Bulawayo Jazz 🔗
RSS Club only! In no book of jazz history will you find any mention, let alone a chapter, about an exciting own style of jazz developed in Africa in [...]
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The Mebusas Vol 1 – Blood Brothers 🔗
The Mebusas were a Nigerian AfroRock ensemble who released in 1973 their album “Vol 1 Blood Brothers”. Lineup Raimi Olalowo later appeared on albums b [...]
The Movers 1970-76 🔗
The story of The Movers began in 1967 when two unknown musicians – the brothers Norman and Oupa Hlongwane – approached Kenneth Siphayi a stylish and w [...]
A selection from Libyan tapes 🔗
The album “A selection from Libyan tapes” is a compilation blending reggae rhythms, synthy disco grooves, gritty pop, house, and funk, a vibrant colli [...]
Space Jungle Luv – Oneness of Juju 🔗
“Space Jungle Luv” is a classic 1976 album by Oneness of Juju. Tracklist When bandleader James “Plunky” Branch created Oneness Of Juju in 1975, he had [...]
The Pacific Express 🔗
Pacific Express was a South African funk/jazz outfit that has been regarded as “Cape Town’s answer to ‘Earth Wind and Fire'”. Originally formed in the [...]
Nigeria Soul Power 70 🔗
Compilation “Nigeria Soul Power 70 (Afro-Funk ★ Afro-Rock ★ Afro-Disco)” Tracklist A1 Geraldo Pino – Shake HandsA2 Sonny Okosuns Ozziddi – Dance Of Th [...]
OK Jazz – Si tu bois beaucoup 🔗
Before Franco became leader and renamed the group to TPOK Jazz in mid-60s, OK Jazz founded in 1950 had a life of its own, with multiple musicians comi [...]
Biko – Peter Gabriel, Manu Dibango & Playing For Change 🔗
Today in September 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was murdered in police custody. (From amf.didiermary.fr) [...]
Vuma Levin’s “In Motion” 🔗
With “In Motion,” we explore the meeting point between South African and Western European musical traditions. This album, Allegories, reimagines 16th- [...]