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I very like the music from Africa. Very very. i like.

Feso Jaiye - The Sahara All Stars Of Jos 

Arraino - Popular Cooper & his all beats band

Onu Kwulu Njo - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

Celestine Ukwu And His Philosophers National - Okwukwe Na Nchekwube (Soundway Records)

Sampled from Alhaji Haruna Ishola - Owokoniran of Iwo

Owokoniran of Iwo

From bright Nigerian highlife horns to Ethiopian fuzz-tone guitar riffs, this Rough Guide presents a broad selection of rare African dance grooves. Hard to find but easy to dance to.

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The concept of ‘Rare Groove’ has come a long way since its origins in the 1980s London club scene, where DJs would try to out-do each other with soul and funk obscurities. These days the blogosphere is full of enthusiasts sharing their latest vintage vinyl finds, with African music providing rich pickings. But there is a largely untapped resource of independent labels in Africa, America and Europe releasing fabulous sounds that deserve a much wider audience. This collection pulls together a variety of African grooves music from Mozambican marrabenta to Nigerian highlife.

Gentleman Mike Ejeagha and his protégé Celestine Ukwu are both known for morally instructive songs in the Igbo language of south-eastern Nigeria. ‘Ikpechakwa A-Akem Kpee’ starts with a clarion call of horns and quickly settles into an old-school highlife groove. Ukwu is a bit more laid back, with a fabulously languid horn section. Osayomore Joseph is known as ‘Ambassador’ for popularising the Edo language through music. ‘Oyeye’, with its ringing guitar and rasping brass was one of his first hits in the early 1970s.

Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Moçambique takes its name from an urban music style from Maputo, speeding up the rural majika rhythm and adding pulsing horns. Ayalèw Mèsfin started singing with Ethiopian Police Orchestra before developing his own rock’n’roll-influenced sound full of moody fuzz-guitar riffs, keyboard stabs and horn punches. Analogue synths meet old school East African Rumba in ‘Kai Kai’ by Yam Yam, a previously unreleased track featuring the talents of Congolese émigrés Les Mangalepa, now based in Nairobi, and British producer Guy Morley. International Orchestra Safari Sound, formed in Tanzania in 1985, developed a style known as ndekule, which refers to both a traditional war dance and a species of snake. ‘Homa Imenizidia’, with lyrics about an overpowering fever, certainly has a serpentine grace! 

West Nkosi’s sax jive style provides a stepping stone between penny-whistle kwela and mbaqanga, the township music unforgettably dubbed ‘The Indestructible Beat’. ‘Malombo’s ‘Mbaqanga Blues’ is an edgier proposition featuring multi-instrumentalist Phillip Tabane and Gabriel Thobejane on percussion.

Super Cayor De Dakar described their brand of Afro-Latin music salsa-mbalax. The 1996 version of ‘Dégoo’ included here is more immediate than later recordings, with a sublime combination of keyboards and horns. Saleta Phiri was one of the first two musicians to receive ‘The Malawi Honours Of The Achievers Award’. His songs speak of the hardships of life in the volatile township of Ndirande. On ‘Ndolo’, Cameroonian polymath Francis Bebey combines pygmy flute, a rattle-bag of percussion and a gently funky bass-line with intriguingly contrasting vocal styles, though the theme is given away in the final line: ‘I’m singing my love for you’.


Gentleman Mike Ejeagha & His Premiers Dance Band: Ikepechakwa A - Akem Kpee

THE MASTER GUITARIST VOL.2

SUNNY ADE & HIS SON AFRICAN BEATS - SUNNY TI DE

Northern club bangers, electro-simpa, Dagbani hip-hop and 90's reggae: The Dagbani pop music scene in Tamale, the north of Ghana, is a world of it's own. Mixed by Morgan Greenstreet

Dagbani Pop

La chanteuse béninoise Angélique vidéo Zelie, chanson africaine du Togo.

Musique Bénin Angelique Kidjo - Zelie - Unplugged

taken from: King Ayisoba - 1000 Can Die
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Born in Bolgatanga in rural Ghana, King Ayisoba was a prodigy on the kologo, playing locally until he’d outgrown the possibilities of the area. Moving to Accra, the country’s biggest city, he eventually released the song “I Want To See You, My Father.” There was nothing modern about it. No hiplife rap, no electronic beats. But somehow it conquered the country and brought the tradition firmly into the mainstream.

“It was Song of the Year and Traditional Song of the Year,” says album producer Zea. “He also had a song called “Modern Ghanaians” that said we shouldn’t forget the tradition. Instead we should use it to fight modern problems.”

With that mantra, King Ayisoba became the unlikeliest star. His music was a strong weapon for Ghana’s traditions. What he wanted, though, was to play with a band, to bring what he called the “man-power” to give the full drive to his sound. On the album Wicked Leaders, with Zea producing, that’s exactly what he did.
After that Ayisoba toured Europe together with Zea, opening up solo, providing guitar, vocals and live electronics on stage, and Francis Ayagama joined King Ayisoba's band on djembe and bemne drums

Alone or with beats, ultimately the power that propels 1000 Can Die comes from the band itself, from the sense of history that forms every piece of music. It’s there in every musician. They all go home and farm. They’re connected to the land, and the songs are part of the harvest they bring from the fields and from their own families.
“Ayisoba’s grandfather played the kologo,” Zea says. “But only in the house. He was a healer, a shaman. People would come and tell him their problems. He’d make a connection with the spirits, then play and start singing, and his stories would include solutions.”

On 1000 Can Die, King Ayisoba is digging a new future from Ghana’s soil.

1000 Can Die

Africa Needs Africa

King Ayisoba - Africa Needs Africa

Rudaviro

Mukana

1970 - 1983

Ayamma - the Anambra Beats
Feso Jaiye - The Sahara All Stars Of Jos
Synchro System - King Sunny Ade
Arraino - Popular Cooper & his all beats band
Onu Kwulu Njo - Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

Music Therapy from Nigeria (1970 - 1983) Good Vibes - High Life

oumou sangare - iyo djeli - josecarlos edit

”The Highlife Doctor” - 7” minimix with Dr. K. Gyasi and His Noble Kings

Continuing on my exploration to the depths African highlife music this minimix showcases one of the greatest highlife bandleaders and guitarists to date Doctor K. Gyasi and his band The Noble Kings from Ghana. One of the true pioneers of highlife and guitar music in general Kwame Gyasi b.1929 - d.2012 started recording in the 1950’s and had major success in Ghana during the 1960’s and 1970’s and many of his records are considered all-time classics. Gyasi is credited to being one of the first ones that introduced electric organs and horns to highlife bands and creating the Sikyi-highlife style based on the old native rhythms and dance of same name. 
This minimix includes some of my favourite tracks lifted from his 7” singles out of Ghana ranging in styles of deep and chilled highlife to charachara released in the bands prime in 1970’s. 
These songs came out when Gyasi & Noble Kings were one the biggest acts in whole of Ghana and toured the country with their own theatre group performing their signature grand ”highlife opera” to full venues for people to enjoy. 

Tracklist: 
Dankwama
Abrabo
Odo Odo Ye Wu
Nsem Keka Dooso
Maye Nsusan
Mebowua Minnim
Yebere Ma Owuo

"The Highlife Doctor" - 7" minimix with Dr. K. Gyasi And His Noble Kings

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Music Therapy from Nigeria (1970 - 1983) Good Vibes - High Life

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