Les Belgicains
https://amf.didiermary.fr/les-belgicains/
The compilation “Les Belgicains – Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-1970” (‘Les Belgicains’ during the time of Covadia 1964-1970) tells the remarkable story of the first Congolese student orchestras in Belgium.
During that time Congolese referred to countrymen living in Belgium as ‘Les Belgicains’. The music presented on this compilation blew a new, fresh wind through […]
LÉVE LÉVE Vol. 1 & 2
https://amf.didiermary.fr/leve-leve-vol-1-2-sao-tome-principe/
2 compilations focusing on the golden age of São Tomé & Principe Sounds in the 70s and 80s.
The two Portuguese-speaking African islands of São Tomé & Principe, located in the Gulf of Guinea, created an unique music called Puxa : a refined mixture of various musical components from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. […]
Dur-Dur Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dur-dur-band/
The first studio album of its kind since the golden days of Mogadishu came to a halt three decades ago. Glamorous discos and beachfront stages disappeared as the city was bombed to the ground. Like a sleeping giant patiently awaiting its revival, we can finally hear a new recording by the living representatives of that […]
Air Volta – Volta Jazz
https://amf.didiermary.fr/air-volta-volta-jazz/
Volta Jazz is a music group originating from the city of Bobo-Dioulasso. Created in 1964, it is one of the very first modern orchestras of Upper Volta, present day Burkina Faso.
Air Volta is a compilation, in 2022, combining many songs released as 7″ vinyls. Combining Congolese rumba, American R&B, French yé-yé, Cuban salsa and [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #BurkinaFaso #Compilation #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic
Pat Thomas & The Sweet Beans – Revolution
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pat-thomas-sweet-beans-revolution/
Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa,” here’s Pat Thomas’ first full career retrospective, “Coming Home,” covering his career from his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the “burger highlife” movement of the early ‘80s.
Growing up with music around him (“my uncle, [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic #Reggae
Trésor Magnétique – Francis Bebey
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tresor-magnetique-francis-bebey/
Francis Bebey was a true musical trailblazer. An artist who refused to choose between past and future, tradition and technology. Born in Cameroon and educated in Paris, Bebey carved a path all his own, blending pygmy flutes and thumb pianos with drum machines, tape loops, and synthesizers long before such hybrids became common. With this […]
Alefa Madagascar
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salegy-alefa-madagascar/
“Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984,” the first compilation to document the unique music culture on the island during the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Originating as far back as the 15th Century through folkloric ceremonial music and an a cappella chanting style called antsa, salegy emerged as a fast-tempoed local dance […]
#70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #IndianOcean #Madagascar #Soukous
Africa Funk – The Original Sound of 70’s
https://amf.didiermary.fr/africafunk-original-sound-70s/
Both these Africa Funk compilations collect African music from many artists’ standout tracks to make you dance till the end of night… No contest, some are clear dance floor fillers if your audience is ready…
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #FullAlbum #OldAfricanMusic
The Mixed Grill – A Brand New Wayo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-mixed-grill-brand-new-wayo/
“Brand New Wayo – Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983”, 15 pulsing Nigerian boogie tracks on a 2xLP compilation, released in 2011.
The years between 1979 and 1983 were Nigeria’s Second Republic, when democracy finally returned after 23 years of uninterrupted military dictatorship. It was also Nigeria’s oil boom era. [...]
OK Jazz – Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ok-jazz-tcha-tcha-tcha-de-mi-amor/
This song “Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor” appears on Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos 1955-62 – a compilation that explores the Congolese rumba explosion.
“A look at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960. Congolese rumba, a […]
Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gnonnas-pedro-dadjes-dadje-von-o-von-non/
Gnonnas Pedro [with or without his Dadjes band] had always excelled in many styles of music but if one had to associate him with a particular genre it would be Agbadja. Agbadja is a rhythm hugely popular in Togo, Benin and Ghana. Its based […]
#60smusic #70smusic #AfroCuban #AfroFunk #Agbadja #Bénin #Compilation #GnonnasPedro
Burger Highlife
https://amf.didiermary.fr/burger-highlife/
The first ever compilations focussing on the phenomenon of “Burger Highlife”, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond.
