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We daily post a new artist from any place in the world. We also add a short review so if the band is new to you, you get to know something about it. Once in a while, we post articles and other fun stuff related to music.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'africa'
Dhafer Youssef - The Jazzy Sufi Music
The warm sound of the Oud, a string instrument from the Arab region similar to the lute, is the main gift that Dhafer Youssef offers to this flux. This musician, composer, singer and, of course, Oud player, was born in Tunisia, but has recorded...
Simphiwe Dana – The Political South African Diva
The vibrant voice of this South African woman makes me remember some soul and jazz divas. But the sound of Xshosa, the language she uses in her lyrics, and her unusual rhythmic patterns, are the best proof of her music's African essence. Regarded b...
Daara J – A Rapper Boomerang
'The School of life' is the meaning in Wolof of Daara J's name, a Senegalese rap group. Through English, French and Spanish, they sing tunes in the Tassou style, a native musical form which recites the daily life and the opinions of the Senegalese p...
Thomas Mapfumo - Revolutionary Struggle
‘Chimurenga’ is the Shona word for ‘struggle’. This was the word picked by Thomas Mapfumo, to call his music style, a fusion of Zimbabwean traditional music and rock, where the guitar is played as if it was a mbira, a very popular instrument...
Les boukakes – The räi rock
'Boukake', a term composed of the words 'monkey' and 'Moorish' (in french), is an insult to denigrate North African people who have immigrated to France. Les Boukakes, a band whose members come from countries like Tunisia, Algeria, Kurdistan, Corsica...
Ba Cissoko - The Jimi Hendrix of Kora
The epic songs of the Mandingo tribe are the main inspiration to Ba Cissoko, widely regarded as the Master of kora and the most gifted pupil of the legendary musician M'Bady Kouyaté. Ba Cissoko has been called the Jimi Hendrix or the Eric Clapton of...
Julien Jacob – The nonsense of pure sound
When you listen to a song in a foreign language, it happens that if you like its sound, then you ask about its meaning. But, what would you think about a musician that invented a new language only to highlight the sound of the words, a language that ...
Kevin Volans - Africanization of European music
Between African and European music there is a gap that not only consists of the compositional style and instrumentation, but which goes as deep as the attitude towards the individual in society. While in European music there’s a tendency to make t...
Ali Hassan Kuban - Nubian jazz
When he was a child, Ali Hassan Kuban used to sing in the boats that sailed over the Nile river.Born in Nubia, a town in the south of Egypt, Hassan Kuban used a vocal style popular in that region, which years later would turn into really catchy melod...
X Plastaz – Masaai MC’s
Based in Arusha, a small town of Tanzania, X plastaz has become one of the most successful hip hop groups of East Africa. Its mix consists of a fast rapping in swahili (that sounds very rhythmic, by the way) combined with the traditional chants of th...
Fela Kuti – The afrobeat ‘president’
‘AIDS is the illness of white man’ said Fela Kuti, a Nigerian singer, keyboard, sax and trumpet player, before his death, caused by the Acquired Inmunodeficiency Syndrome. Kuti, the creator of the Afrobeat rythm, never accepted that this diseas...
Nameless - Good energy for everyone
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who have got names and those who are nameless”. Thus starts the hip hop song Megarider, that in 1999 led David Mathenge, better known as Nameless, to fame. Although he didn’t have formal tra...
Baobab Orchestra - Senegal
In the mid seventies, the Baobab Orchestra was considered one of the best bands in Africa. The fusion of many different cultural elements of afro cuban music (popular since the 40's in Dakar) and Senegalese music, characterized it. A proof of the orc...
Gigi - International voice born in Ethiopia
It was a surprise to me to find out that the music I related with the desert in my childhood was actually the music of Ethiopia. You know, the music of the snake charmers, with those rapid notes on wind instruments. It was even more surprising to le...
