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Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble, Fela Kuti, Music, New York City on June 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Youssou N’Dour
Posted in Music, tagged film, Islam, Music, Senegal, video, Youssou N'Dour, Youssouh N'Dour on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Senegalese-born N’Dour talks about his career and “I Bring What I Love“, the new documentary film about his music, on Canadian TV program, Studio Q.
‘Fela’ is a West African Idol
Posted in television, tagged American Idol, Fela Kuti, Music, Nigeria, reality television, Simon Cowell, vaudeville, West African Idol, You can't make this stuff up on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Zim Ngqawana plays New York City
Posted in Music, tagged jazz, live events in New York City, Music, Vision Jazz Festival, Zim Ngqawana on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saxophone player and bandleader Zim Ngqawana (you can hear a bit of Abdullah Ibrahim in Zim’s music) this Friday in the annual Vision Jazz Festival in Lower Manhattan. Here’s the details.
Friday, June 12th, on the Abrons Main Stage, 466 Grand Street
11:00 pm
Collective Quartet
featuring: Zim Ngqawana – sax
Matthew Shipp – piano
William Parker – bass
Nasheet Waits – drums
HT: Marlon Burgess.
fresh botswana riddims
Posted in Music, tagged Botswana, dancehall, hip hop, kwaito, Music, Ruff Riddims, Skeat on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lot more going in Botswana than just Alexander McCall Smith’s imagination and President Ian Khama‘s social life.
Like the people behind Ruff Riddims) who are producing good music, like Skeat’s “Meropa.”
HT: Wayne and Wax
‘feisty little brown girl’
Posted in Music, tagged Andre 3000, Brixton, electro pop, electronic music, Grace Jones, London, Mpho Skeef, Music, Prince on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The lead single, “Box n Locks” from the debut album of London-raised, South African born Mpho (Skeef) (she’s the daughter of South African musician, Sipho ‘Hotsticks’ Mabuse)
Sample more of her music (including a free album mp3 mix, go here.
Shingai Shoniwa
Posted in Music, tagged Music, Shingai Shoniwa, The Noisettes, Zimbabwe on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brit-band The Noisettes‘ “Never Forget You” (from the album ‘Wild Young Hearts’) featuring the voice of part-Zimbabwean lead singer, Shingai Shoniwa.
nina simone sells music videos
Posted in television, tagged blackness, Buffalo Souljah, DA L.E.S., Gal Level, Hugh Masekela, identity politics, Ikechukwu, Lira, Lizha James, Loyiso, Music, Nina Simone, Pebbles, Stoan, Taygrin, video, Young Gifted and Black, Yvonne Chaka Chaka on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am not sure what to make of this video for a brand campaign for Channel O, an African-based MTV-clone. The advertising executives behind the campaign, stripped Nina Simone’s 1968 charged anthem, “Young, Gifted and Black,” from its radical politics, to sell the channel’s consumption-driven identity. (A top-heavy line-up of the continent’s pop stars–Ikechukwu, Lizha James, Buffalo Souljah, Stoan, and Gal Level, among others–line up to sing the lyrics).
[Here, the advertising executives behind the campaign explain the "movement." and here's the campaign's Facebook page].
I guess identity politics is always for sale.
Playlist: Jeremy Weate
Posted in Music, tagged Jeremy Weate, Music, My Playlist, Naijablog, Playlist on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Playlist is back. The latest guest is Jeremy Weate. He blogs as Naijablog (one of my daily bookmarks), is behind Cassava Republic Press in Abuja (with his partner, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf) and has a hand in the new Nigerian newspaper, NEXT, that has everyone talking.
For his playlist, Jeremy picked “… music that utterly inspires me to the bottom of my soul and back up again – guaranteed mood-lifters”
mos def channels fela kuti
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, hip hop, Mos Def, Music on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Large parts of Mos Def’s new album, “The Ecstatic,” has been leaked already. That does not put a damper on the anticipation.
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