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BONGO WENDE the colossus of congolese guitar music. listen to this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0R-ZqlPRuU also listen to the bass guy... such a cool style. here's the whole set. look at lita bembo's onstage moves. his pelvis. the buildup to the change at like 13:00... ugh. I read these dudes used to play full sets on TV in Kinshasa NIGHTLY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFaKNhY3mhA also in a totally different vein S.E. Rogie, Palm Wine Guitar Music. mellow and beautiful, from Sierra Leone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDO_o-w9vj0
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Ronnie Moipolai from Botswana. This guy died in 2018 but not before going viral as gently caress with this perfect piece of footage that singlehandedly justifies youtube's continued existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4cRw6TIIg
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Jan 26, 2020 22:44
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Angola: gently caress, listen to this. Makes me want to throw away all north american guitar music as a waste of effort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJobEbqsE_k Another angolan track, this time sampled by a portuguese DJ (Batida)... while Batida is great I really wanna find the original sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MVa3hrWp8 likewise this one which builds beautifully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiypfOcRTs
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and if you need beautiful, lengthy Nigerian guitar tracks to play while cooking, living your life, etc. I highly recommend Kabaka International Guitar Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NozH22-Y7OA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-WHUZJB6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s16AvaAyYY a 16 minute monster Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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PTSDeedly Do posted:it’s so awesome to see someone make extremely chromatic chords work for them. This is from the 1960s? 1974. They were called Os Jovens do Prenda - the youths of Prenda, which I think was the suburb of Luanda they were from. Active 68-74, and then 81-now with some personnel changes.
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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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQi6h4U2yg Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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resurrecting this thread with this nigerian highlife album from '77, like it says in the name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxEYvuSqRc I could see like 8 copies of this album in this legendary record digging picture (of frank "voodoo funk" gossner) and wanted to see if it was good. If you like highlife, it's good. If you don't like highlife or haven't heard much of it, you should prepare to relax to some long grooves. 
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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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May 14, 2021 12:54
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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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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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Busy Twist - Friday Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-OPl2CpD-I
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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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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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Jun 16, 2021 23:08
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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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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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unbelievable posts in this thread. where am I. why isn't this being shat upon or somehow turned into 50 pages of bayonetta sequel talk or something. why is there three pages of loving sick rear end music nobody I know in person would be interested in sharing with me. hell yeah edit: for content I stumbled across the sample source for the above posted Busy Twist song, which unsurprisingly is also a great song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0gkZYRtrQ Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 30, 2021 |
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I think I heard this on one of Frank "voodoofunk" Gossner's mixes back in the day and it was the gateway to a 15 year interest in african music that went beyond fela and king sunny ade. This is a mega classic to me. I was reminded of it because of the boogie track posted upthread with the same title, Makom Ma Bobe, no relation I can discern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4B88-aJHnw and for fun here's a third Makom Ma Bobe that seems unrelated to the other two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lKSW4I0hLk that song title, which I don't know the translation of, is batting 1.000
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PTSDeedly Do posted:I’ve been listening to Simba Wanyika lately wow what a record!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arTBp7MQiM throw down the cardboard 2 this
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wise fwom yo gwave african guitar thread!! BAZUKA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q01LPzoDrHQ
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african guitar thread re-animator strikes yet again. i will never stop, not until each and every one of us is dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKffizZe6Dc oh poo poo this youtube channel guy is one of those african-record-obsessed barranquilla colombia dudes and has loads of good poo poo. seriously check this channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSOU21wuH1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24iiFX7O-E4 why is there such deep african music collecting and love in barranquilla? oh. people have written about this. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/08/columbia-african-music-palenque https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/colombia/barranquilla-world-capital-african-music-37287/
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Makuesons (Gerard Akueson) from Togo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tthqLVO_3qA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwu-Dm4kjk8 very afro-latin sound to this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Sgd-m1KIM Some nice female vocal harmony from madagascar, Vola sy Noro "Aza Kivy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp31Nm9ZhAc
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ry-co jazz (Rhythm-Congo) - "Marie-José (meringue scoubidou)" uhh meringue scooby doo? what? whatever listen to this guitar work. hang out till it gets "heavier" if you can call it that at 3:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM--5zeoCA
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BACK ONCE AGAIN WITH THE MALOMBO JAZZ MAKERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zz4kXTM5aE
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PTSDeedly Do posted:Anybody in the thread make music like this? I've been trying sporadically over the last two years or so while recording other styles of music and it definitely is hard music to record multitrack (plus my rhythm isn't great when it comes to 16th note feel). I'm a drummer and occasionally add some little tony allen type lick or pattern to what I normally mess with, which is funk. but no concentrated effort to do it with any authenticity. I have some afro-latin percussion too and don't really know what I'm doing on it except having fun. that's not nothing, I can sometimes sound good on them, but it's not a result of serious study, just listening all my life to black diaspora music. like you say, this stuff is best developed in a band setting. but not impossible to do in a bedroom multitrack
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upon first listen I immediately went "I better listen to that again" and can't stop. not guitar heavy, sue me. this thread can forgive me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIvasx8CrE here, when that video runs out, here it is again so you don't have to wait for the repeat button to appear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIvasx8CrE Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 21, 2023 |
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https://youtu.be/_MGOk5XyH3w
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yugioh mishima posted:it occurred to me that maybe nobody posted ‘ivory’ by kio amachree in here so i came in here to post ‘ivory’ by kio amachree just in case Thank you for these tunes. "Ivory" needs a roller boogie rink full of people doing formation moves to it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfltqOm5LmE i was just in a record shop and some elfin hipster in a linen dress was flipping records behind the counter and she put this on. drat. this track makes me verklempt.
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sao tome & principe, sangazuza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_do7rvpFgZA
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