In 2012 made two afro-only mixes as a follow up to "the joy of cooking african stew" and posted them on my blog. Since I did not include the incredibly expensive sounding Afro Boogie tunes everybody was after at that time these mixes did not get lots of plays back in the days. I tried to focus on off the radar songs that moved me a lot. They still sounded fresh to my ears so here they are again!

African Stew Part III

It’s scorching August heat outside, so this time around I’ll play some of my favourite African and African-adjacent tunes. This is a trilogy divided into three programs. You’ll hear some traditional African music, Ethiopian jazz, a few Afrobeat tunes, a bit of dub/ reggae, shangaan electro and even 1980s South African synth pop. Stay tuned for more in this series.
Find more episodes at: https://snowsovgethen.com/

Tracklist:
01.	Francis Bebey "Sahel" 1975 Fiesta
02.	Explorer Series : Africa "Kouco Solo (Mali)" 1976 Nonesuch
03.	Daniel Bacalov "Africa II°/Africa III°" 1985 General Music
04.	Lee Scratch Perry "African Revolution" 2011 M.O.D. Technologies
05.	Nina Hagen "African Reggae" 1979 CBS
06.	Chris Hinze "African Rapness" 1984 Amarkord
07.	Tshetsha Boys "Nwampfundla" 2010 Honest Jon's
08.	Mohammed After Hussain, PAQ "Shomapti" 2022 Hive Mind
09.	Letta Mbulu "Down By The River" 1983 Munjale
10.	Na Hawa Doumbia "Kungo Sogoni" 1982 AS
11.	Azandé "Ensemble Avec Xylophone" 1962 Ocora
12.	Admas "Anchi Bale Game" 1984 African Heritage
13.	Mario Rui Silva "Kazum-zum-zum" 1988 ENDIPU UEE
14.	Letta Mbulu "Nomalizo" 1983 Munjale

Hermetic Journals : The Roads To Alkebulan Pt.1 • African Music Special (August 2022) Live @ IPR

Top selection of classic and modern heart and soul songs of Mali, Guinea and Mauritania. Tribute to the kindest Mah Kouyaté who passed away last year.

01.  Binta Laly Sow — Walyabhé Fouta (Guinea, 199x)
02. Amy Koïta — Bébé (Mali, 1999)
03. Manamba Kanté — Bhouloundjouri (Guinea, 2022)
04. Fatim Diabaté Haute Gamme — Kamalemba (Mali, 2023)
05. Tawel Camara — Hé Tohnèma (Guinea, 2022)
06. Cisse Konte — Kaira (Mali, 2022)
07. Coumba Sidibé — Mougoukan (Mali, 1994)
08. Amy Koïta № 2 — Konowililen (Mali, 2022)
09. Alou Sangaré — Téguéré (Mali, 2008)
10. Mamou Sidibé — Nimissa (Mali, 1999)
11. Mah Kouyaté № 2 — Tariba (Mali, 2004)
12. Dramane Tandia — Kefi Guemou (Mauritania, 2022)

African Wisdom (Life and Love Songs from Mali, Guinea and Mauritania)

Ancient Wassoulou sounds with a modern twist, extended with beats and traditional Soku breaks for the dancefloor. Doussou Bagayoko (sometimes spelled Bagayogo) is the daughter of the great Nahawa Doumbia and guitar player N'gou Bagayoko.

Danaya

N'téri (Hotplate Edit) - Doussou Bagayoko

Rokia Traoré - Projet Roots Au 104

La Nouvelle Revelation De Wassoulou

Nadiaramiye-Nabintou Diakité

Née en 1976 à Yanfolila, dans le Wassoulou, au Mali, Fatoumata Diakité dite Tata Diakité commence à chanter à l’age de 9 ans dans son village. Elle débute vraiment dans la musique en 1990, à Bamako où elle a rejoint sa sœur Djénéba Diakité (elle-aussi chanteuse) qu’elle accompagne comme choriste. Très vite, elle accompagne divers artistes, tels que Oumou Sangaré, Issa Bagayogo, Ramata Diakité, Tenin Sidibé et Yoro Sidibé ou encore Mamou Sidibé. A partir de 1998, Tata Diakité se lance dans une carrière solo, développant une magnifique musique wassoulou marquée par le kamélé ngoni, et accompagnée par des yabara (shékéré), karigna (sorte de reko-reko), djembé, calebasse, guitare, batterie, basse…

tata diakite

Tata Diakite, DOUGOUDIE

A little mix to start the new year, some of our favourite pan-African tunes!

