his 20s, works with Zazou Bikaye, and decides to record a solo album, where he plays all instruments. The result is a mix of [...]
Ivory Coast Soul (Vol. 1 & 2)
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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
One Night in Pelican
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“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub.
Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of […]
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi – Sungu Lubuka
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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
Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu – You Need Love
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Conflict was originally released in 1980 and was partially remade as part of Taylorʼs 2009 “Love and Death” album. […]
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.
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.
Douala by Night
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“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. […]
Black Jesus Experience – Ethiobop
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Ethiobop is a track from album “Migration” in 2014 by Black Jesus Experience, an Ethio-Jazz band from Melbourne, well known for years of Australian performances as Mulatu Astatke‘s band. They blend traditional Ethiopian music with modern hip-hop and funk grooves.
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
Amadou Ballaké et les 5 Consuls – Renouveau
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From compilation “Bambara Mystic Soul – The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979”, where Amadou Ballaké appears with Orchestre Super Volta too.
Formerly known as Haute Volta, Burkina Faso’s sound was organized and nurtured during the country’s time as part of a vast patchwork making up French colonial West Africa.[...]
#AfroFunk #AfroLatino #BurkinaFaso #Compilation #OldAfricanMusic
Burger Highlife
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The first ever compilations focussing on the phenomenon of “Burger Highlife”, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond.
The 1970s had witnessed an increased Western airtime and physical presence in Ghana introducing funk, soul and disco sounds [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
Pop Makossa
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Compilation “Pop Makossa – The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon (1976-1984)”
[…] all the tracks are a revelation. The beat that holds everything together has its origins in the rhythms of the Sawa people; Ambassey, Bolobo, Assiko and Essewé, a traditional funeral dance. But it wasn’t until these rhythms arrived in the cities of Cameroon […]
Cameroon Garage Funk
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cameroon-garage-funk/
“Cameroon Garage Funk” is a compilation of “obscure” tracks from 1964 to 1979.
Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper […]
Manu Dibango – New Bell (Hard Pulsation)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-new-bell-hard-pulsation-1972/
New Bell (Hard Pulsation) was released as a single in 1972 (B-side: Hibiscus), as the B-Side of an unofficial release of Soul Makossa in the US, and is of course part of the tracklist on the original Soul Makossa album.
Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch – Funky Boogie Woogie
https://amf.didiermary.fr/marcy-luarks-classic-touch-funky-boogie-woogie/
“Funky Boogie Woogie”, from the 1983 album, “Electric Murder”, the “mythical” American-Nigerian AfroBoogie masterpiece.
The product of the then husband and wife team of Marcy and Dan, ‘Electric Murder’ brought together both the former’s American and the latter’s Nigerian roots; recorded in London with UK-based session musicians, this mix [...]
Matadi – Dance My Love
https://amf.didiermary.fr/matadi-dance-my-love/
Matadi était un groupe de musiciens “mercenaires” africains basés à Paris et réunis pour un album unique afro-disco-funk en 1978 avec le célèbre bassiste et arrangeur camerounais Haladji Touré.
5 titres de cet album ont été utilisés pour la BOF du film et comédie musicale “Dance my love” (Danse mon amour) réalisé par Alphonse Beni, sorti […]
Manu Dibango – Electric Africa
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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
Old footage of Harari live
Harari (“Lone Wanderer”) was a legendary Afro-Rock group founded in the late 60’s by Om Alec Khaoli, Selby Ntuli and Sipho Hotstix Mabuse.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/old-footage-harari-live-kippies-club-joburg/
Through the years Harari supported many international acts on their tours of South Africa, including Percy Sledge, Timmy Thomas, Brook Benton, Wilson Pickett and Letta Mbulu. […]
Harari – Party
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This single by Harari, “Party” (the 7″ release), entered the US Disco Top 100 in 1982.
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. […]
Sharhabil Ahmed – Argos Farfish / Zulum Aldunya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sharhabil-ahmed-argos-farfish-zulum-aldunya/
Sharhabil Ahmed, also known as the “King of Sudanese Jazz,” was born in 1935 and is the founding father of the Sudanese Jazz scene. His aim was to modernize Sudanese music by bringing it together with western influences and instrumentation. Contemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from [...]
#60smusic #AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #Jazz #Soundcloud #Sudan #OldAfricanMusic
K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda
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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 […]
