Sunny Ade & his African Beats – Syncro System Movement
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sunny-ade-african-beats-syncro-system-movement/
The Original Syncro System Movement is a vinyl LP from 1974, reissued in 1983.
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70smusic
Afro Super-Feelings led by Segun Okeji
https://amf.didiermary.fr/afro-super-feelings-segun-okeji/
Afrobeat Disco/Funk from the vault… A 2-track LP Afro Super-Feelings Led By Segun Okeji released in 1970.
This is an album comprised of two super-rare Afrobeat disco/funk tracks from Lagos by the band Afro Super-Feelings, led the by artist/musician Segun Okeji.
Segun Okeji was the tenor sax player in Fela Kuti‘s Koola Lobitos band […]
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Ouinsou Corneille – Vinon So Minsou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ouinsou-corneille-black-santiago-vinon-so-minsou/
“Vinon So Minsou” is from a 7″ vinyl released in 1979, composed by Ouinsou Corneille and recorded with Black Santiago de Cotonou as backing band. It’s available on the African Scream Contest compilation. […]
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Electric Mamba – Zingo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/electric-mamba-zingo/
This “African 70smusic” styled song is a collaboration between Idylle Mamba and the French Afrobeat band Electric Safari (Lyon).
"Electric Mamba est un collectif de sept musiciens partageant une même passion pour les sonorités seventies des productions africaines. Leur répertoire s’incarne dans un univers cinématique, oscillant entre rythmiques frénétiques, transes électriques et [...]"
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Manu Dibango – African Battle
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-african-battle/
Originally credited as Manu Dibango’s African Battle on the compilation, and later changed to Soul Fiesta. But the real track is “The Panther”, IMHO….
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The Story of Ethio Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-ethio-jazz-mulatu-astatke/
Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached […]
#60smusic #70smusic #Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #Jazz #MulatuAstatké
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Fela Kuti – Why Black Man Dey Suffer
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-why-black-man-dey-suffer/
Why Black Man Dey Suffer – LP (1971)
Listen to Sir Paul McCartney remembering this song played live at the Shrine.
On 1 January 1971, Fela changes his band’s name from Nigeria 70 to Africa 70. It is a breakthrough year for the group, which will remain the hottest attraction in Nigeria (and elsewhere […]
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Highlife Music of Ghana and Nigeria
https://amf.didiermary.fr/highlife-music-ghana-nigeria-60s-70s/
70s Highlife Music from Ghana and Nigeria in this documentary, unfortunately lacking all the songs and performers names. If you know, please comment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTBW-NsbSA
#60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #Documentary #FelaKuti #Ghana #Highlife #Nigeria
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Dr Victor Olaiya & his All-Stars
https://amf.didiermary.fr/victor-olaiya-all-stars/
Dr Victor Olaiya is considered the bridge between Ghanaian highlife and what would become Afrobeat.
His musical style was influenced by James Brown, with horn parts harmonized in Brown’s style, as opposed to the mostly unison lines of Afrobeat. The music includes the swinging percussion of Tony Allen, but not the syncopated style that [...]
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Ambolley – Simigwa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-simigwa/
Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]
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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-ambolley-simigwa-do/
Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to [...]
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Xalam – Festival Horizonte
https://amf.didiermary.fr/xalam-festival-horizonte-berlin-79/
Xalam is a Senegalese band that’s known for its Jazz Fusion, mixing western instrumentation with traditional African percussion and rhythms.
"Ade" is a live concert recorded at Festival Horizonte in Berlin in 1979.
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Paris DJs – Summer 2013
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-playlist-summer-2013/
Paris DJs is a Paris-based production team (Djouls, Grant Phabao, Loik Dury & Ben Hito) featuring worldwide guest vocalists, musicians, deejays, graphic/web designers and writers.Reggae, Afro, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Hip Hop and more audio goodness.
Playlist includes Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Muyiwa Kunnuji.
#60smusic #70smusic #AfroFunk #Guinea #Nigeria #Soundcloud #Afrobeat
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Super Biton de Ségou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-biton-segou/
“Né de la fusion de plusieurs orchestres régionaux au milieu des années 60, le Super Biton de Ségou s’est fait connaître du grand public malien lors des Semaines de la Jeunesse, où il a raflé plusieurs prix de 1964 à 1968”.
