Abranis – Chenar le blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abranis-chenar-le-blues/
Chenar Le Blues released in 1977 have been a big hit on Algerian national radio. This album marked the band response to the Doors.
Pioneering group of Algerian music, which was the first to fuse Berber and Western sounds, using Rock, Folk or Funk to celebrate its Kabyle heritage. The starting point of this adventure, […]
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas – Me Yee Owu Den
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cubano-fiestas-me-yee-owu-den/
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas, from AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS – West African Shock Waves – Ghana & Togo 1972-1979
Organ-driven Afrobeat, cosmic Afrofunk and raw, psychedelic boogie… just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation.
Libyan reggae? Yes, by Ibrahim Hesnawi in this compilation!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ibrahim-hesnawi-libyan-reggae/
In many countries, reggae was a widespread fad before its popularity gradually subsided. In Libya, however, the genre remained popular since its initial introduction in the late 1970s. Reggae’s thematic throughlines like references to Pan-Africanism, liberation, and the end of oppression and exploitation resonated—and [...]
Basa Basa Soundz Feat. Fela Kuti – Dr Solutsu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/basa-basa-soundz-dr-solutsu-fela-kuti/
Ghanaian Afro-pop group, Basa Basa Soundz visited Lagos, Nigeria in 1976 to record an album at Decca Records. Afro beat legend, Fela Kuti was around the studios at that time and he liked what he heard of the band and he decided to record a track with them and it was “Dr. Solutsu.” […]
Joyeuses Fêtes ! Happy Holidays!
Bonane na Noel!
Avec le Seigneur Tabu Ley Rochereau !
https://www.didiermary.fr/bonane-na-noel-bonnes-fetes-happy-holidays/
The Trance of Seven Colors
https://amf.didiermary.fr/trance-seven-colors/
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
#70smusic #Gnawa #Jazz #Morocco #OldAfricanMusic #PharoahSanders
Ngozi Family – Hold On
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ngozi-family-hold-on/
The song “Hold on” is part of “45,000 Volts”, originally released in 1977 by the Ngozi Family. It was a sharp cut, defining slice of Zamrock.
“Ngozi Family was one of the most prolific bands in Zambia at that time and rocketed to stardom in a period that is hailed as the golden age of […]
The Chisa Years (1965-1975)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-chisa-years-1965-1975/
The Chisa Years: 1965–1975 (Rare and Unreleased) is a compilation album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
The album consists of 14 rare or forgotten tracks recorded by Stewart Levine and Hugh Masekela from 1965 to 1975 when they ran their own Chisa Records label. […]
#60smusic #70smusic #Compilation #HughMasekela #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
The Funkees – Dancing Time
https://amf.didiermary.fr/funkees-dancing-time/
“The Funkees hit London in 1973 as the tightest, funkiest and most audacious bands to come out of Africa. Hardened by endless touring and an unrelenting battle with BLO and Monomono to be the best band in Nigeria, they were in prime musical condition, ready to finally lay down their first album. The result was […]
Super Mama Djombo – Sûr Di Nô Pubis
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-mama-djombo-suur-di-no-pubis/
“Sûr Di Nô Pubis” is from Super Mama Djombo‘s album “Na Cambança” at the end of the 70s.
The band was formed in the mid-1960s, at a Boy Scout camp, when the members were only children (the youngest was six years old)!
Djombo is the name of a spirit that many fighters appealed to for protection […]
Fela Kuti – Upside Down
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From the LP “Upside Down” released in 1976 (CD release 1997).
Sandra, the woman who stood by Fela and also brought him in contact with the Black Panther during his transformation years in the United States, came back to visit a highly popular and successful Fela in Nigeria in 1976.
The track was written by […]
Harry Mosco – For You Specially
https://amf.didiermary.fr/harry-mosco-funkees-specially/
The late Harry Mosco was the lead vocalist for legendary 1970s Nigerian afro-funk band The Funkees.
After unsuccessfully moving back to London, the group disbanded (after just four years) and Mosco released his first solo EP Specially For You in 1977.
At the time it received no commercial success. But it has been reissued.
The Free Music
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-free-music/
“The Free Music” est un album qui reprend neuf morceaux du groupe éponyme formé par l’artiste libyen Najib Al Housh, soigneusement choisis au sein de leur discographie de dix albums autoproduits à partir des années 1970, offrant un mélange unique entre funk, disco, soul et reggae…
Plus surprenante encore, cette reprise de "Stayin' Alive" des Bee Gees.
From the LP I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) released in 1979.
Fela and his political party Movement Of The People are banned from contesting Nigeria’s presidential election. Fela forms a new Afrika 70 and plays a comeback concert at the University of Ife. He also defies police opposition and opens a new Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, […]
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-international-thief-itt/
Fela Kuti – Gentleman (LP)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-gentleman-lp/
1973’s “Gentleman” is the 7th in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues.
Like Fela’s other early 70’s releases, he used each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism. Gentleman is the […]
Petelo Vicka et son Nzazi – Sungu Lubuka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/petelo-vicka-et-son-nzazi-sungu-lubuka/
En septembre 1974, le festival “Zaïre 74” avait fait monter la pression sur toute une génération de musiciens locaux, en les poussant à injecter une bonne dose de Funk dans la Rumba congolaise.
Dans la compilation Congo Funk!, on retrouve des groupes de Kinshasa et Brazzaville, tels que l’Orchestre OK Jazz et Les Bantous de [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Congo #Rumba #OldAfricanMusic
Fela Kuti – Mr Follow Follow
https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-mr-follow-follow/
Fela Kuti’s Mr Follow Follow was released in 1976/77 on the Zombie album.
The song is about those who allow themselves to be led blindly by others.
“…if you dey follow them book! Na inside cupboard you go quench!… Cockroach dey! Rat dey!… Na inside darkness you go dey! If you have to follow them books, […]
Mbaraka Mwinshehe – Mitindo Yetu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mbaraka-mwinshehe-mitindo-yetu/
Mwinshehe was the great Tanzanian guitarist and vocalist who thrilled East African audiences from 1965 to 1979 with the famous Morogoro Jazz Band and then with his own Orchestra Super Volcano. He tragically perished in an auto accident in January 1979. […]
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.
Tunji Oyelana - A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLsfENQU2UY
"Equal parts singer-songwriter, actor, bandleader, dramatist, comedian and academic, Oyelana elevated the realm of pop music by infusing it with the poetic storytelling of Yoruba folklore."
The story of Zamrock
https://amf.didiermary.fr/story-zamrock/
Discover the story of Zamrock, a music genre born in 1970s Zambia out of influences from James Brown’s funk and Jimi Hendrix’s acid guitar.
Seminal Zamrock groups such as Witch, Amanaz, 5 Revolutions, Ricky Banda, Ngozi Family, Oscillations, Fireballs, and Crossbones.
#70smusic #Documentary #Rock #Zambia #Zamrock #OldAfricanMusic
Spirits Rejoice – Electric Chicken
https://amf.didiermary.fr/spirits-rejoice-electric-chicken/
Spirits Rejoice drew together some of South Africa’s most abundantly talented and forward-thinking jazz players and created a complex and challenging jazz fusion that shifted the terms of South Africa’s engagement with jazz towards new music being made by pioneers such as Chick Corea, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and others. [...]
Antoine Dougbé & Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/antoine-dougbe-poly-rythmo/
Who was Antoine Dougbé? Even the most dedicated crate-digger might go their whole life without stumbling across any of the three LPs he released in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Yet all the musicians who happened to cross paths with him remember him with a mixture of admiration and fear; for Antoine Dougbé was […]
Yehouessi Leopold & T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo: Volume 4
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yehouessi-leopold-poly-rythmo/
The T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou was formed in 1966. Their output has been extremely prolific numbering upwards of 50 LPs and a hundred 45s. Here’s an album with Yehouessi Leopold (drummer) from 1978, that was rereleased in 2021.
Douala by Night
https://amf.didiermary.fr/douala-by-night/
“Douala by Night” est un excellent AfroJazzFunk de la fin des années 70, dernière piste de l’album “J.M. Tim & Foty” de Jean Marie Tiam (aka Tim) et Maurice Foty (décédé en 2011). L’album est paru en 1977. […]
