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We are happy to announce the first in an occasional series of fully licensed 12" releases on Autonomous Africa exploring the influence of music from Africa across the globe.

The first release comes from Colombia's Wganda Kenya with three tracks recorded in the mid 70s. The Caribbean coast of Colombia has a long relationship with Africa stretching back hundreds of years. Strong trading links and migration from West Africa to Colombia led to a distinct African influence on the music in cities such as Cartagena and the local music (cumbia and champeta) absorbed these influences. This was  particularly notable in the 70s as records by Fela Kuti amongst others arrived in Colombia. One of the leading practitioners of this Afro Sound were the mighty Wganda Kenya who were huge there in the 70s and 80s and whose music is still highly regarded to this day. 

While their music has appeared on compilations, there hasn't been a big fat 12" vinyl release since Island Records offshoot, Mango put "Shakalode" out as a 12" way back in 1989.

"Shakalode" on the A side is a powerful reworking of the Fela Kuti classic "Shakara" which was much covered in Colombia in the mid 1970s. It's a transcendental Afro Colombian funk bomb.

On the other side are two other Wganda Kenya gems; the call and response percussive and organ grooving "Pim Pom" and the more traditional Colombian cumbia singalong anthem "La Botellita".

Originally this was going to be a 2 x 12" featuring some other Wganda Kenya magic but sadly the masters to many of their tracks have been lost. There are plans to put out a second 12" of reworkings of these tracks aimed at djs who won't play records unless they can mix them, but of course, these 40 year old tracks will still rock any open minded dancefloor just as they are.

All proceeds will once again go to the Mtandika mission in Tanzania - www.actioninafrica.org/about-mtandika.php

Release date April 2015. Distributed by Above Board.

Autonomous Africa is a collaborative project run by JD Twitch, Midland and Auntie Flo.

Autonomous Africa Vintage  01 - Wganda Kenya - Afro Colombia 12" EP (sampler)

OUT now on limited edition handstamped 7" vinyl !

Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen)  & Tom Wieland´s new Future World Jazz project SOUND VOYAGE . first stop Thailand.

get it here:
http://de.juno.co.uk/products/sound-voyage-golden-garuda-super-molam/583057-01/
http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/sound-voyage-single-ltd-435823
or directly from us: https://soundvoyage1.bandcamp.com/releases

worldwide distribution:
http://pusherdistribution.free.fr/



„Chasing after the world brings chaos.
 Allowing it all to come to me brings peace“                                                                Zen Gatha

       Free Soul Inc.  001
a     Sound Voyage : golden garuda  (Niko Schabel ; Tom Wieland)    3.32  
b     Sound Voyage : super molam  (Niko Schabel; Tom Wieland)       3.16
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Following in the footsteps of  German World Jazz visionary Joachim-Ernst Berendt & his 1960´s  „Jazz meets the world“ series on the highly collectible Black Forest label SABA records , Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen, Express Brass Band & part time member of the world jazz pioneers Embryo ;Berlin / Munich) and Tom Wieland (7 Samurai, Panoptikum Arkestra  etc..; Vienna) travel the world in search of new rhythm and sound inspirations. First Sound Voyage stop: SE Asia. Thailand                                                      
Now hear this:  Kraut world bass music for the forward thinkers and  probably one of the first examples, where traditional SE Asian music meets western underground Electronica . Imagine Kraftwerk jammin in a Thai temple with the locals & Moritz von Oswald  on the controls and you´re almost there. 
https://soundvoyage1.bandcamp.com/releases                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_VPpLiCvfs&feature=youtu.be

get your free Sound Voyage  Thai inspirations mixtape  on www.soundcloud.com/7-samurai

Many THNX to my teacher, good friend & living music encyclopedia Alfred Pawlin, who is living in BKK since 35 years .He reintroduced me to the instrumental sound of North East Thailand & beyond




Tom Wieland presents : SOUND VOYAGE Super Molam - Golden Garuda  45 snippets only

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Sechs Acht

The latest single to emerge from Owiny Sigoma Band's third album Nyanza, 'Nairobi (Too Hot)' takes the Kenyan capital as its subject matter. It draws on the positive spirit ingrained in Kenya’s musical heritage as much as it does the country’s uneasy present. 

