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After hearing a recording of The Hallelujah Chicken Run Band (yes, that's really a band! Check them out!) in the summer of 2011, I was inspired to learn more about the various styles of African Guitar playing. The book I found to be most helpful was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graff.

After a few months, I began recording some of the songs so that I could listen closely and critique my technique. Recording also allowed me to practice layering the multiple guitar parts together. As I got better, some of the recordings got better too. When I get one that sounds decent enough, I'll add some drum samples and post it here for others to enjoy.

So far, all of these have been recorded with Garageband on my iPhone. Some of them used the microphone on my headphones, on others I used an Apogee Jam and, most recently, and Apogee MiC.

African Guitar

African Music

LiИG’S ₵HiLL ΘUT TiMΞ

African Guitar 2

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Davido - Aye (Prod. TSpize)

Mama Africa - Bracket [Official music]

Runtown GALLARDO ft Davido

PSQUARE - Taste The Money (Testimony)

Davido Ft Mafikizolo - Tchelete  (Goodlife)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhOycqWN8dQ
From Sitarsonic Selected Archives by Sam Lfo
https://ethnicalvibes.bandcamp.com/album/sitarsonic-selected-archives-by-sam-lfo
 Ethnicalvibes & Sitarsonic collaboration tracks, Produced between 2010 & 2017 
www.soundcloud.com/ethnicalvibes Studio.
Prog/machines /vibes: Sam Lfo
Prog/sitar/voices/Experience touch : Paco Rodriguez
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Jungle Paradise with Sitarsonic

Holy Crap, I recorded this ON MY PHONE.


This song is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graf.

Afro Twist & Jive

Another African Guitar song. I'm making a goal to record something on a regular basis and share it, even if it's not perfect.

On this song, I experimented a little more what the iOS Garageband had to offer. However, I think running an acoustic guitar through a crappy mic into an amp emulator is not the best idea. I'm not as happy with the final sound as I was on the last song, but I learned a lot in the process.

This song is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graf.

Soukous Maringa

Gave myself an hour today to record something. Got this done in about 40 minutes. Called it good enough.

When I first started playing African guitar styles, this was the first really challenging song I encountered. The style was alien, yet beautiful. I practiced it as often as I could until that opening line flowed off my fingers. (Not perfect in this recording, but close enough) Something about the flow and blend of the first two guitar parts drove me on and on until I really got it.

Once I learned this one, new songs came more easily to my fingers and I was off on my journey.

The third guitar part was not from the book I learned from. A friend of mine came up with the basic sound while we played together and I added the harmony.

This song is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graf.

Cutaway

Got a new microphone: the Apogee Mic. It's a condenser mic that plugs in via USB or directly into an iPhone or iPod using the dock connector. It's basically about the best thing ever.

Here's what I was able to record on my first go round. It's the best take I got, but in my defense, it was long after midnight when I recorded this.

This song is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graf.

Mampama

Another song in my studies of African Guitar stylings. The first two guitar parts exhibit "polychordal harmony" (a term that that I'd never heard of until reading the notes for this song) in that the chord changes occur two beats apart and makes for beautiful interplay between the parts.

 Recording in Garageband on iOS has gotten much easier, so this time I focused on making longer recordings and relying less on looping- I think that keeps things more interesting.

This song is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> by Folo Graf.

Gbongo-Wass

I recorded this once before and accidentally deleted it from SoundCloud. The first recording used the Everyday Looper app on my iPhone and was fairly rudimentary. I've gone back and made a more expansive version of it.

There are three "Maringa Wan Way" songs published in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882146913/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=quiddle-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1882146913">African Guitar Styles</a> and this recording uses parts from the first two variations. The best part of "Maringa Wan Way" is that each of the eleven different parts can be played on top of each other. At most, there are four guitar parts playing at once in this recording.

Maringa Wan Way

Melody: Hamza Namira
Oud: Mamdouh El Gebali
Buzuk: Ali Yilmaz
Arrangement: Odul Erdogan
Mixing: Hamza Namira

Hamza Namira Ibn El Watan - Instrumental

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02. Basti Grub & Mike Trend - Hang Over
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04. Bocca Grande - Procedere 2011
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05. Cosmic Cowboys - Notre Jour Viendra (Lake People Remix)
http://soundcloud.com/musik-gewinnt-freunde/musik-gewinnt-freunde-mgf019-3

06. Andy Kohlmann - Kutter Someria
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09. Jonas Woehl Feat. Max Münch - Skizze 2
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Two classic albums from Sterns, originally released on vinyl in the 1980s and now for the first time in almost 30 years, re-released as digital downloads.

