Fuzz guitars, synthesizers & psychedelia from the West Africa. Selected with care by Tania, an African music aficionado & selector who runs the remarkable Polyafrica nights at Baobab, Thessaloniki.

Tracklist 

Francis Bebey - African Sanza
Conjunto Papa Upa - Todo Parao, Parte 2 
POLY-RYTHMO de Cotonou\Melome Clement - Gendarme Si We
Ahouangnimon Sébastien Pynasco - Mi Hlin Migan
DANIEL SAGBOHAN - Mi na Gan
Isidore Tamwo - Tchemologne Po Kapien
ANOS BAND - Boro Non Andou Nan
The Scorpios - Saparna (Patience)
Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis - Sakpaide No.2
Les As du Benin - Babaa Na Ayele
Orchestre Picoby Band (Abomey) - Honton Ve Zoun
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats - Synchro System
Afro National - Push Am Forward
Sory Bamba - Kanaga 78 


Recorded at Kalamaria, May 2021

Tania

I just let my self to free flow with the music. To go where the music leeds me.
 So you are also welcome to let yourself go and enter the music kingdom of sound. 
Thru different genres and soundscapes.
 With the intention to tell a story thru music, 
 to resonance love thru music,
 create inspiration for the soul,
give life force thru music
 and to tell the new story of consciousness
from me to you with lotttttts of love

cover image by : MYSTICMAMMA.COM
tracklist: soon will be added

Embrace The Journey (TaOr Music)

TERANGA BEAT proudly presents the ROYAL BAND de THIÈS in their first ever and entirely unreleased 1979 recording. Singers and composers JAMES GADIAGA & SECKA will guide you through the sweet melodies, wicked rhythms and vocal traditions of Senegalese music, in a fabulous performance that combines MBALAX with AFRO-JAZZ.

While many bands in the world claimed the title of “Pacesetters” none can stand next to ROYAL BAND de THIÈS. The 9-member band with its dynamite percussion and horn sections will twist you like tornado! Tracks like "HOMMAGE À MBAYE FALL" will take you on a musical journey to the cultural crossroads of Senegal, West Africa’s meeting point of European, Latin American and African musical traditions. This real-time, two-microphone recording gives the impression that the group is playing live in front of you, making it hard to believe it dates back 33 years ago!

The liner notes of the double gatefold LP and CD booklet include more interesting details, outlining JAMES's & SECKA's musical careers along with the past and present of the band. We hope you will enjoy!


Royal Band de Thiès - Hommage À Mbaye Fall

All profits go to PCRF, Palestine Childrens Relief Fund

Buy single here https://seanmulrooney.bandcamp.com/track/no-two-sides

‘No Two Sides’ is a clarion call for compassion and peace. It is a reminder of our collective humanity and a deliberate naming of that which so many are failing to name; genocide. It is a protest song that centres the children and serves to inspire the powerful movement for Palestine and world peace that is mobilising voraciously across the world.

No Two Sides - Sean Mulrooney

Terra Exotica - Guest Mix

Visions Congo is yet another moniker from Discrepant’s head honcho, Gonçalo F Cardoso, taking Africa as a starting point to evoke the memories and re-imagined experiences of his 6-month stay in the region, back in 2015.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Mulago Sound Studio

Visions Congo - Mulago Sound Studio (LP preview)

Mwera Minazi Mikinda village in Unguja Island, Zanzibar.  
February 2018

Excerpts from a witchdoctor initiation ritual invoking ancestral spirits of Islamic and African Bantu origin (jini).

- vocals, percussions, zumari (traditional horn instrument from Pemba island)

Jini Makata

ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse Heroique) Εγκεφαλικά selections. 
Recorded at Entropia Records. Athens, October 2019
Image from Mont Athos, St. Paul Monastere
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https://entropia-records.com

Entropia Records

ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse Heroique) - Ε Γ Κ Ε Φ Α Λ Ι Κ Ο

this is a mixed media sound quilt  in my I CALL AMERICA series that was premiered last year at the Time Spans festival in NYC. the score on this was a mix of digital and analog, i will link to the video on my website soon. Sandra Bland did not deserve death. She should be here along w/ George Floyd and all the other victims of police brutality. it was honor to create this and work with the fine musicians listed here:


I call america: Sandy Speaks... , 2019 *
World premiere
Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust

Jaimie Branch, trumpet
Matt Lavelle, bass clarinet and pocket trumpet
Maria Grand, tenor saxophone
Geng/King Vision Ultra, wordspeak and sampler
Roberto C. Lange, wordspeak/electronics
Tomas Fujiwara, drums
International Contemporary Ensemble

Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Levy Lorenzo, percussion
Cory Smythe, piano
Mariel Roberts, cello

Sandy Speaks

Bear Bones, Lay Low Live improvisation recorded at the Drogenhaus (BE) on January 14th, 2021. "...en todo caso había un solo túnel, oscuro y solitario: el mío, el túnel en que había transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida." - E. Sabato.

Bear Bones, Lay Low Live [Kashual Plastik Curation]

field recordings, sound explorations and mixtapes

Jini Makata

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