Fela Kuti – Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-teacher-nonsense-live/
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (and young Femi on sax) with Egypt 80: “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” live in England, at Glastonbury in 1984.
Tunaweza Music Band – Dar es Salaam
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tunaweza-music-band/
Tunaweza Music Band, based in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and formed in 2008, has 13-15 members now, majority of whom are physically disabled or albinos.
They chose the name TUNAWEZA to make a point: it translates roughly as ‘Yes We Can’.
“Our aims are to help ourselves by earning a living through doing something creative […]
Manu Dibango with Fania All Stars - Soul Makossa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77mBAPtnQ8
From “Fania All Stars - San Juan 73”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNnmexVf97M
Fania All Stars live in 1973 at “El Coliseo Roberto Clemente” in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with special guests Manu Dibango and Mongo Santamaria.
Xalam & Doudou N’diaye Rose
https://amf.didiermary.fr/xalam-live-doudou-ndiaye-rose/
Xalam is a Senegalese band that’s known for its Jazz Fusion, mixing western instrumentation with traditional African percussion and rhythms.
Xalam performing Kaniane (from album Apartheid – 1985) on April 30th, 2009, at the Iba Mar Diop Stadium in Dakar Senegal, with special special guest Doudou N’Diaye Rose.
Vaudou Game live @ Afrikafestival Hertme in 2015, after the release of their album Apiafo.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/vaudou-game-peter-solo-live-afrikafestival-hertme/
Swede Lokole – Bana Swede
https://amf.didiermary.fr/swede-lokole-bana-swede/
Festive, mainly acoustic, music from Congolese artists who lived in Côte d’Ivoire, as there was a civil war in their country. The cassettes, and later records, released by Swede Lokole were in fact a way for the band to show what they could offer on stage as a live band.
They trained themselves where they […]
Karim Ziad is a jazz and world music percussionist and singer from Algeria. In 2001, he released Ifrikya, backed by many of the luminaries of the French jazz scene like Nguyên Lê and Bojan Z. This is North African music, with Gnawa roots, but given a jazz treatment. […]
Kokoroko – Could We Be More
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-could-we-be-more/
“Could We Be More” is an expansive and ambitious album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.
Each song possesses the energy which so naturally underpins the heartbeat of Kokoroko’s identity – deftly moving through afrobeat, highlife, soul, and funk across the album’s 15 tracks and taking inspiration from a plethora of other influences from within […]
Bitori – Legend Of Funaná
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bitori-legend-of-funana/
In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares – better know as Bitori – walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made. […]
Bitori nha Bibinha (live - Utrecht)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22PdrHe7GBs
Guy One – #1
https://amf.didiermary.fr/guy-one-1/
Guy One performing traditional Frafra music from Ghana (now remixed in Germany).
Guy One is an utterly unique artist who writes and performs Frafra music, a style that originates from a small area in the north of Ghana (a more city-styled approach to this music can also be heard in the sounds of King Ayisoba).Whilst […]
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 – Pansa Pansa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-africa-70-pansa-pansa/
This video for Pansa Pansa is one of the few pro-shot concerts of legendary musician Fela Kuti, playing with his band Africa 70 at the Jazz Festival in Berlin in 1978.
Tambours de Brazza – Sur la Route des Caravanes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tambours-brazza-route-caravanes/
From album “Sur la Route des Caravanes” by Les Tambours de Brazza in 2013. The Congolese band created by Emile Biayenda in 1983 is back with a new album – a journey through modern African urban music, carried by the emblematic ngoma drums and bringing into play Congolese guitars and vocals rubbing shoulders with the […]
Osibisa - Africa We Go Go (live 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkgWNHltog
Not sure of the lineup...
Maravillas de Mali – Rendez-vous chez Fatimata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/maravillas-mali-rendez-vous-fatimata/
“Rendez-vous chez Fatimata” est la signature d’une lointaine époque musicale, ancrée dans le Danzón (l’un des rythmes au tempo lent, qui s’interconnecte au Son Cubano) avec bien sûr des éléments de rythmes maliens. Avec ce groupe mythique des années 60, c’est toute une nouvelle génération de musiciens qui montait sur scène [...]
In a "previous" life, 15 years ago, I worked with African musicians... and produced a few albums.
Here's a video of Djeli Moussa Diawara rehearsing Yasimika in 2010. This is a song he first recorded in 1982 for his famous eponym album and that was revisited and rerecorded at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnhXjmsLabU&list=PLEC15F65D21EEBAB2&index=2
There are more videos in this playlist and on DMD's YouTube channel.
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. […]
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Emi Aluta
Live session in Rio de Janeiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLiMys0Ddlg
"The track is a frenetic ode to the spirit of the struggle against bad political leadership."
From latest album ‘Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)’
https://amf.didiermary.fr/heavier-yet-seun-kuti/