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Zambia’s 70s Psych Rock Scene
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zambia-70s-psych-rock-scene-zamrock/
Zambia’s 70s Psych Rock Scene, aka Zamrock!
Zamrock thrived for only a few years in the mid-70s, but its bands produced some incredibly catchy rock anthems. Taking influence from a diverse range of sounds like Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground, afrobeat and Zambian folk, Zamrock is an incredibly rich and fun genre to sink your […]
#70smusic #Documentary #Psychedelic #Zambia #Zamrock #Rock #AltRock
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Black Styl & Nkotti François – Makossa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nkotti-francois-black-styl-makossa/
Want to learn how to dance Makossa? Here’s a classic video…
"Makossa” was the first single taken from “Black Styl Le Grand Retour” (1993) with Nkotti François, the last album of a mythic band.
François Nkotti, aka Desto, (1951 – 2021), founded the Black Styl band (or Les BlackStyls) with Toto Guillaume, Émile Kangue et Yves Lobe. […]
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Mbote Na Beno Vol. 1-3
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mbote-na-beno-vol-1-3/
The 3 volumes of “Mbote Na Beno” (Hi there! when greeting a person in Kikongo language) are compilations of Congolese music by NoForm: Production, a Swiss label by “La Société des Ambianceurs” (see also La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes), to relay their work and eclectic projects.
Each compilation contains a mix […]
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Léon Keita – Gnanassouma
https://amf.didiermary.fr/leon-keita-gnanassouma/
From the legendary Rail Band from Bamako to les Ambassadeurs internationaux, Leon Keita, singer et guitar player, forged his manding sound and later recorded 2 solo albums. A fixture on the Malian music scene, Leon Keïta was born in Conakry on the Atlantic coast of Guinea in 1947. After completing his studies he found his […]
Orchestre Macchi – Lola Muana
https://amf.didiermary.fr/orchestre-macchi-lola-muana/
Lorsqu’un groupe de jeunes dirigé par Dindo Yogo (Théodore Djangi Dindo Yogo) et Nseka dit “Huit Kilos” forment l’Orchestre Macchi autour 1973-74, ils proposent un nouveau son à travers la guitare de Huit Kilos et l’ensemble des musiciens.
Dindo Yogo (1955-2000) a été le chanteur de Zaïko Langa Langa entre 1984 et 1991.
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Mbaraka Mwinshehe & Orchestra Super Volcano – Masika Mtindo Mpya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mwinshehe-super-volcano-masika-mtindo-mpya/
Orchestra Super Volcano is the band formed in Kenya by Mbaraka Mwinshehe when he relocated there from Tanzania.
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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.
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Compilation “Afro Baby – The Evolution of the Afro-Sound in Nigeria 1970-1979”
https://amf.didiermary.fr/afro-baby/
Nigeria in the 1970s had one of the biggest recording industries on the continent as well as one of the most diverse. The fusion of African rhythms and culture with jazz, funk, soul and rock was an Africa wide phenomenon but nowhere was […]
#70smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Highlife #Nigeria #OrlandoJulius #AfroBeat
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Manu Dibango – Ah! Freak sans fric
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-afrique-sans-fric/
Ah! Freak sans fric… Afrique sans fric… Un très bon morceau, bien dansant de Manu Dibango.
"This album is dedicated to all brothers for a better vibration." [sleeve note]
L’album “Home Made” de 1979, enregistré au Nigeria, puis remixé et mastérisé à Paris, contient les titres […]
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Nyboma & les Kamale Dynamiques
https://amf.didiermary.fr/double-double-nyboma-kamale-dynamiques-zaire/
Orchestre Kamale (aka “Kamale Dynamiques”) was formed in 1975 by singer Nyboma Mwan’dido with members of Orchestre Lipua-Lipua, where he was a singer from 1973 to 1975 and where he had his first hit “Kamale”.
Orchestre Kamale didn’t last very long and split up in 1978.
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Amadou Balaké – Super Bar Konon Mousso
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-bar-konon-mousso-amadou-balake/
Although the video says it was recorded in Lagos in 1978, the reality, as Discogs states and as many musicians and bands did at that time, is that Amadou Balaké (or Ballaké) from Burkina Faso gathered musicians in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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