Hi-Five Hi-Fi

Afro Mix Jan 2020

LP/CD/Tape/Digital out Jan 29 
http://smarturl.it/kanawa

Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N’gou Bagayoko. 

The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia’s daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on “Adjorobena,” a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song “Foliwilen” to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in “Djougoh” to talk about lazy people; and, in “Ndiagneko” she advises people to ignore critics, just do you.  

Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. “The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara. But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That’s why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs.”

Kanawa

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Nahawa Doumbia - Ndiagneko

New song from the forthcoming album by Nahawa Doumbia, out 29 January on Awesome Tapes From Africa.
Pre-order/stream http://smarturl.it/kanawa

Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N’gou Bagayoko. 

The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia’s daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on “Adjorobena,” a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song “Foliwilen” to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in “Djougoh” to talk about lazy people; and, in “Ndiagneko” she advises people to ignore critics, just do you.  

Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. “The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara. But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That’s why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs.”

Nahawa Doumbia - Blonda Yirini

Original song: Djorolen - Oumou Sangaré

Thanks for listening

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Outernational rhythms and sounds... a musical melting pot, mixing tropical ingredients from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. From traditional roots music and analog rhythms to the latest dancefloor grooves and digital sounds, we provide an original and authentic taste of global beat culture. DJs Magrelo + special guests provide you with this intercontinental soundtrack. Born from a passion to search far and wide for amazing music, Hotplate creates bespoke and unique musical experiences for parties, clubs & events.

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A soulful deejay and spiritual dancer.

Rhobodub worked at the first Ukrainian vinyl shop Diskultura and was a part of the Kyiv house scene. Then Thommy moved to L’viv where became a member of the Hypnohouse parties. Overall, Rhobodub performed in 14 countries.

Nowadays, Thommy lives in Chernivtsi—the most architecturally graceful city in Ukraine—manages the Hustlers community, and provides the four sweetest sides of music:
♥ deep, afro and soulful house;
♦ techstep, soulful and liquid drum & bass;
♣ digital dancehall, roots reggae and dub;
♠ West, East and South African music.

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growing bin records is a micro-label and online record store. With lots of love and affection we bring you music that is special to our ears. Well actually we're a one man business, but "we" sounds a bit more professional, or maybe even royal. Forget about that. We're small and not a bit royal and we'll stay small and loyal. Cheers!  If I should not react to your demo I probably didn't feel it, and I'm too shy to tell you.  Sorry but life is short and I don't release stuff that i feel 100%. Keep on keeping on! 
oh and the release plan for 2022 is already full

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We are an independent record label and a music production house, dedicated to the traditional and contemporary music of Mali. We record, edit, package and distribute original music by Malian artists. Mieruba was established in the ancient city of Ségou in 2007 and we are still based here.

 As an independent label, we make original music productions available to the general public under our own brand name, be they audio recordings or video clips. We do this, because we consider it our responsibility to preserve and promote Mali’s rich cultural and musical heritage and make new artistic discoveries. Between 2010 and 2018, Mieruba issued a series of eight albums, as part of its project The Lost Maestros. Almost all of the music was recorded here in Ségou. We are running a number of projects, alongside The Lost Maestros; we will present these shortly. Mali, our country, has earned worldwide fame for its art, especially its high-quality musical productions. We are considered Africa’s premier musical exporter. But in spite of all this artistic wealth, most of Mali’s artists release their work on labels outside the country. This is the main reason why we found it necessary to create a label here and call it Mieruba. 

At the origin of it all was our desire to create high-quality work in close collaboration with the artists themselves. And it this passion that continues to fuel everything we do. All of us, whether it is the label’s founder, the paid and unpaid workers, the interns and everyone else who works with us in the production and distribution – we all get our energy from this love for music. This is what propels us forward. Our mission really is to put front and centre the kind of music that often gets ignored by the mainstream. In this sense, we are part of a counterculture, standing firm against the kind of musical standardisation you can hear all around you. Through its musical productions, Mieruba helps to safeguard musical diversity and promote musical democracy. We want to become the passageway, taking the music from the realm of unpaid craftsmanship, through emergence and into the professional sphere.

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