afrobeat

<p>Danish instrumental sextet Sunbörn join forces with acclaimed Italian producer/DJ Clap! Clap! for a boundary-blurring, vibrant celebration of global culture and sonic fusion.</p><p>Blending Afrobeat, Middle Eastern textures, jazz harmonies, and electronic dance music, the project weaves a high-energy soundscape of hypnotic grooves and soaring melodies.</p><p><a href="https://sunbrnmeetsclapclap.bandcamp.com/album/earth-is-begging" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sunbrnmeetsclapclap.bandcamp.com/album/earth-is-begging"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunbrnmeetsclapclap.bandcamp.c</span><span class="invisible">om/album/earth-is-begging</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/electro/" rel="tag">#Electro</a></p>

<p>Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra – Witam, witam<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-sDIXEVD8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-sDIXEVD8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-sDI</span><span class="invisible">XEVD8</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a></p>

<p>Fela, Music &amp; Revolution</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/qotd-fela-kuti-music-revolution/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/qotd-fela-kuti-music-revolution/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/qotd-fela-ku</span><span class="invisible">ti-music-revolution/</span></a></p><p>In Africa, music cannot be for enjoyment.<br>Music has to be for revolution.<br>Fela Kuti</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/qotd/" rel="tag">#QOTD</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a> <a href="/tags/quote/" rel="tag">#Quote</a></p>

<p>Femi Kuti – One People One World</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/one-people-one-world-femi-kuti/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/one-people-one-world-femi-kuti/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/one-people-o</span><span class="invisible">ne-world-femi-kuti/</span></a></p><p>“One People One World” est un album de Femi Kuti sorti en février 2018.</p><p>&quot;Femi Kuti est le cœur et l’âme de l’Afrobeat moderne.<br>Créé par Fela, l’Afrobeat a poussé plusieurs générations de musiciens à utiliser, au Nigeria et dans le monde, la musique comme arme pour se battre pour la justice et la liberté. […]&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>If you like podcasts, here&#x27;s one for you:</p><p>Fela Kuti: Fear No Man podcast review — epic portrait of the Afrobeat pioneer<br>Wide-ranging new series explores the Nigerian musician’s life, loves and rebel politics<br><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2737c238-9bea-4e2e-a4e1-7d8f943ebd99" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ft.com/content/2737c238-9bea-4e2e-a4e1-7d8f943ebd99"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ft.com/content/2737c238-9b</span><span class="invisible">ea-4e2e-a4e1-7d8f943ebd99</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#Podcast</a></p>

<p>Fela Kuti – Open and Close (LP – 1971)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-open-and-close-lp-1971/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-open-and-close-lp-1971/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-op</span><span class="invisible">en-and-close-lp-1971/</span></a></p><p>Fela’s Afrobeat song called Open &amp; Close – a dance choreography with a lot of African vitality. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>

<p>Oluko Imo – Were Oju Le</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/oluko-imo-were-oju-le/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/oluko-imo-were-oju-le/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/oluko-imo-we</span><span class="invisible">re-oju-le/</span></a></p><p>Caribbean Afrobeat? Oluko Imo, a multi-instrumentalist from Trinidad and Tobago, leader of the Black Truth Rhythm Band, settled in New York in the 1980s. It was during this period that he recorded “Were Oju Le” (The Eyes Are Getting Red) with the genre’s legend, Fela Kuti and his son Femi.</p><p>This nearly nine-minute track, a […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>

<p>Listen to the Master: Fela Kuti</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/listen-to-the-master-afrobeat-fela-kuti/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/listen-to-the-master-afrobeat-fela-kuti/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/listen-to-th</span><span class="invisible">e-master-afrobeat-fela-kuti/</span></a></p><p>Listen to the Master: a compilation of Afrobeat’s Maverick founder Fela Kuti in 2013 on a carefully curated collection of seminal Classics, “The Best Of The Black President 2“.</p><p>Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti passed away in 1997 but his legacy lives on, thanks to his still relevant, forthright political views and […]</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Tony Allen – The Source</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/tony-allen-source/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/tony-allen-source/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/tony-allen-s</span><span class="invisible">ource/</span></a></p><p>Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70.</p><p>In 2017, he released 2 albums via Blue Note, a tribute EP to Art Blakey and […]</p><p><a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/tonyallen/" rel="tag">#TonyAllen</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust/" rel="tag">#Blaugust</a></p>

