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THE AFRICAN GUITAR THREAD REANIMATOR STRIKES AGAIN D.O. Misiani from Tanzania/Kenya. "The grandfather of Benga". Song called Helen Nya Kisungu. 1974 old video (keC4Ppjl4eA) removed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxxSGtuzzW0 If youtube comments are to be trusted - and why not considering anyone talking about this song is doing so in Spanish - apparently Colombians love this track because it got used in some epic DJ duel in the 90s in Barranquilla. Weird. But what a dope track. Even the label on the record goes, check out that King Kong illustration Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Glad to see this thread resurrected. It's sent me on an 18 month binge into African music in general, and my wallet to Bandcamp. Ralph Hurley posted:Mdou Moctar from Niger is incredible. Just the best guitar music in the world right now. Same label has this fantastic group: https://lesfillesdeillighadad.bandcamp.com/album/eghass-malan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIAOG9nhrt8 Also, have discovered this awesome album in my wanderings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4wuaH_EJI
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Marijata is a mid 2000s rare groove collector holy grail, hell yeah. Nice post, I will be checking out the other stuff as I recover from my vaccine injection
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Ah, great thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxeDecgNWg
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drat what a great thread. I really need to know more about African music. I can't contribute much myself except to echo a previous poster that "King" Sunny Ade is an all-time great for me too. One of my most top 10 favorites from the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBxreBgrJSA
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Ba Cissoko is known more for the Kora, but they play it electric, and they play it with the virtuosity of Hendrix/Paganini combined. They kick rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EoJ348Je0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LRPstr3Fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4k8sd7vC0w
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petit choux posted:drat what a great thread. I really need to know more about African music. I can't contribute much myself except to echo a previous poster that "King" Sunny Ade is an all-time great for me too. My King Sunny post doesn't start with this track anymore and that's hosed up. This is what it's supposed to start with. Epiphany poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Col5h0_3dfw WTF this took three tries to find a link to the whole song. You need all 11 minutes Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 17:42 on May 14, 2021 |
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petit choux posted:drat what a great thread. I really need to know more about African music. I can't contribute much myself except to echo a previous poster that "King" Sunny Ade is an all-time great for me too. One of my most top 10 favorites from the 80s: Just clicked that link. That song was featured in O.C. and Stiggs! You know, the weird Robert Altman (!) 80s teen comedy where two discontented teens conspire to get King Sunny Ade to play a concert in Scottsdale AZ by blackmailing their drama teacher, featuring Dennis Hopper as a psychotic Nam vet who pilots a helicopter gunship to help them lay siege to the McMansion of their sworn enemy, insurance kingpin Randall Schwab, and a very young Cynthia Nixon as the love interest. King Sunny said in an interview many years later that he never even saw the final movie he'd played a major part in and had two massive musical interludes in Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 14, 2021 |
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African Disco was a rare but special treat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQpVU_gVUA Also is 80s Africa synthpop okay to post? This song is dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdo-xntr_FM
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Straying from guitars into jazz fusion for a moment, the drums on this are sick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsLbJ5pYKM Edit: Would roll through Lagos listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIA4kTMbfSg
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Busy Twist - Friday Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-OPl2CpD-I
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Simple but very good, this song by Nelson Mulligo of the Malawi Mouse Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfyZ5U7PBKQ Handen posted:Ba Cissoko is known more for the Kora, but they play it electric, and they play it with the virtuosity of Hendrix/Paganini combined. They kick rear end. love me some kora music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig91Z0-rBfo talking about different African string instruments, the kologo/xalam is also amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVWBTkniw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAUyc2lqX4 And not to forget one of my favourite African bands, Kokoko! from Kinshasa, who build their own instruments from trash and scavenged parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7MgcgqaZA
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Time to bring out the big guns, all time great from Nigeria, international breakout star, "one of the most influential musicians of all time", no I'm not talking about Fela Kuti, but jůjú legend King Sunny Ade. If you know Fela (or don't) and not Ade, get familiar or you're loving up. I dare you to listen to the first track on this and not have some kind of life changing epiphany experience Was going to post this. Pro click.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZo-rn_AAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqPzkgOaE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o19QJ6ytjGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbZ1N3LNOSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1qZOG5LF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpZyFaFJHs Banano fucked around with this message at 00:58 on May 15, 2021 |
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Three singles from the late 60s in one YouTube video. These are all great. Edit: the fourth song is a cover of “if you’re going to San Francisco” where the singer clearly has no idea what the English words are and is singing it phonetically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfnW6-MhTB8 This is a FANTASTIC rock album from Ngozi Family of Zambia. It seems to have been recently remastered which is great because the download I had sounded poorly mixed or something but the songs are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQujakN2TU Ralph Hurley fucked around with this message at 23:44 on May 17, 2021 |
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This video and tune have been stuck in my head for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmfOg7fppQ
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Just discovered the Songhoy Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkGB6u3sYk It's a loving jam TontoCorazon fucked around with this message at 05:24 on May 21, 2021 |
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Finally got this record delivered the other day, and putting it on a turntable is like moving in space and time https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/afrique-victime And got a Kenda Bongo Man album in the mail today.
