Babatunde Olatunji – Akiwowo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/babatunde-olatunji-akiwowo/
Et si vous pensez avoir déjà entendu cette musique chez Gainsbourg, c’est normal… il avait “un peu” emprunté Akiwowo à Babatunde Olatunji (sans le dire, ni créditer qui que soit, donc plagiat) pour un de ses albums…
Two Niles to Sing a Melody
https://amf.didiermary.fr/two-niles-sing-melody-sudan/
“Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan” is a journey through the golden age of Sudanese music and a restoration of this forgotten heritage. […]
Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hailu-mergia-walias-band/
The first full length album by The Walias Band & Hailu Mergia, recorded and released in 1975 by the band’s own label.
At Zula Club he and his mates formed Walias Band and did something no other band in Ethiopian nightclub history had done: they started buying their own musical instruments. Until then the club […]
Grace Decca – Munyenge
https://amf.didiermary.fr/grace-decca-munyenge/
Grace Decca (Ndom’a Deccah Grace) is a Cameroonian singer from Douala, the younger sister of Ben Decca, a well-known Makossa singer. She performed alongside her brother between 1984 and 1989, before starting her own solo career.
Doï La Mulema is an EP, her second album, released in 1993.
Thirteen years after her last release, she […]
Djelimady Tounkara – Fanta Bourama
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djelimady-tounkara-fanta-bourama/
One of Africa’s most admired guitarists, the virtuosic Tounkara was the longtime lead player in the Rail Band (a.k.a. Super Rail Band), a popular Malian group that was born out of Africa’s midcentury craze for Latin music. On “Fanta Bourama,” a sparkling acoustic track, Tounkara plays a romantic, flamenco-style lead, showing off his chops for […]
Yoruba Women Of The Drum
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Not a lot of information on this album from 1995 with Madam Comfort Omoge and Madam Mujidat Ogunfala, called ”Yoruba Women Of The Drum”. It’s best to listen to it…
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music […]
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Nguenang – Wouck
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Cameroonian singer, arranger and composer N’guenang Myke Maurice aka Nguenang recorded his album Doty Gouock in 1980 in Abidjan.
Nigeria Soul Power 70
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Compilation “Nigeria Soul Power 70 (Afro-Funk ★ Afro-Rock ★ Afro-Disco)” […]
Bobo Yéyé – Belle Epoque in Upper Volta
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bobo-yeye-belle-epoque-in-upper-volta/
Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta is a compilation available as a 3-disc, 37-song box set.
Burkina Faso was called The Republic of Upper Volta. Then came Thomas Sankara. During this period of cultural revolution, in the ’60s and ’70s, the nation exploded with new bands and sounds, mainly across its large cities. Centered […]
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… […]
Cameroon Garage Funk
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cameroon-garage-funk/
“Cameroon Garage Funk” is a compilation of “obscure” tracks from 1964 to 1979.
Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper […]
