Salif Keita – Le Sud (Sosie)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-le-sud/
Salif Keita interprète le titre “Le Sud” de Nino Ferrer (la reprise démarre à 4:31 et est précédée dans la vidéo ci-dessous par Le Lac Majeur de Mort Shuman).
Sosie, sorti sur le label danois MS Verdenshjørnet en 1997, car refusé par sa maison de disques de l’époque en France pour de fumeuses considérations*, est […]
Socool - Blow Out ✨
Available now, everywhere!
https://socool.bandcamp.com/album/blow-out
We celebrate the last days of summer with this wonderful cover version of Radiohead’s “Blow Out” by Emily Sobool aka Socool who turns it into a modern, meandering ambient ballad.
@socool's take on Blow Out turns the song into a beautifully evocative exploration through a nocturnal ambient soundscape with piano chords carrying her whispery voice like a glow in the darkness.
Jazz’n Kora… So What…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-kora-miles-davis-so-what-cover/
Djeli Moussa Diawara covering Miles Davis’ So What, live in Paris in 2011.
Djeli Moussa Diawara plays a unique 32-strings Kora, where he can have access to the traditional harp-luth sounds and some guitar/bass ones in one instrument.
Disclaimer: I was the producer here.
From the vault: Coldplay’s Peponi (Paradise)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/coldplay-paradise-peponi/
Coldplay’s Paradise (Peponi in Swahili) covered “African Style” by The Piano Guys featuring guest artist Alex Boye on vocals in 2012. He sings the tune in 4 different languages: Swahili, English, Yoruba (his mother’s native language) and Alex’s own “African scat”.
Djeli Moussa Diawara – Autumn Leaves (cover)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-autumn-leaves/
Autumn Leaves cover live – une reprise des Feuilles Mortes
Djeli Moussa Diawara played this song for an event to support the Tunisian Spring a few years ago in Paris…
Lady cover for Red Hot + Fela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cover-lady-tune-yards-angelique-kidjo-akua-naru/
A cover of Fela Kuti‘s Lady with tUnE-yArDs, Angelique Kidjo, ?uestlove & Akua Naru for the album Red Hot + Fela in 2013.
Elage Diouf – I am a man of constant sorrow
https://amf.didiermary.fr/elage-diouf-man-constant-sorrow/
Cover of “I am a man of constant sorrow” from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
In 2002, the popular revival of this mountain ballad took bluegrass to #1 on the Billboard Album Chart.
Momo Wandel Soumah – Felenko Yéfé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/momo-wandel-soumah-felenko-yefe/
Momo Wandel Soumah (1926 – 2003), était un chanteur, compositeur et saxophoniste de Guinée, reconnaissable à sa voix rocailleuse caractéristique et son style de saxophone très personnel et inspiré.
Imaginez Louis Armstrong avec un saxophone en Guinée, Roi du Swing et de l’Improvisation.
“Le jazz est né chez vous, mais moi, je l’ai ramené chez […]
Angelique Kidjo – OYO, une enfance africaine
https://amf.didiermary.fr/angelique-kidjo-oyo-enfance-africaine/
L’album d’Angélique Kidjo, Oyo (Õÿö), sorti en février 2010, est à première vue un patchwork étonnant, si l’on en connait pas l’origine : une enfance africaine. […]
Francis Bebey – Idiba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/francis-bebey-idiba/
“Idiba” (face B : Madonna Verona) est un 45T sorti par Francis Bebey en 1970, qui est certainement le premier titre d’inspiration Makossa diffusé en disque. La chanson sera ensuite reprise par de nombreux autres artistes.
#70smusic #Cameroon #Cover #FrancisBebey #Makossa #ManuDibango
Keletigui Diabate Feat. Habib Koite – Summertime at Bamako
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-diabate-habib-koite-summertime-bamako/
Summertime at Bamako is a track on Kélétigui Diabaté’s album “Sandiya” with Habib Koité on guitar. The master balafonist revisits American composer George Gershwin’s Summertime from Porgy & Bess (1935).
Hugh Masekela – Night In Tunisia
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-night-in-tunisia/
“Night in Tunisia” est l’un des morceaux extraits d’une compilation dédiée à Hugh Masekela “Township Grooves”, qui reprend des compositions datant des années 1965 à 1974.
C’est bien sûr une reprise de Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia”, ici en live en 1981. […]
Ezra Collective – Lady
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ezra-collective-lady/
“Our band has been paying tribute to Fela Kuti’s music since we first started releasing music,” Femi Koleoso, leader of the Afro-fusion quintet Ezra Collective, said.
A refreshing take by Ezra Collective on Fela Kuti’s 1972 classic, “Lady,” commissioned by the Fela Kuti estate, this record is part of the re-issue of Fela Kuti’s 1972 […]
Manu Dibango – Je Veux Etre Noir
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-etre-noir-nino-ferrer/
An instrumental cover of the late Nino Ferrer’s song “Je veux être noir” by Manu Dibango.
In the 70s, Manu Dibango became one of the musicians working with Nino Ferrer, playing organ, piano and sax. Ferrer’s original song is an homage to Black American music, Soul and Rhythm and Blues, as well as clearly committed […]
Angelique Kidjo – Born Under Punches
https://amf.didiermary.fr/angelique-kidjo-remain-in-light/
Kidjo’s always been an eclectic singer… From her cover in 2018 of the Talking Heads album, “Remain In Light.”
“The record is a track-by-track re-imagination of the original, considered to be one of the greatest albums of the ‘80s and deeply influenced by music from West Africa, notably Fela Kuti‘s Afrobeat.” […]