The 1970s had witnessed an increased Western airtime and physical presence in Ghana introducing funk, soul and disco sounds [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
Essiebons Special 73-84
https://amf.didiermary.fr/essiebons-special-73-84/
In Ghana, few labels are as influential as Essiebons, the “Ghana Music Power House.” Founded by the producer and businessman Dick Essilfie-Bondzie, its catalog features sterling work from number of modern highlife legends.
For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
Fela Kuti – Waka Waka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/waka-waka-fela-ransome-kuti/
“Waka Waka” and “Se E Tun De” on this 45T from the sixties by Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos.
There’s a live version on the 3-disc set Highlife: Jazz and AfroSoul (1963-1969) below.
A collection of recordings made between 1963 and 1969 that provide unique insight into the beginnings of Kuti’s craft. […]
#60smusic #Compilation #FelaKuti #Highlife #Jazz #Nigeria #AfroJazz
Nigeria Disco Funk Special
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nigeria-disco-funk-special/
“Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79” is a compilation released in 2008.
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roots-rocking-zimbabwe/
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980
In the early 1970s, the townships of the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury (which would become Harare upon Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980), were buzzing with new sounds from diverse backgrounds. Bands began to fuse Anglo-Saxon rock, Congolese rumba, South African Mbaqanga, Soul, and [...]
The Original Sound Of Mali
https://amf.didiermary.fr/original-sound-mali-compilations/
The two compilations “Original Sound Of Mali” offer a selection of songs from across the country in the 70s.
Following Mali’s independence, after ten years of maturation, the 1970s saw modern Malian culture revealed to the world through musical anthologies and overviews of national and regional productions. It was a remarkably fertile period of the […]
African Electronic Diaspora: Black Lives Matter
https://rebeluprecords.bandcamp.com/album/african-electronic-diaspora-black-lives-matter
The aim of this compilation is to raise funds for various (inter)national NGO’s, anti-racism advocacy groups and organisations of black initiative, with all proceedings to be donated to these causes.
(compilation - 2020)
Club Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/club-africa-compilation/
Club Africa is the name of 2 compilations of “Hard African Funk, Afro-Jazz And Original Afro-Beat” released in 1999 and 2000.
70s & 80s Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kenyan-benga-afro-cuban-rumba-70s-80s/
Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba playlist from the 3-LP set from Soundway Records’ release “Kenya Special – Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and ’80s”. There’s also a second volume with tracks from the same period. [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroCuban #Benga #Compilation #Kenya #Rumba
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
https://amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, mbaqanga, […]
Musique de Fëte
https://amf.didiermary.fr/musique-de-fete/
The “Musique de Fëte” collective was started by Nowadays Records and the producer KasbaH to spotlight the electronic Eastern scene through a series of mixtapes and parties in Europe and the Maghreb.
With Musique de Fëte Vol. 4, a meticulously curated compilation by KasbaH, the artist continues his exploration of Maghreb and Middle Eastern sounds […]
Bankolo Miziki – Masters of Congolese Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bankolo-miziki-wendo-alongwi-kinshasa/
Bankolo Miziki (“Masters of Music” in Lingala), subtitled “Les Pionniers de la Musique Congolaise de Leopoldville à Kinshasa” (Pioneers of Congolese Music from Leopoldville to Kinshasa) is a series of 3 compilations (anthology of sort) with multiple artists / pioneers of Congolese Rumba in the 50s. [...]
#50smusic #70smusic #Compilation #Congo #FullAlbum #Rumba #OldAfricanMusic
Doing It In Lagos
https://amf.didiermary.fr/doing-lagos-boogie-pop-disco/
Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980’s Nigeria
#80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #FullAlbum #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic
