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Etuk Ubong ‘Black Debtors/Collaboration of Doom’ Afro7
Etuk Ubong (born June 25, 1992) is a trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Hailing from Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria, raised in Lagos, he started playing at the age of 14 thanks to his mother’s...
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The Scorpios ‘Mashena/Samha’ Afro7
The Sudanese London collective The Scorpios have been making waves the past few years after the Afro7 release of their acclaimed debut release. Voted album of the week last summer by Gilles Peterson,...
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Black Savage Afro7
The mid-seventies in Nairobi were a time of tremendous growth. In the first decade after independence, the city’s population doubled and the economy grew at a rapid pace. Pop culture experienced a...
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Various CBS EP 1980’s
It’s a been a long while with no posts at all, and what about all those dusty Kenyan 45’s that are lying around that need another review or a bigger audience? Well, there has been so much other stuff...
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The Cranes ‘What’s Love/Joy’ Afro7
The Cranes were one of Uganda’s most popular teenage bands in the 1970’s. Founded in 1965, they metamorphosed at the end of the 1970’s into the Afrigo Band which is still, up to today, the number one...
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Amabano ‘Amsterdam Ticket’
Even though African music of the past four decades is being rediscovered, catalogued and reissued by foreign labels at an accelerating speed, music from the East-Central African nation of Burundi...
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Yaseen & Party 60’s taarab compilation from Yaseen Mohamed Afro7
‘Harambe’ by Mac & Party was one of the most interesting recent rediscoveries of Kenyan taarab from the past decades. An English language taarab song with the prominent presence of an early...
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Undergrünnen Nå e me her (Single) Jansen Records
Undergrünnen are finally ready with the follow-up to the critically lauded and Spellemann nominated debut album. It was winter again and in Haugesund it rained, if possible, even more than before....
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa “This is East Africa” SAPRA
From the heart of untamed Africa, where savage nature still reigns supreme, comes this spell-binding series of records which have captured for you-in brilliant hi-fi the stirring sounds you thrilled to...
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa ‘Birdsong of Africa’ SAPRA
Side one 1. GREATER FLAMINGO (Phoenicopterus ruber): On many saline lakes of East Africa’s Great Rift Valley the Greater Flamingo’s beautiful deep-crimson wings, with their black flightfeathers can be...
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa ‘Animal Voices of Africa’ SAPRA
Side one 1. LIONS: Lionshave just brought down a wildebeest and are roaring triumphantly over the kill. As they begin to tear their victim to pieces, they snarl and growl at each other. 2. ZEBRAS:...
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa ‘ African Folk Music’ SAPRA
Side one 1. AKAMBA, of south-eastern Kenya, sing the “ng’eta” and stomp out the strond rhythm of a traditional dance. 2. ABALUYIA GROUP, with Africa’s one-stringed fiddle, and a song hummed by a...
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa ‘ Drums of Africa’ SAPRA
Side One 1. KILUME DANCE, of the fun-loving Akamba people, is sedately energetic and traditionally restricted to elders-of both sexes-of this large Kenya ethnic group. 2. TYPICAL OF BORDER DISTRICTS of...
View ArticleHeartbeat of Africa ‘Musical Rituals of the Giriama’ SAPRA
Side 1 a) GONDA: A bewitching dance for young adults. Girls don ostrich-feather Head-plumes and enticing skirts. Others wall as drums pound out rhythms in dramatic bursts of energetic ferocity. b)...
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Sportsman promotion single sung in ‘Swahili/English’
Happy new years, we’re back and it’s 2022, we promise to update the front page a little more often with new posts of vintage songs from the East African diaspora. Sportsman – a Cigarette brand from BAT...
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The Scorpios LET’S GO Afro7
“Everyone’s favourite Sudanese collective from London is back with another full album!” “Contains the monster club hit Mashena!” It’s been 5 years since the critically acclaimed debut album from the...
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