Mehdi Qamoum – Ana W Ana (Live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mehdi-qamoum-ana-w-ana/
Mehdi Qamoum is a versatile composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Agadir. A traditional gnawa musician, Mehdi has mastered numerous folk instruments including guembri, outar, karbaou, bendir and a custom guembri four-string electric bass which he built himself.
Mehdi Qamoum, known for his spiritual voice and his Guembri playing in the traditional [...]
Paul Simon – Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-simon-diamonds-soles-shoes/
“Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes” recorded live @ The African Concert in 1987 with Joseph Shabalala & Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The song features on Graceland, the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
“Graceland: The African Concert” was given in Zimbabwe, featuring such South African musicians [...]
Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Homeless
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-simon-ladysmith-black-mambazo-homeless/
Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was released on August 25, 1986. The song “Homeless” was the first recorded by Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo with lead singer Joseph Shabalala. It is considered one of the first modern “WorldMusic” albums, although [...]
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Blue Lab Beats – Motherland Journey
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blue-lab-beats-motherland-journey/
Blue Lab Beats are a London-based music duo, nominated since 2021 for multiple awards. They won a Grammy award in 2022 for their production on Angelique Kidjo’s Mother Nature. Their third album was released in February 2022 on Blue Note Records, and recorded in Ghana with Killbeatz. […]
Yoruba Women Of The Drum
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yoruba-women-drum/
Not a lot of information on this album from 1995 with Madam Comfort Omoge and Madam Mujidat Ogunfala, called ”Yoruba Women Of The Drum”. It’s best to listen to it…
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music […]
#70smusic #Compilation #Drums #FullAlbum #LiveMusic #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic
Bantous de la Capitale – Osala Ngai Nini
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bantous-de-la-capitale-osala-ngai-nini-alphonsine/
Passy Mermans, guitariste des Bantous de la Capitale, est décédé le 28 décembre 2022 à l’âge de 80 ans, quelques jours seulement après Ignace Makirimbia, batteur principal des Bantous.
Les Bantous de la Capitale, premier orchestre congolais créé en 1959, est né à la veille de l’indépendance du Congo.
Je les avais vus sur scène en […]
Cheikh Lô – Maame
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cheikh-lo-maame-2025/
Celebrating 50 years in music, Cheikh Lô returns in 2025 with his brand-new album “Maame.”After a decade long wait since his last studio album, the Senegalese legend returns.
Named after his spiritual guide Maame Massamba Ndiaye, the album is not only a tribute but a spiritual and political offering. [...]
Mwandishi Sextet Project
Herbie Hancock‘s three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the “Mwandishi” albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era (“Mwandishi” is Swahili for “writer”).
Back in the early 1970s when Jazz met Afrofuturism, Psychedelism and electronic experimentation. […]
Kin’Gongolo Kiniata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kin-gongolo-kiniata/
Originaires des quartiers populaires de Kinshasa, les membres du groupe Kin’Gongolo Kiniata sont des champions de la débrouille. Ils fabriquent en effet leurs instruments avec des matériaux de récupération. Leur musique électro-live électrise le public. Un air de famille avec Jupiter & Okwess ou l’ancien Staff Benda Bilili…
Nana Benz du Togo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nana-benz-du-togo/
Groupe togolais produit par Peter Solo (Vaudou Game), Nana Benz est un groupe afro-électro-féministe, qui propose un digital vaudou, rythmé, moderne et futuriste, sur une base instrumentale presque 100% organique et recyclée (au moins pour les percussionnistes). Il y a un côté très “CongoPunk” dans ces rythmiques et cette musique…
Leur nom se rapporte bien […]
Saha Gnawa - Soudani Manayou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14nLVZOYCc
Moroccan Gnawa paired with NYC jazz and groove. https://sahagnawa.bandcamp.com/album/saha-gnawa
The Skatalites – El Pussycat Ska (Live)
Original and live (faster) version.
The SN Project – Afrikanization
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sn-project-afrikanization/
Siphephelo Ndlovu (The SN Project) is a pianist and vocalist from South Africa. In 2020, his debut album titled “Afrikanization” was released, incorporating structures of the jazz language, blended with rich harmonies reminiscent of the isiZulu culture of South Africa.
