My new video is published on YouTube and my PeerTube channel.
I put gripes to music.
YouTube:
PeerTube:
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Up late? Or early? Is it mid-afternoon where you are?
New music, hot off the mixer and video editor!
New music video from me!
Also available at my PeerTube site:
Stop the presses! New Music Video from me!
I really like this lead, so I left it in where usually I wouldn't. What do you think?
I've released another music video!
This is another with lyrics based on a poem by @atomic
Available at my PeerTube site:
https://video.stevesworld.co/w/7a7ofVran8GW34tVSraiPz
#music #MusicVideo #poem #poetry #rock #AlternativeRock #pop
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New music!!
Lyrics by @ai6yr and @[email protected] but I am responsible for everything else, lol.
This song is based on 3 posts in a mastodon thread.
https://video.stevesworld.co/w/fwBDpkJDurSEimxiR4ycau
#rock #funk #pop #music #NewMusic #MastodonMusic #Mastodon #MusicProduction
Onipa – Open my Eyes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-open-my-eyes/
Onipa’s debut single “Open My Eyes” sets the tone for their high octane fusion of styles, weaving together Congolese guitars lines, disco drums, synth bass and K.O.G’s distinctive pidgin rap. The song tells us how in a world full of confusion and distraction, we sometimes need to look inside ourselves for the answers. […]
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New music video just dropped!! It's about one of the greatest threats facing humanity!!!! I may run out of exclamation points!!!!!!! This is serious, people!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Another Fediverse production featuring lyrics by @atomic. You know that verse is good. It's Fediverse.
Takeifa Band – Supporter
https://amf.didiermary.fr/takeifa-band-supporter/
If you walk through the streets of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, and ask one of the locals where the Keita siblings live, you will soon get an answer, because the Takeifa Band around its founder and lead vocalist Jac Keita have long been a musical institution in Senegal, their home country.
The cohesion of the […]
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Mystery of the lost Mandela song
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mystery-lost-mandela-song/
Shortly after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, a South African equivalent of "We Are the World" was recorded to celebrate Madiba’s freedom. But the song and the video sank without a trace. Here, for the first time, the video maker tells the secret history of "The People Want Mandela" and how it […]
Edited 361d ago
Mamani Keita – Gagner l’Argent Français
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mamani-keita-gagner-argent-francais/
“Gagner l’argent français” est un morceau qui parle de la difficulté des immigrés des pays du Sud dans les pays d’Europe, quelle que soit la corporation dans laquelle ils travaillent. Leur ressource économique vient principalement des petits boulots, donc des boulots pénibles (ménages, restauration, bâtiments…..). Un message destiné à la jeunesse africaine, selon lequel [...]
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RIP Thomas Chibade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-thomas-chibade/
One of Malawi‘s biggest music stars, Thomas Chibade, dead at the age of 37 in October 2023. His compositions, between Reggae and AfroPop, were popular among young Malawians.
He started his carrer in the early 2000s with his album “Zatukusira”, a Chichewa word which could be translated as “It has come out”. […]
Edited 359d ago
BLK JKS – Harare
https://amf.didiermary.fr/blk-jks-harare/
The band BLK JKS came back after a 10-years hiatus, with their album “Abantu / Before Humans” in 2021 and a documentary.
"They are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a […]
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The Parlotones – Overexposed
https://amf.didiermary.fr/parlotones-overexposed-2008/
I probably discovered the Parlotones at one of the annual Midem exhibitions I attended.
The song “Overexposed” is from their second album “Radiocontrolledrobot” released in 2005 in South Africa and again in 2007 with an international version with less tracks.
The Parlotones are a renowned South African indie rock band hailing from Johannesburg, formed in 1998. […]
Edited 355d ago
Zolani Mahola – The One Who Sings
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zolani-mahola-the-one-who-sings/
Lead singer Zolani Mahola left Freshlyground to go solo in 2019. South African singer, actress, storyteller and inspiration speaker, she is now also known under the stage name “The One Who Sings,” after the title of her one-woman play based on her life. She won the prestigious Fleur Du Cap award as “Best Actress.” […]
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Idylle Mamba – Sango & Vous
https://amf.didiermary.fr/idylle-mamba-sango/
Idylle Mamba with her first maxi single and video clip “Sango & Vous” (2010), hymn to her native tongue, from her studio album “Bêkou” (Hope in Sango) released in 2013.
I met Idylle Mamba in 2010 (or 2011) in Douala for a Festival.
In 2014, she was one of the 10 finalists in RFI/France 24 “Prix […]
Edited 53d ago
Pop Makossa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pop-makossa/
Compilation “Pop Makossa – The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon (1976-1984)”
[…] all the tracks are a revelation. The beat that holds everything together has its origins in the rhythms of the Sawa people; Ambassey, Bolobo, Assiko and Essewé, a traditional funeral dance. But it wasn’t until these rhythms arrived in the cities of Cameroon […]
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RNB/HIPHOP/EDM/POP Playlist
https://amf.didiermary.fr/playlist-rnb-hiphop-edm-pop/
Haven't updated it for quite some time, but with 100+ tracks, this playlist should keep your ears busy for a while...
#RnB #HipHop #Pop #EDM #Electro #AfricanMusic #Playlist #MastoMusic
Dark Suburb – The Awakening
https://amf.didiermary.fr/awakening-dark-suburb/
Dark Suburb is an alt-rock band from Ghana. They started their musical journey in 2015.
Despite their intimidating stage personas, the band advocates a social perspective that looks beyond the confines of Ghana’s highly class-, gender-, and ethnicity-structured society. The “We are all skeletons” slogan looks to bones, not as symbols of death and warning, […]
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Weeping – Bright Blue
https://amf.didiermary.fr/weeping-bright-blue/
One of the anthems of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, “Weeping” was recorded in 1987 by Cape Town group Bright Blue.
It doesn’t matter now
It’s over anyhow
He tells the world that it’s sleeping
But as the night came round
I heard it slowly sound
It wasn’t roaring, it was weeping …
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Franck Biyong – Liyomba Church
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franck-biyong-liyomba-church/
Franck Biyong‘s “Liyomba Church” (2016) is Afro-Jazzy-Pop-Electro-Rock from Cameroon…
The track opens with high-energy screeches and thumps that won’t let you go. It’s a fervent and unabashed call to dance, an astonishing afro/pop crossover aiming for the clubs.
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James BKS – Wetin U Go Choose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-L1zuSpKQ
Son of Afro-Jazz legend Manu Dibango.
More on AMF:
- https://amf.didiermary.fr/james-bks-kwele/
- https://amf.didiermary.fr/james-bks-jungle-go-dumb-feat-will-i-am/
Just A Band – Probably For Lovers
https://amf.didiermary.fr/just-a-band-probably-for-lovers/
Just A Band put out this DIY video for their song “Probably For Lovers”, from their third album “Sorry For The Delay”, released in 2012. The footage for the video was shot by the many friends and fans of the band – on their phones!
“We are Just A Band, and this is our third […]
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Niniola Feat. Femi Kuti – Fantasy
https://amf.didiermary.fr/niniola-femi-kuti-fantasy/
Niniola is a Nigerian singer and songwriter, the “Queen of Afro-House.” She participated in the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa in 2013 and was nominated for “Most Promising Act to Watch” at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.
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Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/beautiful-africa-rokia-traore/
From Rokia Traoré‘s eponym album “Beautiful Africa”, her 5th, released in 2013, with Rock influences.
On Beautiful Africa, Malian songwriter and guitar slinger Rokia Traoré unleashes the fiery rocker she’s been nurturing since her teens. On four previous offerings she established herself as a wildly inventive and diverse […]
Edited 237d ago