Blaugust, cuz why not https://blog.douchi.space/blaugust/?utm_source=douchi.space
跟风参加先来一篇 intro。好久没拿英文写非 work related 的东西了……
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Alhaji Ayinla Kollington – Omo Araiye
https://amf.didiermary.fr/alhaji-ayinla-kollington-omo-araiye/
Alhaji Ayinla Kollington is a Nigerian Fuji musician and one of the pioneers of the genre with Yoruba muslim roots.
Starting in the early 1960’s of Nigeria, a select group of innovators transform the sound of Owambe parties and traditional Were music to create Fuji music, a genre that began as a socio-cultural movement […]
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Mama Mosambiki – Eyuphuro
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mama-mosambiki-eyuphuro/
Eyuphuro (“whirlwind” in Makua) is a Mozambican band, founded in 1981. Their successful album Mama Mosambiki, in the Marrabenta style, was released in 1990, before their breakup.
In 1998, singer Zena Bacar reformed Eyuphuro and a “reunion” album in 2001, Yellela, toured with a different line-up from the first one. […]
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Mahotella Queens’ Come back (Buya Buya)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-queens-come-back-buya/
“Buya Buya: Come Back” is the first full album of exciting new Queens material in nearly 20 years and marks their long-awaited return to the world stage. This release also heralds a new chapter in the Mahotella story under the supervision of Hilda Tloubatla, who at the grand age of 83 is the group’s last […]
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跟随 @mtfront 的步伐！我也来 #Blaugust！写了一点关于心情低落时如何行动起来的体会，也顺着写到了“认命”与“不认命”之间的拉扯。
https://pensieve.wangxindi.org/2025/08/07/2025-08-07-blaugust00/
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Tsapiky!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tsapiky/
“Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar” is a compilation of music recorded live on location in various parts of the island.
In Toliara and its surrounding region, funerals, weddings, circumcisions and other rites of passage have been celebrated for decades in ceremonies called mandriampototse. During these celebrations – which last between three and seven days […]
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The African Music Forum is part of Blaugust2025, a festival of blogging or blogging challenge.
Here are the posts I published so far this August on AMF (17 so far):
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blaugust2025-amf/
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Blaugust 2025 !
J’ai décidé de participer à Blaugust 2025, pas avec mon blog principal, car mon rythme de publication est plutôt lent avec des articles assez longs à rédiger en général, mais avec mon second blog, l’African Music Forum.
J’ai donc au moins déjà gagné le Newbie Blogger Award. Pour en savoir plus ou participer, lisez ci-dessous. […]
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Pops Mohamed – Election Day Serenade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pops-mohamed-election-day-serenade/
Pops Mohamed had started his musical journey at Dorkay House, where he studied guitar and was able to hear the rehearsals of jazz legends such as saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. Later, it became one of his meeting and rehearsal spaces. “Me being from the East Rand,” he says, […]
#90smusic #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
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Mahmoud Ahmed & Badume’s Band – Mela Mela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-ahmed-badume-band-mela-mela/
Mahmoud Ahmed, the Ethiopian crooner… Live @ Fiest’A Sète 2008.
Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas. […]
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Ousmane Kouyaté
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ousmane-kouyate/
A 2-track Limited Dance Edition available on vinyl (and digital) with two funk-infused Mandingue gems from the early 1980s by Ousmane Kouyaté. Here’s also a track from his album “Révélation” in 1982. Ousmane Kouyaté was an innovator of the Mandingue sound, whose career – as a member of Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and as guitarist for […]
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Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roots-rocking-zimbabwe/
In the early 1970s, the townships of the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury (which would become Harare upon Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980), were buzzing with new sounds from diverse backgrounds. Bands began to fuse Anglo-Saxon rock, Congolese rumba, South African Mbaqanga, Soul, and traditional rhythms, [...]
