James BKS – Kwele
https://amf.didiermary.fr/james-bks-kwele/
Kwele is James BKS’ first single released on Idris Elba’s new Label “7Wallace”, featuring Allan Kingdom & Manu Dibango.
Lee-James Edjouma, better known by his stage name James BKS, and son of famous Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango, is a French lyricist, a music composer and a producer of African hip hop. […]
My new video is published on YouTube and my PeerTube channel.
I put gripes to music.
YouTube:
PeerTube:
Up late? Or early? Is it mid-afternoon where you are?
New music, hot off the mixer and video editor!
New music video from me!
Also available at my PeerTube site:
Stop the presses! New Music Video from me!
I really like this lead, so I left it in where usually I wouldn't. What do you think?
I've released another music video!
This is another with lyrics based on a poem by @atomic
Available at my PeerTube site:
https://video.stevesworld.co/w/7a7ofVran8GW34tVSraiPz
#music #MusicVideo #poem #poetry #rock #AlternativeRock #pop
New music!!
Lyrics by @ai6yr and @shadenar.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy but I am responsible for everything else, lol.
This song is based on 3 posts in a mastodon thread.
https://video.stevesworld.co/w/fwBDpkJDurSEimxiR4ycau
#rock #funk #pop #music #NewMusic #MastodonMusic #Mastodon #MusicProduction
Onipa – Open my Eyes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-open-my-eyes/
Onipa’s debut single “Open My Eyes” sets the tone for their high octane fusion of styles, weaving together Congolese guitars lines, disco drums, synth bass and K.O.G’s distinctive pidgin rap. The song tells us how in a world full of confusion and distraction, we sometimes need to look inside ourselves for the answers. […]
Onipa – Off the Grid
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-off-the-grid/
Off the Grid by Onipa is a journey that joins the origin story of dance rhythms from Africa to electronic dance music of today’s clubs and festivals, connecting African folklore and storytelling to rap, jazz and hip hop.
Video shot around the coast of Accra in Ghana. […]
Franck Biyong – Liyomba Church
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franck-biyong-liyomba-church/
Franck Biyong‘s “Liyomba Church” (2016) is Afro-Jazzy-Pop-Electro-Rock from Cameroon…
“Liyomba Church” opens with high-energy screeches and thumps that won’t let you go. It’s a fervent and unabashed call to dance, an astonishing afro/pop crossover aiming for the clubs.
Zango – WITCH
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zango-witch/
We Intend to Cause Havoc! (aka WITCH), the famous 70’s ZamRock band is back with a new album, “Zango”!
After a long hiatus, the spirit of the band was reborn in 2012, with lead vocalist Emanuel “Jagari” Chanda.
In this 2023 mini-documentary, Making of Zango, which follows the band’s 2019 feature length documentary […]
New music video just dropped!! It's about one of the greatest threats facing humanity!!!! I may run out of exclamation points!!!!!!! This is serious, people!!!!!!!!!!!!
🛸
Another Fediverse production featuring lyrics by @atomic. You know that verse is good. It's Fediverse.
Takeifa Band – Supporter
https://amf.didiermary.fr/takeifa-band-supporter/
If you walk through the streets of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, and ask one of the locals where the Keita siblings live, you will soon get an answer, because the Takeifa Band around its founder and lead vocalist Jac Keita have long been a musical institution in Senegal, their home country.
The cohesion of the […]
Mystery of the lost Mandela song
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mystery-lost-mandela-song/
Shortly after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, a South African equivalent of "We Are the World" was recorded to celebrate Madiba’s freedom. But the song and the video sank without a trace. Here, for the first time, the video maker tells the secret history of "The People Want Mandela" and how it […]
RIP Thomas Chibade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-thomas-chibade/
One of Malawi‘s biggest music stars, Thomas Chibade, dead at the age of 37 in October 2023. His compositions, between Reggae and AfroPop, were popular among young Malawians.
He started his carrer in the early 2000s with his album “Zatukusira”, a Chichewa word which could be translated as “It has come out”. […]
BLK JKS – Harare
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-harare/
The band BLK JKS came back after a 10-years hiatus, with their album “Abantu / Before Humans” in 2021 and a documentary.
"They are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a […]
The Parlotones – Overexposed
https://amf.didiermary.fr/parlotones-overexposed-2008/
I probably discovered the Parlotones at one of the annual Midem exhibitions I attended.
The song “Overexposed” is from their second album “Radiocontrolledrobot” released in 2005 in South Africa and again in 2007 with an international version with less tracks.
The Parlotones are a renowned South African indie rock band hailing from Johannesburg, formed in 1998. […]