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PHILOPHON - this whole label is great, here's a few tracks. Some are more guitary than others but they're all doap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxx9thEfeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVp_4q-qLhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLILw4uHYKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRO3zfNUz0
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Sidi Toure - Bon Koum from his album Sahel Folk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dRbi6Jpfss
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anybody into records might want to jump onto https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/ one of my favorite London record shops, who have come up on a LOAD of UNPLAYED BENIN AFRO/FUNK 45s and LPs with some NICE GUITAR WORK for 40 great british pounds each. yes that's a lot for a 7 inch single. but if you (like me) have ever tried to own an african record you know that finding a good condition african press is basically impossible unless you are bill gates or something. I swear I don't work there or anything, I just want to stress to you that if you ever want to own a good-rear end african song on an original press record from Actual Africa and have it not be in A+ MOST ANNIHILATED condition, you might check out the top of their page for a bunch of el rego, orchestre poly-rythmo and other stuff. you can listen to them and see. here's an unrelated angolan rock song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw_AwmdJ5Ao Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Ebo Taylor has had a huge bump in western interest thanks to compilations and reissues. He is great. gently caress what a good song. Also: maybe the best album art of all time??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwg0uY41n84 here's another feel good summer song from Ebo Taylor and a big-rear end band he did a holy grail album with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCfpY-Lm17c Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFgxeoMygk this was re-issued recently so everyone should buy it
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slow high life - a genre of music you can also view as a good ethos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7lNTikK7s
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:This thread fuckin owns Boy oh boy does it. Please everybody, keep it coming!
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Music from a Bwiti ritual. Sort of a guitar.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pVHKv2PxQ8&t=48s And this album is a pip! https://soundcloud.com/user-782178392/musicrepublic-gabon-musiques-des-mitsogho-et-des-bateke-ocora-84
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wicked uptempo funk workout with spacey guitar and endless keyboard solos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG4mLTCw9Yw rest of the album is really good too 
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Hoping I won't offend anybody by including a Haitian performer. I mistook him for African music but I just heard him on the street and asked the dude what he was listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhZbdv88dA
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petit choux posted:Hoping I won't offend anybody by including a Haitian performer. I mistook him for African music but I just heard him on the street and asked the dude what he was listening to: Not really doing it for me (some part of that is definitely the video, but there’s no point dissecting it,) but thank you for doing your part to keep this thread alive.
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Discernibly Turgid posted:Not really doing it for me (some part of that is definitely the video, but there’s no point dissecting it,) but thank you for doing your part to keep this thread alive. Yeah sorry, this is Soca, totally different. I will try to find something else. ED: I also see I posted a pretty horny video. Sorry, I only just watched it. I mostly just listen to videos. petit choux fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Sep 25, 2021 |
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petit choux posted:Yeah sorry, this is Soca, totally different. I will try to find something else. ED: I also see I posted a pretty horny video. Sorry, I only just watched it. I mostly just listen to videos. To be clear: my “thank you,” for resuscitating the thread was completely un-ironic. The song/video is purely a matter of personal taste (and I’m not in a stone-throwing position on matters of taste) and some combo of the music/punchable face didn’t do it for me. Soca is cool and good (in my opinion, at least) and I’m in this thread in the first place because of Dr Nico/African Fiesta and the whole Soukisa thing. Pretty sure they’re strongly related/derivative. No apologies for what you like, as long as it’s genuinely what you like. https://youtu.be/koR8p7Rbxi0
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Delicious track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6kgC-3s7Xg
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what is this... 1969, Cote D'Ivoire, ok... why does it sound like a nuyorican boogaloo track? boogaloo was kinda a flash in the pan even in its home country. so loving cool. music was moving transatlantic in both directions in such cool ways at this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_bxFvxuho
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put your roller skates on, it's like the nigerian hollywood swinging. bassline kills it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKdyG2f7yE
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^^ that is wicked, i have just ordered the re-issue. that bass is loving outrageous
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mad 6/1 sandwich for a rinky dink 4/4 organ solo, apparently seeing this band live convinced Fela he was going to have to pursue success outside of west Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pW1WKeGBXE then with the left hand, do it to the right. and to the front. and to the back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYrcEBBwhwU i got my groove, what about you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJbONm-iOc
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