Les Mangelepa – Nyako Konya
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Nairobi, Kenya, 1978. The popular Congolese Rumba band Les Mangelepa is finishing a session. Things are going well: they have recorded all the music they planned and still have an hour to kill before giving back the studio keys. How about improvising one last song on the spot?
And this is how ‘Nyako Konya’ was born. […]
Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga
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Na Kozonga comes from the Lingala word meaning “I’m returning”. After having travelled the world and seen so much, Jupiter returns among his family, “In Afrika”. But this journey becomes more metaphysical than a simple visit…
Hailing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afropop, funk, rock and jazz outfit Jupiter & Okwess returns [...]
Pogo – Joburg Jam
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pogo-joburg-jam/
Joburg Jam is a remix or rhythmic collage of sights and sounds of Johannesburg in South Africa by Pogo. The single was released in 2013.
The internationally recognized Australian music producer and remix artist visited Johannesburg to try to make music from real life scenes. This is the result. Pogo, from Perth in Australia, is […]
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. […]
Mombasa – Kenia (remixed)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mombasa-kenia-remixed/
Essential and hard to find album with tons of true killer Afro Funk breaks.
Classic and sought after Afro Jazz Reissue of original debut LP by African jazz band “Mombasa” led by Lou Blackburn and recorded in 1975 at Cornet studio […]
Hugh Masekela – Don’t Go Lose It Baby
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/
The original version of “Don’t Go Lose It Baby”, here in a remixed version, comes from Masekela’s Techno-Bush album in 1984.
Hugh Masekala and the Medu Art Ensemble offer via their album Techno-Bush an Afro-futurist vision of South Africa. Protesting through sound and dance, after returning [...]
#80smusic #FullAlbum #Mbaqanga #Remixed #SouthAfrica #Electro
Bantu Spaceship
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bantu-spaceship/
Bantu Spaceship will have listeners embark on a journey. A journey that feels like you are being taken through a portal into another time, Afrofuturism.
Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza, the craftsman behind sound production, is no stranger to providing out-of-this-world audio scenes, while Ulenni Okandlovu serves as the voice guiding us by way of Ndebele chants, […]
Femi Kuti – Beng Beng Beng remixed
https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-beng-beng-beng-remixed/
From the album “Shoki Shoki” by Femi Kuti released in 1998, “Beng Beng Beng” was a staple of MTV and got a special treatment with multiple remixed versions.
Nigeria’s military government banned the album’s second track, “Beng beng beng”, due to its objections to the sexual subject matter. […]
Mo DJ – Amadou & Mariam remixed (2008)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mo-dj-amadou-mariam-welcome-mali-remixed/
“Amadou & Mariam remixed” is an “old gift” in 2008 by my friend Mo DJ (Morike Keita).
He sent me this 1+ hour mix of old tracks, for the release of Amadou & Mariam‘s Welcome to Mali. […]
Siji – Children of the Sun (Yoruba Soul Remix)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/siji-children-sun-yoruba-soul-remix/
“Children of the sun lift your heads up to the skies”.
According to the Yoruba, “Omo l’ere aiye”. This means a child is life’s ultimate reward. Regardless of what others might say, I truly believe that children are the future of our world for they hold the key to tomorrow’s promise for a bigger, better […]
Alsarah & The Nubatones – Soukura
https://amf.didiermary.fr/alsarah-nubatones-soukura/
“Silt”, released in 2014, is the debut album of Alsarah & the Nubatones. Alsarah, is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever stifling regime in her […]
Muthoni Drummer Queen – Nai Ni Ya Who
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mdq-upgraded-muthoni-drummer-queen-nai-ni-ya-who/
From album “MDQ Upgraded” in 2015.
Aslo: Remixed Feat. Wyclef Jean & Navio
Momo – Digital Garab
https://amf.didiermary.fr/momo-digital-garab/
Momo stands for “Music of Moroccan Origin,” mixing their North African origins and their UK life into “DaR music,” their futuristic Digital and Roots style, a blend between dance sounds (house, garage, techno and breakbeat) and traditional Moroccan music, reflecting the multi-identity of Momo’s band [...]
