MUZIKIFAN LINKS


(please advise about broken links, or suggest additions)

LINKS WITH MUSIC DOWNLOADS

VOICE OF AMERICA

America has its own "Hugh Tracey" archives in Washington DC that were once the province of Henry Loomis and today Matthew Lavoie is not only keeping the spirit alive by broadcasting to Africa, he is posting rarities from their vaults on a blog on the VOA home-page. Wonderful stuff. Where else can you hear the Bantous de la Capitale in the 1960s stretching out on Monk's "In Walked Bud!"?!!
A Must for music fans.

It's hard to keep up with all the blogs now out there, but WorldService continues to keep me enthralled.

Peter Toll has joined the blogosphere, here.

The name says it all: Analog Africa.

Fabian's Africolumbia is indeed in Columbia.

A 4-song Kekele concert from KEXP radio.

Rufus' Dutch-treat website where you can listen to his 45s.

Johnny Spencer, a Brit with good taste in soul, R&B and Studio One 45s. (He's created individual artworks for his blank 45 sleeves that are wonderful.)

ZIM BIDA's HANDY GUIDE TO ALL THE BLOGS WORTH WATCHING:

Matt Temple's MATSULI is the most popular site on blogspot

Pieter Remes' blog is seaneverdry

Count Reeshard's No condition is Permanent

jons mixed messages

aduna

db aka DUBRUIT

Voodoo Funk

with comb & razor

Likembe

Steve Ntwiga Mugiri - Music

Benn loxo du taccu

LINKS TO ARTISTS


Rokia Traore

Bollywood Brass Band

Unofficial Sam Mangwana Fan Site, with a true fanatic assembly of photos, covers and discographic information

Article about A.R. Rahman on BBC News

Music of Sao Tome's AFRICA NEGRA with some sample tracks
Hear more Africa Negra here

Konono No 1

Thelonious Monk

Harry Warren

Rzewski's Four North American Ballads were part of the repertoire of the International piano e-competition in 2006 and you can hear the best one, number 4, played by the winner, Yung Wook Yoo, here. (Some of the contestants at the International piano-e-contest can be seen performing if you look around their site.)

USEFUL DISCOGRAPHIES

Tim Clifford's awesome work-in-progress to compile ALL East African 45s into a database.

Comprehensive Franco discography in Japan

Bantous pictorial discography on Vibes d'Afrique

Rail Band
Les Ambassadeurs
Bembeya Jazz National
SYLIPHONE LABEL
Graeme Counsel's site in Australia, which has many more discographies

Discography of Number 1 de Dakar
Another Syliphone discography
Discography of Orchestre Baobab
Thorough and detailed information compiled by Doi Naotaka on Forest Beat in Japan

Bio-chemistry Professor Endo's links to African music discographies

Lars's reconstruction of various catalogues by label, including Pathé Marconi

Sonafric

The African 360 series

Ngoyarto

AFRICAN label 45s: plus he's starting on Pathe, Ngoma and other labels & needs your participation

Also Lars's page for the group Bella Bella

My article on the Lassissi label of Abidjan

Music & Musicians in East & Central Africa

Arcane lore about Nigerian music in England on Ojise Olorun's site. It also has discographies of early recordings of Nigerian music on Melodisc, HMV, Zonophone, & Odeon.

LINKS TO NON-COMMERCIAL SITES

John Kitimie of the Kilimanjaro Band has started a Tanzanian music blog.

Vibes d'Afrique forum

Concert photos

AFRICA GROOVES is another North American expate writing about his beloved music. News, reviews, and lots of info about African music.

NOSTALGIE YA MBOKA
A weekly radio show from London plus the home of the Papa Wemba website.

Doug Paterson's East African Music page

Sharp Wood Productions who are restoring the works of Hugh Tracey to our ears

BBC Radio3 Homepage

The latest Bollywood gossip

World Music Central, listener participation

Recordiversity, exploring vintage African music

Ya Congo is a cluttered site with tons of links to other stuff including a hot spot in Colombia

Busy Musique d'Afrique site, packed with info

Stanford University's links to various African Music pages on the internet

John Warr's weekly 2-hour show AfroBase can be heard on totallyradio via this link.

The legendary Jamaican orphanage, the Alpha Boys School, offers a CD by the latest version of the school band with Don Drummond covers and a Mento medley.

Almost legendary Musa Juma and his band Limpopo have a regular gig at the Deep West club on Lang'ata Rd, Nairobi.

Culture and music from Cabo Verde is presented on Tabanka.

Cosmonote, a French site dedicated to recording traditional music in Benin and Burkina Faso.

Finally, Porktornado is an amusing blog about vile record covers.

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