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Soon on Left Ear Records: Shahara-Ja’s electro soul gem ‘I’m An Arabian Knight’
Australia’s Left Ear Records are planning the reissue of this cult record – Shahara-Ja’s I’m An Arabian Knight. This great video of the late 1980s oddity gives us a taster. The label has so far reunited us with the Yoruba Singers, Brother Resistance, Starship Commander Woo Woo, Andre Tanker and Leong Lau. More at Left…
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Dreamy taster for new Fabiano Do Nascimento LP on Now Again
Egon at Now Again dropped this Brazilian teaser on us today. Sounds heavenly. Tempo Dos Mestres by guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento is out soon. *Check out the Southern Africa section for an exclusive interview with Egon about Zamrock.
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Inspirational Zohra Afghan women’s orchestra is honored with Freemuse Award
This is Zohra – the first and only all female orchestra in Afghanistan. They are all students at the National Institute of Music (ANIM) and have been honored with a special award. The Freemuse Award is given to an individual or an organisation that “has worked for freedom of musical expression in a remarkable way”.…
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From Mali – Awa Poulo’s rare modern take of Peulh music for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Out today, ANOTHER treasure from the Awesome Tapes From Africa label. This sounds wonderful. Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. On the LP Poulo Warali: “She and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant…
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World Treasures Music end of year review
Click here to listen to the World Treasures Music review mix. A number of artists’ passing will make 2016 memorable. A champion of world treasures at the legendary New York venue, The Loft, was David Mancuso, who was mourned widely in the music world after his death aged 72. Sun Palace’s Rude Movements was remastered…
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WTM presents: DJ Okapi and Ruf Dug, Friday 18th November
Tickets for Hifi at: http://www.ticketarena.co.uk/venues/hifi-club-leeds/tickets/index.html Free pre-party at Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds.
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Honest Jon’s newest talent is Obadikah
Fantastic new release on Honest Jon’s Records – the Obadikah brass band from Lagos, Nigeria. From what I can gather. Obadikah were previously known as Awamaridi Brass Band and the video shows them performing in 2014. Obadikah is a group of old friends who play together in the Baptist churches of the Ikeja and Isale…
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INTERVIEW: DJ Okapi, a world renouned taste-maker and head of the Afrosynth label of Johannesburg
DJ Okapi has been at the fore of rediscovering dance music from South Africa since his Afrosynth blog started seven years ago. He has just compiled Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth-Disco 1980-1984 for Cultures of Soul and is about to commence a DJ tour of Europe. As well as blogging about under-publicised artists from his…
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Bitori’s ‘forbidden music’ – new installment for Analog Africa
Don’t let Bitori’s Legend of Funaná (The Forbidden Music of The Cape Verde Islands) pass you by – following on from the music of Cabo Verde Space Echo compilation: Originally recorded in 1998 in Rotterdam, the album Bitori Nha Bibinha revolutionised the uplifting ‘funana’ genre from the Cabo Verdian island Santiago. The album is named after…
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