<p>Seun Kuti &amp; Egypt80 - Stand Well Well (Grand Stand Version) feat. POS of De La Soul</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYihi4FHRMc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYihi4FHRMc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYihi4</span><span class="invisible">FHRMc</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/hiphop/" rel="tag">#HipHop</a></p>

<p>Tabansi Studio Band</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/tabansi-studio-band/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/tabansi-studio-band/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/tabansi-stud</span><span class="invisible">io-band/</span></a></p><p>Tabansi Studio Band – Wakar Alhazai Kano &amp; Mus’En Sofua: four incredible tracks of late-70s/early 80s Afrobeat (almost-undiscovered) magic, but not Fela’s Yoruba/Pidgin Afrobeat.</p><p>This is Igbo and Hausa Afrobeat, a very different style…<br>Enjoy!</p><p>The beats are laid down by the seven legendary Martin Brothers —of ‘Money’ fame— whilst vocals are courtesy of a multi-lingual […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>

<p>Seun Kuti Feat. Carlos Santana – Black Times</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/seun-kuti-carlos-santana-black-times/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/seun-kuti-carlos-santana-black-times/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/seun-kuti-ca</span><span class="invisible">rlos-santana-black-times/</span></a></p><p>Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has been carrying his father’s politically fiery and undyingly funky torch into the present day. With his band Egypt 80, the single off the album released in 2018, both titled “Black Times,” is a collaboration with the famed guitarist Carlos Santana. Seun describes his record as “an […]</p><p><a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>

<p>Afro Super-Feelings led by Segun Okeji</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/afro-super-feelings-segun-okeji/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/afro-super-feelings-segun-okeji/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/afro-super-f</span><span class="invisible">eelings-segun-okeji/</span></a></p><p>Afrobeat Disco/Funk from the vault… A 2-track LP Afro Super-Feelings Led By Segun Okeji released in 1970.</p><p>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.</p><p>Segun Okeji was the tenor sax player in Fela Kuti‘s Koola Lobitos band […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/disco/" rel="tag">#Disco</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Baloji – Buy Africa</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orchestre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orchestre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orche</span><span class="invisible">stre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/</span></a></p><p>“Buy Africa” is a cover of Fela Kuti’s song by Baloji &amp; L’Orchestre de la Katuba, Feat. Kuku for Red Hot + Fela, the tribute album released in 2013.</p><p>To understand where Fela’s musical quest began, you have to start with his education at London’s Trinity College School of Music. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/congo/" rel="tag">#Congo</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/hiphop/" rel="tag">#HipHop</a></p>

<p>A video essay on Fela Kuti, Nigeria’s most political musical icon, directed by Akinola Davies Jr, including interviews with Seun &amp; Femi Kuti.<br>Spoken word and music by Nigerian musician Obongjayar.</p><p>&quot;The death of his mum too really broke him.&quot;</p><p>One Day Go Be One Day<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWFBcjfY0M" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWFBcjfY0M"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWFBc</span><span class="invisible">jfY0M</span></a></p><p>&quot;Death is not Silence&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a></p>

<p>Fela Kuti – Why Black Man Dey Suffer</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-why-black-man-dey-suffer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-why-black-man-dey-suffer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-wh</span><span class="invisible">y-black-man-dey-suffer/</span></a></p><p>Why Black Man Dey Suffer – LP (1971)<br>Listen to Sir Paul McCartney remembering this song played live at the Shrine.</p><p>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 […] </p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a></p>

<p>Love &amp; Revolution (Cinnamon Version) · Seun Kuti · Egypt 80 · Adi Oasis<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9EZPya4TQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9EZPya4TQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9EZP</span><span class="invisible">ya4TQ</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Ambolley – Simigwa</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-simigwa/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-simigwa/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim</span><span class="invisible">igwa/</span></a></p><p>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.</p><p>Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/ghana/" rel="tag">#Ghana</a> <a href="/tags/highlife/" rel="tag">#Highlife</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#AfroBeat</a></p>

<p>Lester Bowie – For Fela</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie-for-fela/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/lester-bowie</span><span class="invisible">-for-fela/</span></a></p><p>Lester Bowie spent 6 months in Lagos with Fela Kuti in 1977.</p><p>The original version is on the LP “African Children”, released in 1978. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Paris DJs – Summer 2013</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-playlist-summer-2013/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-playlist-summer-2013/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/paris-djs-pl</span><span class="invisible">aylist-summer-2013/</span></a></p><p>Paris DJs is a Paris-based production team (Djouls, Grant Phabao, Loik Dury &amp; 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.</p><p>Playlist includes Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Muyiwa Kunnuji.</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/guinea/" rel="tag">#Guinea</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/soundcloud/" rel="tag">#Soundcloud</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Femi Kuti – As We Struggle Everyday (Edit)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-struggle-everyday/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-struggle-everyday/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-st</span><span class="invisible">ruggle-everyday/</span></a></p><p>“As We Struggle Everyday” is taken from the album Legacy +, that includes a full album by Femi (Stop The Hate) and one by his son Made, titled For(e)ward.</p><p>&quot;Legendary activist and Afrobeat originator, Fela Kuti, used his music to lament social injustices and political corruption in his native Nigeria. Fela’s legacy spans decades and […]&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Africa Is The Future – Kologbo</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/africa-future-kologbo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/africa-future-kologbo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/africa-futur</span><span class="invisible">e-kologbo/</span></a></p><p>Guitar legend Oghene Kologbo was born in Warri, Nigeria in 1957. His father was the well known highlife musician Joe King Kologbo. When Kologbo was a teenager, he began performing with the revolutionary Afrobeat master Fela Kuti. Kologbo went on to record more than 50 sides with Africa 70. He played the hypnotic tenor guitar […]</p><p><a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Femi Kuti – The World is Changing</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-world-changing/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-world-changing/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-wo</span><span class="invisible">rld-changing/</span></a></p><p>Femi Kuti released his 8th album “No Place for My Dream” in 2013, with the single “The World is Changing”, three years after “Africa For Africa”.</p><p>Poverty is winning the game…<br>Are you ready to fight?</p><p><a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Muyiwa Kunnuji &amp; Osemako</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/muyiwa-kunnuji-osemako/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/muyiwa-kunnuji-osemako/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/muyiwa-kunnu</span><span class="invisible">ji-osemako/</span></a></p><p>Baptized into the style of the precursors of 50s to 90s, Muyiwa Kunnuji is influenced by Afrobeat, Highlife, the Yoruba &amp; Ogu rhythms, Jazz, Blues, Gospel.<br>Muyiwa, a self-taught trumpeter, has played with Fela Kuti, later on Seun Kuti &amp; Egypt 80, Tony Allen &amp; many other bands of note. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/soundcloud/" rel="tag">#Soundcloud</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>

<p>Fela Kuti – Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-teacher-nonsense-live/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-teacher-nonsense-live/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/fela-kuti-te</span><span class="invisible">acher-nonsense-live/</span></a></p><p>Fela Anikulapo Kuti (and young Femi on sax) with Egypt 80: “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” live in England, at Glastonbury in 1984.</p><p><a href="/tags/felakuti/" rel="tag">#FelaKuti</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/nigeria/" rel="tag">#Nigeria</a> <a href="/tags/afrobeat/" rel="tag">#Afrobeat</a></p>