Orchestra Baobab – Pirates Choice

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Réédité en 2001, puis en 2015 pour les 50 ans d’Orchestra Baobab, c’est l’occasion de redécouvrir Pirates Choice, enregistré à Dakar en 1982.

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Orchestra Baobab – Specialist in All Styles

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Specialist in All Styles is Orchestra Baobab’s 2002 comeback album, mixing Cuban and West African musics, Congolese rumba and Senegal’s own Mbalax, a subtle fusion, always rooted in traditional music.

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Sam Mangwana – Georgette

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“Georgette Eckins” on album “Sam Mangwana et l’African All Stars” released in 1978, when the band was rising.

The African All Stars is particularly aptly named, having featured no less than Dally Kimoko, Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Syran Mbenza among other emblematic signatures of Congolese rumba. In the late 70s, the orchestra accompanied Sam Mangwana on […]

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Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – Rejoice

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When Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela met in the 70s, during Apartheid, they talked about recording together. They had to wait till 2010 to work together in the UK, but the sessions were unfortunately archived. Finally, Rejoice has been released.

After Masekela passed away in 2018, the value of these recordings [...]

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Xalam – Festival Horizonte

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Xalam is a Senegalese band that’s known for its Jazz Fusion, mixing western instrumentation with traditional African percussion and rhythms. Ade is a live concert recorded at Festival Horizonte in Berlin in 1979 and their first international release.

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Orchestre de l’Université d’Abidjan (OUA) – Pétrole mouillé

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Créé dans les années 70-80 en Côte d’Ivoire, pour faire de la musique un élément d’épanouissement intellectuel et artistique des étudiants ainsi qu’un excellent instrument de pacification et d’éveil des consciences, voici l’Orchestre de l’Université d’Abidjan (OUA), groupe mythique de la scène [...]

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Fela Kuti – Why Black Man Dey Suffer

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On 1 January 1971, Fela changes his band’s name from Nigeria 70 to Africa 70. It is a breakthrough year for the group, which will remain the hottest attraction in Nigeria (and elsewhere in West […]

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