Cerrone’s Funk Makossa Feat. Manu Dibango
https://amf.didiermary.fr/funk-makossa-cerrone-manu-dibango/
Funk Makossa is from Cerrone’s “Afro” album in 2016, that includes 3 tracks (one with Tony Allen and a second one featuring Manu Dibango) + 3 remixes.
Guedra Guedra – Mutant
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mutant-tamayyurt-guedra-guedra/
Traditional Moroccan music remixed creatively and without limits…
Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak, aka Guedra Guedra, will release his second album, MUTANT, in a few days, with carefully sculpted dance rhythms, created with analogue synths and drum machines, blended in field recordings from across Africa.
“Tamayyurt” (full moon in Amazigh) is a collaboration with Amazigh [...]
Ivory Coast Soul
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ivory-coast-soul/
“Ivory Coast Soul – Afro Funk From Abidjan from 1972 to 1982” is a compilation released in 2010 on 2 vinyl LPs.
Volume 2 was released in 2012 and covers music produced […]
#70smusic #80smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #CôteDIvoire #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic
David Walters – Bwè Dlo Feat. Seun Kuti
https://amf.didiermary.fr/david-walters-bwe-dlo-seun-kuti/
From album “Soleil Kréyol” by David Walters in 2020.
“Creole Soul!” Two words are enough for David Walters to qualify his music. The exclamation point to support radicalism and faith in its purpose.
A lapidary definition behind the doors of which hides the maze of a culture that crosses the oceans, connects continents and islands by […]
Sir Victor Uwaifo – Ohue (Edit)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sir-victor-uwaifo-ohue/
From “Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque” in 2011, one of Edo Funk classics revisited: Ohue “Frankie Francis & Simbad Edit” by Sir Victor Uwaifo.
Also available on “Sofrito Super Single – Benin City Grooves” with a revisited version of Sonny Okusun Ozziddi’s Odenigbo.
DJ Malvado – Zenze Feat. Eddy Tussa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djmalvado-zenze-eddy-tussa/
DJ Malvado is a DJ, producer and artist who brings the rhythms of Africa to the world: Afro House, Afrobeat, Kizomba and unique fusions inspired by the roots of the Portuguese-speaking African countries.
“Zenze” is a track released in 2012, and remixed multiple times since. It features Eddy Tussa, a well known Angolan singer.
Seinabo Sey – Younger
https://amf.didiermary.fr/seinabo-sey-younger/
The debut single by the Swedish-Gambian Pop-Soul singer Seinabo Sey, released in November 2013.
Jimmy Dludlu – Tote
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jimmy-dludlu-tote/
Jimmy Dludlu (1966) is a jazz musician born in Maputo, who grew up in Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe and started playing guitar at 13 years old when he taught himself with a homemade guitar.
Praktika – Fôli Folle Feat. Ko Saba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/praktika-foli-folle-ko-saba/
Ko Saba est une formation malienne de 6 musiciens de différentes couches sociales, fédérée par Barou Diassana, qui propose de la musique tradi-moderne métissée.
“Fôli” veut dire “musique” en Bambara. Aïda, jeune femme malienne amoureuse de danse contemporaine se retrouve embarquée dans une course effrénée dans les rues de Bamako. [...]
Bandé-Gamboa – Pé di bissilon (Horizonte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/horizonte-bande-gamboa-pe-di-bissilon-remix/
Originally, the record Horizonte brought together artists from Lisbon’s African scene (under the name Bandé-Gamboa), to celebrate gumbé and funaná. These 2 genres form the musical heritage of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, repressed during the Portuguese colonial era.
On this remix, Detroit Swindle keep the African spirit of the original track alive, mixing it [...]
Oumou Sangaré – Ah Ndiyah (remixed)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-boddhi-satva-ah-ndiyah/
“Boddhi Satva’s Ancestral Soul mix” of Oumou Sangaré’s “Ah Ndiyah,” original song from her first album Moussolou. See also in duo with Bela Fleck.
Oumou Sangaré – Minata Waraba (Sampha Remix)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-minata-waraba-sampha-remix/
Sampha has remixed the “Minata Waraba” track of Oumou Sangaré’s latest album Mogoya. This version appears on a special remixed LP released in 2018.
