#Video - US Voices Against the Blockade Episode 2: Imani Bashir
https://peertube.world/w/oBRgayfhyQKmpGizL1YXZj

[from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Duration - 2:02

#ImaniBashir is a Black American activist from Washington D.C. She visited to #Cuba following a radical political tradition, one that includes Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and Kwame Ture, figures who understood the #CubanRevolution as part of a broader struggle for liberation.

For Bashir, visiting Cuba wasn't just political, it was personal. Seeing #AfroCuban people, she says, was seeing people who look like her, who share her history, who have maintained their culture and dignity under decades of sanctions.

Her argument on the #blockade is straightforward: Cuba has never been a threat to the US. It has never put #US safety, its food supply, or resources at stake. "It has only been the other way around," she says.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

#Jazz #AfroCuban #Fusion #Piano #Percussion

Have been looking for this gem for a long time, had it on tape, this is just a fantastic record, don't miss this, high speed Afro-Cuban-Jazz.

Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Live in Havana 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXY_DVWxlYw
(Note: the yt version is not the same, couldn't find the one published on Messidor)

Saroyé – In Lèr

https://amf.didiermary.fr/saroye-in-ler-ti-meline/

L’objectif du groupe Saroyé dans l’album In Lèr, paru en juin 2023, est de proposer une rencontre entre le maloya et la rumba cubaine.

Saroyé s’est formé autour du chanteur réunionnais Luc Moindranzé Karioudja, avec la Compagnie 4000. “Ti Meline montre ce que le maloya traditionnel peut proposer à partir d’un kayamb, d’un triangle et […]

#AfroCuban #LaRéunion #Maloya #ReunionIsland

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Le Star Band de Dakar

https://amf.didiermary.fr/star-band-dakar/

Star Band was a music group from Senegal, the resident band of Dakar’s Miami Club. They, along with the many off-shoots of the band, are responsible for many of the crucial developments in Senegalese popular music.

For Senegal, importing Cuban culture could achieve the ultimate goal — dignity — and radically change the notion of […]

#60smusic #AfroCuban #Cuba #Sénégal #OldAfricanMusic

Gnonnas Pedro – Yiri Yiri Boum

https://amf.didiermary.fr/yiri-yiri-boum-gnonnas-pedro/

The late Gnonnas Pedro was the first real Beninese hitmaker, long before becoming Africando’s lead singer in the 90s. Known for taking inspiration from his local music roots, he was also famous for using Salsa and other Latino rhythms in his songs, as a solo artist or with his Dadjes Band. Gnonnas started his career […]

#AfroCuban #Bénin #Cover #GnonnasPedro

Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes

https://amf.didiermary.fr/gnonnas-pedro-dadjes-dadje-von-o-von-non/

Gnonnas Pedro [with or without his Dadjes band] had always excelled in many styles of music but if one had to associate him with a particular genre it would be Agbadja. Agbadja is a rhythm hugely popular in Togo, Benin and Ghana. Its based […]

#60smusic #70smusic #AfroCuban #AfroFunk #Agbadja #Bénin #Compilation #GnonnasPedro