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Brown Supremacy is the second single from Surf Coast multi instrumentalist Immy Owusu and is built on samples of legendary Zamrock band Amanaz’s classic “Easy Street” (1975). Immy and Amanaz exist decades and continents apart but a shared love of Hendrix-esque fuzz guitars and deep connection to West African tradition makes it a natural combination. 

Immanuel Kwabena Dreessens-Owusu grew up in two worlds: the sea bleached lifestyle of Torquay and the Surf Coast with its rock n roll soundtrack, and the musical heritage of his Ghanaian / Dutch family. Immy’s father Kojo is one of Australia’s best regarded West African musicians and his grandfather Koo Nimo is foundational figure of Ghanaian Highlife. On Brown Supremacy, Immy takes Amanzaz loops, and weaves his own songwriting over the top, keeping the iconic riff and the “get together, stay together” hook from the original. He adds chunky kicks and snares, fuzz atmospherics, and ‘Castles Made Of Sand’ reverse delay guitar. 

Zamrock was a 1970s movement of Zambian artists who took psychedelic rock and reframed it in an African context. Too far ahead of their time, artists like Amanaz didn’t achieve global recognition until successful reissues and compilations in the 21st century. Now their music has found kindred spirits all the way to Bells Beach where Immy has flipped it into ‘a song dedicated to every kid that grew up in a rural town that felt like they didn’t belong’.

Immy says, ‘When I first moved to Torquay, for some kids I was the first ‘black’ person they had ever seen before, and their first experience from any other culture that wasn’t their own. In high school I pushed away from people who looked like me in an attempt to fit into the establishment. How ‘black’ I felt was compounded by how ‘white’ I was treated by my Ghanaian family (in Africa). For me this song is my story about finding a place to belong.’

Immy Owusu - Brown Supremacy

Trouble - Jose James (J Boogie)

Arad Yeini - Trumpet  || Ma'ayan Milo - Trombone || Gal Dahan - Saxophone || Ilan Smilan - Guitar || Lior Romano - Bass (Keytar) || Dan Mayo - Drums || Galla Borowski - Vocal

Recorded at  "DB Studios", Tel-Aviv, Israel
Mixed by Uri "Mixmonster" Wertheim
2011

Crazy Race (Roy Hargrove)

Tartit - Ansari

Mark Holder - Music Turns Me On (Mark Wayward Edit)

From their new album, Panola County Spirit, out now.

Get it at:
The Daptone Shop - http://shop.daptonerecords.com
Bandcamp - https://walkerfamilysingers.bandcamp.com/releases
iTunes/Amazon/Google Play - http://radi.al/PanolaCountySpiritDigi

Walker Family Singers "Jesus Gave Me Water"

"Celestial" meditation music with Solfeggio healing frequencies (DNA repair 528 Hz and Awakening Intuition 741 Hz)

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This audio uses binaural beats and an isochronic tone. (Alpha and Theta waves)

Binaural beats - 528 Hz (DNA repair)
Isochronic tone - 741 Hz (Awakening Intuition)
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Angelic Prayers

Celestial Meditation Music / 528 Hz & 741 Hz / Angelic Prayers (3 min version)

Africa Centre of The World

Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers - Africa center of the world

02 Budos Rising

The Serpents Mouth

Bocas Del Dragon

The Cranes were one of Uganda’s most popular teenage bands in the 1970’s. Founded in 1965, they metamorphosed at the end of the 1970’s into the Afrigo Band which is still, up to today, the number one band in the country. What’s love and Joy, both written by singer and guitarist Tony Senkebejje, appeared in 1974 on the only Cranes’ LP ‘Top Ten Hits’.
When the album hit the record stores in Kampala, bad luck had befallen The Cranes. A month before the recording of the album their bass player Jessy Kasirivu was killed because of President Idi Amin’s amorous association with his girlfriend. Senkebejje, scared for his life, fled to Kenya, only returning to Uganda 15 years later. The song What’s love describes how confusing love can be to a young soul and is partly inspired by Kasirivu’s death. Joy is a love song for Senkebejje’s wife Rachel who followed him to Kenya and who has been singing lead and playing guitar with him in their Simba Sounds Band ever since. Both songs feature prominently in the documentary Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta (2019 – 70 min – UG/NL/FR) which investigates the death of Jessy Kasisirvu at the hands of Idi Amin‘s State Research agents. Bwana Jogoo, directed by Dutch filmmaker Michiel van Oosterhout, showcases many great 1970’s songs from Uganda while letting Uganda’s musicians of yesteryears recount fond memories of one of their own, Jessy Kasirivu. These are the folks that worked and socialized with Jessy and knew him better than most. Their accounts of the events that led to Jessy’s disappearance are riveting and haunting. It lays bare a hitherto unexplored subject and one deserving of serious interrogation and scholarship – the naked power of authoritarianism and sexual predation.

The Cranes

The Cranes What's Love/Joy New Afro7 single - snippets

King Cobra - The Budos Band

Artists: Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers
Remixed by: Nimbus
Production credit: Hersh Patel (@hershp)
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Roy Ayers met Fela Kuti in Nigeria in 1979. They collaborated on a two-song project called "Music of Many Colors", leaning heavily into the ideas of pan-Africanism and Afro-futurism. It was a truly awesome and historic coming together of two legendary musical geniuses.
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The project came at a rare moment of optimism in Nigerian politics: the dictatorship had ended and Nigeria’s first democratic elections were held. This helps explain why the LP represents a clear shift from Fela's traditional use of music as a weapon, and rather puts forth a message of positivity and optimism. In the track "2000 Blacks Got To Be Free," they make a bold and optimistic prediction that the world would improve significantly for Black people by the year 2000. The track begins with the vocals of Ayers, as he sets the tone for the project: “We’re hoping that by the year 2000; we know that by the year 2000, that’s even better, everybody will be knowledgeable.”
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Four decades have passed since Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers put forth this optimistic vision, and, this very day, masses of protestors are denouncing police brutality and demanding racial justice for Black people. Dishearteningly, we are far off from Roy and Fela's prediction in 1980. It can be demoralizing to compare the future that Fela and Roy envisioned with the reality that we’re living in today, in 2020.
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Despite this hard truth, I don't believe this track was ever about accurately predicting the future. I think it was meant to teach us that positivity, unity, and togetherness is what will get us to a brighter future. In 2020, this message is relevant now more than ever, and, though we know the road will be long, Roy and Fela remind us that we must always look optimistically to the light at the end of the tunnel, however faint it may look from where we stand.

Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers - 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (Nimbus Remix)

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Electric Tit

The mysterious afro-soul of The Shaolin Afronauts first echoed across the dance floors of Australia in early 2008. Heavily inspired by the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering avant-garde jazz artists of the same period, the Shaolin Afronauts draw on the this highly innovative and sometimes volatile era in music, using it as inspiration to create music with the same fire and intensity. 

Though there is something refreshing and original about the Afronauts, their music could be described as somewhere in between the heavy Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Ethio-Jazz of Mulatu Astatke. 

This debut 12 inch single combines all these elements, Journey Through Time having a hypnotic, spiritual feel, whilst the B side Kibo is totally exclusive to this 12 inch single, and is an upbeat positive groove, both tracks only hinting at the delights the forthcoming album Flight Of The Ancients (FSRCD/LP085) will contain.



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