Artist: Kante Manfila
Title: Tradition
Cat.no: STERNS1021
Orig. year of release: 1988
Re-release:  29th April 2013
Format: digital only

From the Guinean guitarist of Les Ballets Africaines, the Rail Band, Les Ambassadeurs and who, with Salif Keita, recorded the pure-drop classic 'Mandjou', here is an acoustic-only album that includes, among others, Mory Kante on kora.

In the world of Manding music, it really doesn't get much better. Enthralling. 

Artist: Ebenezer Obey
Title: Solution
Cat.no: STERNS1005
Orig. year of release: 1984
Re-release:  29th April 2013
Format: digital only

As a member of the magnificently named Fatai Rolling-Dollar's, and to give him his full title of the “Chief Commander”, Ebenezer Obey began his career in the juju music of Nigeria back in the 1950s. By the early 60s he'd set up as leader of his own group, here the Inter-Reformers Band, and had begun to record the scores of albums upon which his fame rests today.

'Solution' with its rallying cry of “WAI” (War Against Indiscipline) catches him at the peak of his powers and not long before his effective retirement from juju music to concentrate on gospel.  


Maimouna Diaby by Kante Manfila (edit) / To Ba Nwa Ire by Ebenezer Obey (edit)

3 ORIGINAL, CLASSIC ALBUMS BY BOPOL MANSIAMINA

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY  FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON JUNE 3rd, 2013
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/bopol-mansiamina/id128644468?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Paul Mfoko Mansiamina a.k.a. Bopol, is one of a small and select group of musicians whose story lies at the very heart of Congolese and, by that definition, African music of the last 30 years. Born in Leopoldville in 1949, Bopol was only 20 when he was part of the group that represented Congo at the first Pan-African Festival of Culture held in Algiers in 1969. This was 'Orchestra Bamboula' led by Papa Noel, one of several bands that Bopol has graced, including Dr Nico's 'African Fiesta Sukisa', Tabu Ley's 'Afrisa' and Sam Mangwana's 'African All-Stars'. These are not groups without substance, but bands whose output is part of the very fabric of classic African music.

But Bopol's greatest achievements lay in the 1980s and 90s, amongst the vast diaspora of French-speaking Africans who, as the political and economic situations of their originating countries deteriorated, made the metropolises of Europe and North America their home. By 1982  Bopol had settled in Paris and there, with Syran Mbenza, Wuta Mayi and Nyboma he helped form one of the most successful groups of the time, the Quatre Etoiles. 

Highly polished, chic, energetic yet sophisticated, here was a group to define the soukous sound that still, today, is one of the most significant and truly pan-African musics. In almost all cases, eschewing the stately intros of the older rumba music, soukous cuts straight to the chase, and with spiralling hypnotic guitar patterns, minimal horns and an insistent beat, it urges you to dance. And dance people did: in the clubs and concert houses of the diaspora, soukous swept all before it.  

One of the reasons for the Quatre Etoiles' success was their organisation. It was a partnership in which each member was free to record and perform with others, which they duly did to the benefit of all. Bopol was perhaps the most successful in this and, over time, his skills on rhythm and bass guitars together with his creativity in arranging, have been called upon by pretty much all of the key Congolese artists. 

Through all of this he released a string of solo albums that were both critical and commercial successes. It is these albums, beginning with 3 from 1983, '84 & '91, that we are able, by direct arrangement with Bopol himself, to bring to the digital marketplace for the very first time. 

Bopol Mansiamina: undisputed royalty in the field of Congolese music.

"While they fit the soukous mold—indeed they helped to create it—the musicians of Quatre Etoiles possessed a feel for the conventional rumba that many of their younger colleagues, whose careers were made in Paris, lacked. Each was a pedigreed performer from the heyday of the Congolese rumba, only a generation away from the music's founders. As solo artists and as a group, the Quarte Etoiles produced a body of work that ranks among the best of the eighties and nineties Congolo-Paris scene." Gary Stewart, Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos.

Mix tracks: 

"Manuela" from 'Manuela'
Orig. year of release: 1983

"Afric' Ambiance" from 'Bopol'
Orig. year of release: 1984

"Djeneba" from 'Innovation'
Orig. year of release: 1991


Bopol Mansiamina: Manuela / Afric' Ambiance / Djeneba

Guitarist. Saxophonist. Harmonica-ist. Penny Whistler. Piano hack. Bell Choir Director.

Music for me started with the sax lessons in middle school. Everything else... just happened.

Soukous Maringa

Quiddle