Anyone into African music? (1 Viewer)

[george mcfly]

Check out William Onyeabor and pick up the compilation of his tracks from Luaka Bop. If you're familiar with the Nigeria 70 compilations, which are a great starting point for Nigerian disco and funk, you've probably come across a couple of his tracks. He released 8 records between 78 and 85 and then became a born again Christian.

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There's lots of amazing stuff to check out if you do a bit of digging. Supafrico 12 inches are a great buy, Lagos Disco Inferno is a great one to pick up too.

For psychedelic rock, it's worth checking out the bands from Zambia'x 70s rock movement, like Witch, Amanaz, Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Check out William Onyeabor and pick up the compilation of his tracks from Luaka Bop. If you're familiar with the Nigeria 70 compilations, which are a great starting point for Nigerian disco and funk, you've probably come across a couple of his tracks. He released 8 records between 78 and 85 and then became a born again Christian.

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There's lots of amazing stuff to check out if you do a bit of digging. Supafrico 12 inches are a great buy, Lagos Disco Inferno is a great one to pick up too.

For psychedelic rock, it's worth checking out the bands from Zambia'x 70s rock movement, like Witch, Amanaz, Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family.

@george mcfly would you have a copy of Lagos Disco Inferno that you could maybe post?

 

[george mcfly]

@george mcfly would you have a copy of Lagos Disco Inferno that you could maybe post?

Sure. I think I have a digital copy but if not I'll rip it and DM it to you.
I'll throw in a great Onyeabor comp that a friend of mine put together too.

 

[hugh]

This is the shit guys

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[Unknown Convict]

this shuffled onto the stereo today. hardly 100% african, given it's a sitar-led, iranian funk track. "african jumbo" by abbas mehrpouya:

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[Unknown Convict]

1978 electronic album from niger. fans of sagor & swing would approve.

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[Unknown Convict]

saw this guy in dublin about 10 years ago. shiyani ngcobo:

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[Unknown Convict]

a couple of 1980s rumbas, first tazanian, second colgolese

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[Unknown Convict]

this one's the equal of anything on the ethiopiques series

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[hugh]

a couple of 1980s rumbas, first tazanian, second colgolese

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I have that album. It's good ...

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Not yet.....

 

[dunderhead]

1978 electronic album from niger. fans of sagor & swing would approve.

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listened to a few more tracks on youtube. great stuff. definitely will be picking up that release from last year soon. released by mississippi records i see. love their releases

 

[Diumraid]

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[7 - No tomorrow]

I think it's gonna be an African-heavy weekend for me here

 

[Jerry Twig]

1978 electronic album from niger. fans of sagor & swing would approve.

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Afro-supermarket music

 

[george mcfly]

I think it's gonna be an African-heavy weekend for me here

Two great tracks for the weekend.

Both euphoric in different ways

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Haven't forgotten about Lagos Disco Inferno

 

[dunderhead]

Two great tracks for the weekend.

Both euphoric in different ways

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Haven't forgotten about Lagos Disco Inferno

got that group inerane cd. some great tracks. love this live footage

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[george mcfly]

got that group inerane cd. some great tracks. love this live footage

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I love that footage

Saw them play in Utrecht a couple of years back. They were amazing live

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

BBC News - Frank Gossner: The archaeologist of African vinyl

Apologies if this has been posted before, good reading.

 

[nooleen]

BBC Radio 4 - Ata Kak and the Crate Diggers

It's 2002. On a makeshift stall in Cape Coast, Ghana, Brian Shimkovitz, a young American ethnomusicologist, buys a cassette tape. The bright yellow cover features a picture of the artist clutching a microphone and sporting a denim jacket, black cap worn backwards and dark sunglasses. He's called Ata Kak.

The tape is packed away and forgotten, re-discovered a few years later in New York.
It's the start of an obsession.

Brian is one of a handful of bloggers, DJs and record label bosses who are digging up lost musical gems from across Africa and giving it a new lease of life. They're the crate diggers; enthusiasts of new sounds and exotic rhythms found in piles of dusty LPs lying forgotten across the African continent and beyond. Brian Shimkovitz started a blog called Awesome Tapes From Africa. Inspired by his fellow American and European crate diggers, it's now a fledgling record label.

Mark Coles follows Brian as he searches for Ata Kak, a hunt that takes him around the world at great personal expense. Who is the man behind this bizarre blend of excited shrieks, raps and 90's beats who, unknowingly, now has a fanbase of cool kids, online music geeks and world music devotees?

Mark meets Andy Morgan, music writer and former manager of world music superstars Tinariwen and Miles Cleret from Soundway Records. Plus he talks to Ebo Taylor, a Ghanaian highlife legend, now 78 years old and pursuing an international career after appearing on Soundway's first compilation. In a financially compromised music industry, what can Brian hope to offer an obscure Ghanaian rapper?

But first, he just has to find him....