In ‘Nairobi (Too Hot)’, the country's musical lineage continues to bear an influence. Sun-flecked guitar lines and call-and-response vocals take centre stage, interspersed with 
echoing gunshot fire that’s a reminder of the violent tension in the city experienced by the band while there. The single comes backed by a remix from DJ Khalab, where the oft-Clap! Clap! collaborator has produced an acid-tinged re-rub that retains the bittersweet lilt of the original. 

Pre-order

Owiny Sigoma Band - (Nairobi) Too Hot (DJ Khalab Remix)

Drunken Foreigner Band plays an idiosyncratic electrified version of the Akha and Lam Lao musics of Thailand and Laos. As their name indicates in its provocatively self-deprecating way, the band could be viewed as yet another bunch of exotica-obsessed white males blindly pillaging a little known indigenous musical treasure. But far from being the work of post-colonial bandits, the band's passionate tribute is based on mostly vocal music learned from cassette tapes gathered by keyboardist Dave Kadden on trips to Southeast Asia. Comprising members of Sunwatchers, Invisible Circle and other experimental Brooklyn outfits, their debut LP will be available January 12th, 2018 on Electric Cowbell Records.

Farang Mao

Parisian “adult disco” purveyor Golden Bug steps into the Multi Culti fire-circle to deliver a beautiful reinterpretation of Andi Otto and MD Pallavi. 

Expect some more fire twirling towards the end of 2018 when 'The Bug' as he has affectionately been referred to at MCHQ delivers his first EP for us.

@golden-bug
@andiotto

$pend some $

Andi Otto - Six (Golden Bug Remix)

Pan American - Both Ends Fixed

Recorded live at Church of Sound in early 2018, Korwar delivers a tune emblematic of the marriage of Indian raga with hypnotic jazz that underpins his debut album 'My East Is Your West'. Early passages of ambience transform into raw improvisation as Korwar's newly-formed UPAJ Collective bring us a 12-minute epic with a particularly arresting solo halfway through from percussionist BC Manjunath..

'Eastern music', much like the term "African music' are still ubiquitous and are indicative of how the UK sees, hears and consumes a lot of music that is from afar.  This album (and it's title - My East Is Your West) attempts to question notions of what and where 'East' and 'West' is, in the disturbingly common and casual use of these terms whilst talking about music and bringing together both jazz and Indian classical music with a shift in the power dynamic.” Sarathy Korwar

More info: https://goo.gl/TkW6ja

Premiere: Sarathy Korwar - Hajj

LP/CD/Tape/Digital out now
https://sourakatakoite.bandcamp.com/album/en-hollande
~~~
Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koité began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koité are musicians!,” he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After moving to Paris in the late 70s he began to play in different bands and for musicians like Manu Dibango, Touré Kounda, Mangala, Mah Damba and more. During a festival in Holland, a music producer form Plexus Records heard him and asked to make a recording. In 1984 in an old chicken coop near Delft, Koité recorded the entire album in one take, including overdubs. The rich sonics and deep sound beautifully presents Koité’s virtuosic and entrancing renditions of traditional and original tunes. With the reissue of en Hollande, Awesome Tapes From Africa continues its mission of bringing tapes posted on the ATFA website over the years, including this one, to music fans all over the world.

en Hollande

Sourakata Koite -- Ha-Madi

Multi Culti magically conjures an EP from ZONGAMIN, whose amazing releases on XL Recordings and Ed Banger have kept fans waiting an unfathomable 13 years.

His return is unpredictable in every sense, stylistically running from Detroit string-house, futuristic electro, ceremonial flute-jazz, to indie folk-tronica – these are high-wire jams of the highest order showcasing a unique virtuosity as a multi-instrumentalist, a truly psychedelic experience that stands as a high water-mark for Multi Culti’s cult ambitions.

*feat. Elliot Arndt on flute*

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Zongamin - Cosmic Serpent [MC041]

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