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Performed by Marla Kether (Bass Guitar, Bass Synth), K.O.G (Vocals), Sonia Konaté (Guitar) & Will Fry (Percussion)

Produced by Marla Kether

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This Is My Latest Mashup On This BANGER Called 'Amana'! Enjoy! ✌️
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AMANA VS The Color Violet (GAITA MASHUP)

AFRIQUOI
‘KOLABA’
DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED 11TH SEPTEMBER ON WORMFOOD RECORDS
Available in CD + digital formats
We’ve come a long way since the Drummers of Burundi’s now famous appearance at the inaugural WOMAD Festival in 1982. Today a new era for ‘world music’ is emerging, both in the UK and globally. The internet and permeation of mobile technology mean ideas and musical styles are shared globally at a rate faster than ever, with hiphop scenes in Senegal, house music scenes in South Africa, Kuduro in Portugal and futuristic African music across the UK.

In London, African music has become increasingly popular. No longer deemed “exotic”, it is simply part of the musical make-up of 21st century Britain. This is the starting point for Afriquoi - a new generation of musical producers and consumers who have grown up with African music alongside house, garage, drum and bass, grime, hiphop, reggae and jazz. 

Afriquoi’s debut album ‘Kolaba’, released 11th September on Wormfood Records, is a deep project with real roots. Rather than a one-off collaboration between musicians with no musical or personal connection, ‘Kolaba’ is 
the product of four years intense work with the same group of people, deepening their knowledge of each other’s musical, cultural and personal histories. This gives the Afriquoi sound a particular richness and uniqueness.

Bringing in elements of Congolese soukous and rumba, Mandinka griot music, Shona mbira and marimba, Jamaican dancehall, house, garage, disco and drum and bass, ‘Kolaba’ embraces styles from across the African diaspora but with its roots firmly planted in London where the band live. As guitarist Fiston ‘Papa’ Lusambo says, “This is a new music. If you miss it, you miss life”.

Afriquoi came to be in 2011 when promoter and percussionist André Marmot arranged separate production collaboration sessions between producer Nico Bentley, guitarist Fiston Lusambo, kora player Jally Kebba Suso and marimba player Kudaushe Matimba.

Having run ‘Rootmaster’, the world music sessions at Hootananny Brixton since 2009, André mixed with a huge number of London’s African musicians and groups, and so was in a unique position to arrange collaborations with fellow musicians. There was no set outcome planned beyond inviting a range of musicians he admired to collaborate with a producer he trusted, and seeing what happened. 

Further collaborations took place over the next few years with Jamaican/Birmingham vocalist Serocee, deep house/ disco vocalist and singer Andre Espeut, Algerian mandol player Seddik Zebiri, dancehall singer Warrior Queen, and grime MC Badness, as well as sessions with Swedish/Botswanan mbira player Otto Gumaelius, Gambian percussionist Musa Mboob, Senegalese singer Batch Gueye and guimbri player Nuru Kane. 

Although not all these artists made it onto the album it was an important formative experience for the band’s sound and after playing shows with a variety of personnel, the band cohered in Summer 2013 with the live lineup of Jally Kebba Suso (kora), Fiston Lusambo (guitar), André Espeut (vocals), Nico Bentley (live electronics) and André Marmot (percussion). 

Having performed at a hugely diverse range of festivals and venues including Glastonbury, The London Olympics 2012, Bestival, Secret Garden Party, Fusion Festival and many more, Afriquoi are set for more shows this summer with the ‘Kolaba’ album launch at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, 11th September.

2015 live shows:

JULY
4th	SCOTLAND		Kelburn Garden Party
5th	LEEDS			Hi-Fi
17th	LONDON 		Lovebox Festival
18th	LANCASHIRE		Beat Herder Festival
25th	CAMBRIDGESHIRE	Secret Garden Party
AUGUST
1st	HOLLAND		Ruigoord Festival 
15th	GERMANY		3000grad Festival
29th	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE	Shambala Festival (DJ set)
30th	ITALY			Kribiskrabis Festival
31st	CROATIA		Dimensions Festival
SEPTEMBER
3rd	CROATIA		Outlook Festival, Croatia
11th	LONDON		Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre


Ningde Jubeh- Part 2

Blip Discs (@blip-discs) have wasted no time in following up their impressive maiden release from O'Flynn with another corker. Double sider Wrong Guanco/Shekere comes from label chieftain, Tom Blip - two slabs of afro house/techno with heaps of groove. With it, a loose thread is beginning to emerge: a solid percussive core being a strict must for any Blip package. “Wrong Guanco” pips the b-side by a smidgen, founded on the chops of a 70s solo conga player and bulked up tenfold by rootsy, drum-led add-ons from Leeds-based percussionist Sam Bell.

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Tom Blip "Wrong Guanco" - Boiler Room Debuts

No words are necessary to describe the beauty and power of FELA KUTI's music. "Water No Get Enemy" was the B'SIDE track for 1975's album "EXPENSIVE SHIT" (EDITIONS MAKOSSA), the twelveth album by FELA & AFRICA 70. The title of the album refers to an incident in which the Nigerian police tried to arrest Kuti by planting a joint on him. Kuti managed to eat the joint, prompting police to bring him into custody and wait for him to produce the excrement. According to legend he managed to use another inmate's feces and was eventually release
smallFall & AmazeMe deliver a stunning Afro-Breaks rework of the tune. Ideal to set tropical dancefloors on fire!

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Debut EP out now via Soundway Records. Buy now: http://boomkat.com/downloads/560087-the-busy-twist-floor-excitement-ep

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'Tucked-in Funky with a budgin' sort of Afrobeats funk and flex. Kneading parts of Kuduro, Funky, 2-Step and Kwaito, 'Floor Excitement' is "all about good vibes", and comes backed with VIP for even better vibes, beside the carnival-ready percolations of 'Yagga Skank' and '1995''s ravin' swagger. Wicked.' Boomkat.com

1995

FLOOR EXCITEMENT VIP

B2 MC Palakata & Tom Blip - Singeli Jungles (OtCR12018)

The blue velvets - Summertime - 1979

Welcome to Afriquoi! Live African dance music.
like us on facebook: www.facebook.com/afriquoi

2015 summer shows announced!

22.5	How The Light Gets In, Hay on Wye
5.6	Songlines Encounters Festival, King's Place, London
13.06.15	Kazimier, Liverpool
14.06.15	Eden Festival, Scotland
16.6.15	St.John's College May Ball, Cambridge
04.07.15	Kelburn Garden Party, Scotland
5.7.15	The Hifi Club, Leeds
17.07.15	Lovebox festival, London
18.7 Beat Herder, Lancashire
26.7 Secret Garden Party, Cambs (Chaiwallahs)
29.8.15	KribisKrabis, Italy
30.8.15	Dimensions Festival, Croatia
3.9.15Outlook Festival, Croatia


Here are 2 vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD99b7PK8mo 
http://youtu.be/XR3zWstmfgs

Please feel free to get in touch here or by emailing
afriquoi@wormfood.co.uk
If you are a DJ and wanna play our tracks we can send you an mp3..... or you can buy Kudaushe + Fiston ft Serocee at www.afriquoi.com

Biography

Live African dance music, fusing Congolese guitar + Gambian kora virtuosity with UK electronic sensibilities to create captivating, beautiful, dancefloor- friendly new music for a new generation of world music fans with one foot in the clubs.



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