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New Tutenkhamen – Forever together
https://amf.didiermary.fr/new-tutenkhamen-forever-together/
New Tutenkhamen, a 1970’s band from Harare, Zimbabwe, played an eclectic brand of Zimbabwean township music combining traditional rhythms and western influences.The album “I wish you were mine” was originally published in 1979, during the liberation war.
The band’s most famous release, “Itai Cent Cent” was a sad lament of the poverty afflicting black people [...]
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Black Disco – Night Express
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-disco-night-express/
2 album with Pops Mohamed (Organ – Electric Piano), Basil Coetzee (Flute, Tenor Sax), and Sipho Gumede (Bass), in two different styles with Black Disco and Movement in the City.
As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run […]
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Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestre-super-borgou-parakou-bariba-sound/
Super Borgou de Parakou was a band created by Moussa Mama and guitarist Menou Roch. This group, influenced by Afrobeat and Funk in the 1970s, also drew inspiration from Beninese folk music such as Bariba and Dendi.
The Bariba Sound 1970-76
Originating from the Kwara state of northwest Nigeria, the Bariba – a predominantly Islamic […]
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Teddy Khuluzwa, better known as Dr Footswitch, was one of the icons of rock in both Zimbabwe and Zambia through the 1970s.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-footswitch/
After a carreer in Zimbabwe, known as Southern Rhodesia at the time, Teddy Khuluzwa moved to Zambia.
In the ’60s and early ’70s, Khuluzwa played guitar alongside future Zamrock stars such as Rikki Ililonga, […]
#70smusic #FullAlbum #Rock #Zambia #Zamrock #Zimbabwe #Blaugust #Blaugust2025
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R.I.P Rachid Taha
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-rachid-taha/
Rachid Taha (1958 – 2018) was an Algerian singer and activist based in France, whose music was influenced by many different styles including Rock, Electro, Punk and Raï, a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s.
In the 1980s, Raï began its period of peak popularity. Previously, the Algerian government had […]
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Dancers in Zimbabwe with Dembo remix
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dancers-zimbabwe-remix-leonard-dembo/
A remixed version of a classic track by the late Zimbabwean guitarist Leonard Dembo, with dancers in Zimbabwe expressing themselves in the streets.
Original version
The song is “Funga Zuva Rimwe Pagore” by Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express, on their 1991 album “Tinokumbira Kurarama.” […]
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Tunde Nightingale – Original ‘Owa Nbe’ Sound
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tunde-nightingale-owa-nbe-owambe/
Two tracks from “The Original ‘Owa Nbe’ Sound” (Vol.1) by Tunde Nightingale.
Tunde Nightingale was perhaps the first musician to become a hit performer playing Jùjú in the post World War II period. His particular spin on Jùjú was known as “s’o wa mbe” (is it there?), a slightly risqué reference to the beads worn […]
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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
https://amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, […]
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Alefa Madagascar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salegy-alefa-madagascar/
“Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984,” the first compilation to document the unique music culture on the island during the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Originating as far back as the 15th Century through folkloric ceremonial music and an a cappella chanting style called antsa, salegy emerged as a fast-tempoed local dance […]
#70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Madagascar #Soukous #Blaugust
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Originally released in 2001, the first volume of Nigeria 70 was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the fertile music scene in Lagos as domestic artists mixed Highlife and traditional rhythms with Soul, Funk, Rock and Jazz. Three further volumes followed, exploring the far corners of original Afrobeat, Juju, Funk and […]
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nigeria-70/
Enjoy!
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #FullAlbum #Jazz #JujuMusic #Nigeria #Blaugust
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Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra
https://amf.didiermary.fr/warsaw-afrobeat-orchestra/
Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra (WAO) push their own sound, rooted in Lagos while adding their own unique flavors.
Formed in 2012, the 10-piece band consists of musicians that have worked and collaborated with each other in different projects ranging from Rock, Jazz, Folk, Reggae and Funk in the ever-evolving and musically diverse underground music scene in […]
#AfroFunk #altRock #Jazz #Remixed #Afrobeat #Poland #Blaugust
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