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Greetings, Platterbugs!
Updated 1 October 2024New & UpcomingSuper Disco Pirata from Analog Africa: this sounds very promisingIgbo masquerade music, new from Okwy Osadebe New album of Oriental Brothers from Palenque Records also, Afro-Colombian roots music from Palenque Records
From Anvar Kalandarov:
Two recommended by Tony Pitt: Finally, under the category "Great, if you like that sort of thing," new from Afro Celt Sound System OVA on Six Degrees
VideoJazz Crazy is worth following on youtube. His recent uploads include two singles by Dewayon (Paul Ebengo) on Loningisa: first "Bikunda" & this gem on the flip-side, "Groupe Watam." And, from Kenya, some fingerstyle guitar picking from William Osale, on "Kusemakweli"Dengue Fever live on KEXP, July 2024 For something completely different, check out Pelin su Yavez at Symphony Hall, she won a Young Artists Competition while still a student at Berklee. Here she plays 4 short pieces, from Mendelssohn to Miles, with a tight trio, notably at 10'02 "A Night in Tunisia"
From Pieter Remes: Still awesome, "Ataole" song heard around the world, held over from last month
RadioKALX has reposted an edited version of my interview about Ngoma: the Soul of Congo: lots of music, plus me yakking on
R.I.P.Mangey Khan, lead singer of the Barmer BoysSergio Mendes of Brasil 66 Joni Haastrup, afro rock star, founder of Monomono Rise Kagona (last of the Bhundu Boys); here on the Peel Sessions 1986 Roy Cape, calypsonian Teddy Kalanda Harrison, of Them Mushrooms
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Year to date(click on maps at the top of the page to get to continent of choice)
September 2024
Mute by El Khat is filed in Arabia
August 2024
Nigerian Guitar Roots 1936-68 is filed in Nigeria part 3
July 2024
Kandia Kouyate's album is filed under Mali part 6
June 2024
Okwy Osadebe & his Highlife Soundmakers' Ifunanya is filed in Nigeria pt 3
May 2024
Les Belgicains is filed under Congo Classics part 2
April 2024
Franco & OK Jazz compilation from Les Editions Populaires is under Congo Classics 2
March 2024
Ngwaka Son Système with Iboto ngenge is filed in Congo part 4
February 2024
Afrika Muye Muye! Tanzanian Rumba 1968-70 is filed in Kenya/Tanzania part 3
January 2024
Mama Sissoko Live is filed in Mali part 6
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