King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
in post jùjú from Spinning in Air .
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GENERAL/INDUSTRY: Herbie Hancock | 06.23.08 | New York
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Words by: Nick Atlas | Images by: Amanda Ryan Albion Herbie Hancock :: 06.23.08 :: Carnegie Hall :: New York, NY Lionel Loueke New York's Carnegie Hall was buzzing with electricity as a packed house journeyed through previously uncharted symphonic soundscapes with jazz master Herbie Hancock and his latest ensemble...
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World Music Spices Up Summerstage
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Saturday, June 28th 3:00 p.m.: Vieux Farka Touré, Fallou Dieng, Kaleta & Zozo Afrobeat, DJ Sirak With the DNA of his father–the Malian legend Ali Farka Touré–running through his veins, and the Mississippi delta in his soul, Vieux Farka Touré exudes the blues with a global perspective. Warm and seductive, his skills bring the deepest blues [...]
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Nigeria: Thisday's Third 'Africa Rising' Festival Goes Global
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
THISDAY is set to revolutionise the way awareness is raised for African issues through the annual Thisday Festival. This year's festival with the theme 'Africa Rising' will focus on finding "sustainable solutions" rather than the "problems" facing Africa.
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HALL OF KINGS
Running The Voodoo Down (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
All the Kings on my iPod (not including Elvis): King Ayisoba Feat. Kontihene, Kwabena Kwabena & Kwaku-T King Crimson King Culture King Curtis King Everald King Jammy King Kong King Nando King Stitt & The Dynamites King Sunny Ade King Tee King Tubby
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Party Beats
with comb & razor (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Well, this is a bit of an oddity. Throughout the 1980s, the name "Nkono Teles" (or sometimes "Nkono Telex") was a regular feature in the credits of records by an array of Nigerian artists ranging from new wave funk and boogie acts like Dizzy K. Falola, Mandy Brown Ojugbana and Jombo to reggae upstarts like Majek Fashek and Ras Kimono to respected old hands like King Sunny Ade and Fela. What is remembered...
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La Radiolina
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Celestine Ukwu - Okwukwe na Nchekwube (via) (Nigeria Special: 1970-1976) A very relaxing track with hints to Cuban Danzón and a very exquisite and almost metronomic slide guitar. Kino from the liner notes: “An extremely popular, deeply philosophical and empowering track, Okwukwe Na Nchekwube (’faith and trust’) was recorded in 1974 by the rising star of the [...]
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No reason to fear Vampire Weekend
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Music writers have been falling all over themselves reciting a litany of Vampire Weekend kindred spirits: Orchestra Baobab, Paul Simon's "Graceland," David Byrne and an assortment of other Afro-pop super bands.
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Nigeria's Nashvillian Number One
with comb & razor (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
In the United States, conventional wisdom regards country & western music as a uniquely American cultural product imbued with inherent negro-repellent qualities. In fact, in popular culture the sticky sweet twang of the pedal steel guitar has become synonymous with--to poach a phrase from Randy Newman--"keepin' the niggers down" (much like clawhammer banjo has become a sonic cue for images of forcible...
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Live: King Sunny Ade @ UCLA, 4.27.05
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
All photos by David Greenwald Before there was Upper West Side Soweto , there was King Sunny Ade . The Nigerian musician once hailed as the African Bob Marley brought his band and beats to UCLA back when I was a wee college sophomore. More photos after the jump. [Continue reading...] *** I bring my camera to shows. Click below for more Concert Photos .
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Africa: Globacom, Taking African Football to Another Height-Hayatou
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
The Glo-CAF Awards for the year 2007 which held in the Togolese capital of Lome on February 1, 2008 has come and gone but the sweet-bitter memories still lingers.
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Kanoute Crowned Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year 2007
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Malian striker Frederic Kanoute was Friday named the Glo-CAF African footballer of the year 2007. Kanoute, who becomes the second Malian after the legendary Salif Keita to receiv e the topmost individual prize in African football, beat last year's winner Didi e r Drogba of Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana's Michael Essien to the title.
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This Ain't No Disco
Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
I’ve missed a lot of great bar and night club music performances in my 54 years. But I’ve managed to see a few goodies. I list the ten most memorable. The Mills Brothers The Mills Brothers, Fairmont Venetian Room, Dallas, c. 1977 This show was memorable because it was a chance to see legends (who’d been performing [...]
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Metro Area - RMM Special Dub (excerpt)
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
in post King Sunny Ade + Metro Area from 33/45 .
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Bumbershoot 2007: Your Guide to Surviving the Chaos
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007
Dylan W. : Photo by Merelymel13 Yes, this is pretty much what we posted last year and the year before , but it's revised with brand-new content. Kinda how there's a new greatest hits album that includes a different throwaway track from the last greatest hits album. But not a lot changes about Bumbershoot from year to year. Same chances to take in musical acts and genres you wouldn't normally listen...
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