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Asnakech (LP) cover
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Asnakech Worku
Asnakech (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ]
There is perhaps no woman more cherished in modern Ethiopian history than Asnakech Worku. As a musician, actress, dancer and cultural icon, Asnakech inspired and challenged society for decades, until her death in 2011. From her beginnings as...
Uwami (LP) cover
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DJ Black Low
Uwami (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 7/May/2021 ]
Debut LP by the remarkable producer from Pretoria, South Africa who has a singular take on amapiano. In many ways, DJ Black Low's debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist's first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad...
Mbavaira (LP) cover
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Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People
Mbavaira (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 27/Aug/2021 ]
Mujuru was Zimbabwe's foremost mbira (thumb piano) player who brought Shona music to the world. -Available outside Zimbabwe for the first time. All-acoustic, calming music for these times. Mbira importance grew with the struggle for independence and...
Yene Mircha (LP) cover
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Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 27/Mar/2020 ]
It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the...
Tezeta (LP) cover
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Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band
Tezeta (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 4/Jun/2021 ]
From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple...
Lala Belu (LP) cover
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Hailu Mergia
Lala Belu (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 9/Mar/2018 ]
The "obscure outsider artist from beyond the west" has become a familiar trope for old music excavated in far-flung places, thanks in part to the eagle-eyed tape rummaging of intrepid label owners such as Brian Shimkovitz. Under his Awesome Tapes...
Teenage Dreams (LP) cover
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Native Soul
Teenage Dreams (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2 LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ]
Kgothatso Tshabalala is 19 years old and Zakhele Mhlanga (DJ Zakes) is 18. Their 12-track debut electronic music album, Teenage Dreams, is not easily dismissed as a project that shows their age, though. Teenage Dreams presents a youthful,...
Bafana Bafana (LP) cover
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Professor Rhythm
Bafana Bafana (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Nov/2017 ]
First time on vinyl -Key producer of early South African house music and kwaito Professor Rhythm is the production moniker of South African music man Thami Mdluli. Throughout the 1980's, Mdluli was member of chart-topping groups Taboo and CJB,...
Amapiano Selections cover
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Teno Afrika
Amapiano Selections
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ]
The past five years have seen amapiano, South Africa's electronic music movement born in the townships of the country's Gauteng province, evolve from an underground sound to a nationwide mainstream staple. Even with its commercial success though,...
Antoinette Konan cover
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Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ]
It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring...
Antoinette Konan (LP) cover
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Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 22/Nov/2019 ]
It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring...
Roger Bekono cover
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Roger Bekono
Roger Bekono
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ]
Cameroonian artist, musician, author, composer, performer and guitarist Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor, ribald intensity of bikutsi. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style...
Roger Bekono cover
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Bekono, Roger
Roger Bekono
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ]
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DJ Black Low
Impumelelo (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2 LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ]
There's more than a hint of ambition on the double LP sophomore effort from Sam Austin Rabede, the producer known as DJ Black Low. Pretoria, South Africa-born and based, the young man makes amapiano with new ways of expressing this local...
Uwami cover
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DJ Black Low
Uwami
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/May/2021 ]
Debut LP by the remarkable producer from Pretoria, South Africa who has a singular take on amapiano. In many ways, DJ Black Low's debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist's first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad...
Uwami II (LP) cover
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DJ Black Low
Uwami II (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2022 ]
The vinyl version of the rest of the songs from the digital version of DJ Black Low's breakthrough debut Uwami (2021). DJ Black Low burst on the international scene last year with Uwami, a collection of his early, downright avant-garde amapiano...
Trotro cover
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DJ Katapila
Trotro
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Awesome Tapes From Africa are releasing a re-issue of Ghanaian DJ, producer and rapper DJ Katapila's Trotro album. DJ Katapila started producing music in the late 90's at the age of 39, and as his set progressed, he began adding live rapping over...
Mbavaira cover
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Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People
Mbavaira
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ]
Mujuru was Zimbabwe's foremost mbira (thumb piano) player who brought Shona music to the world. -Available outside Zimbabwe for the first time. All-acoustic, calming music for these times. Mbira importance grew with the struggle for independence and...
Pioneer Works Swing (Live) cover
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Hailu Mergia
Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ]
Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA's expert audio extraction...
Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (LP) cover
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Hailu Mergia
Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ]
Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA's expert audio extraction...
Yene Mircha cover
add to cart $28.00 ETA: 2-5 business days
Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ]
It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the...
Tezeta cover
add to cart $23.00 ETA: 2-5 business days
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band
Tezeta
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ]
From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple...
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers cover
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Jess Sah Bi & Peter One
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ]
In the 1980s, Abidjan's Jess Sah Bi & Peter One became one of the most popular musical acts in not just the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), but broader West Africa, eventually performing with a full band to stadium-sized audiences at home and throughout...
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (LP) cover
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Jess Sah Bi & Peter One
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 17/Aug/2018 ]
In the 1980s, Abidjan's Jess Sah Bi & Peter One became one of the most popular musical acts in not just the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), but broader West Africa, eventually performing with a full band to stadium-sized audiences at home and throughout...
Lala Belu cover
add to cart $28.00 ETA: 2-5 business days
Hailu Mergia
Lala Belu
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ]
The "obscure outsider artist from beyond the west" has become a familiar trope for old music excavated in far-flung places, thanks in part to the eagle-eyed tape rummaging of intrepid label owners such as Brian Shimkovitz. Under his Awesome Tapes...
Kanawa cover
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Nahawa Doumbia
Kanawa
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ]
The meaning of "Kanawa" is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them while crossing the Sahara. Some climb over the wires across the borders and they have
La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1 cover
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Nahawa Doumbia
La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ]
Nahawa Doumbia is one of Mali's defining vocalists of the last four decades. Her work journeys through progressive stages of musical evolution and sonic vogues, making it hard to summarize or even comprehend. She's played a part in popular music...
Teenage Dreams cover
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Native Soul
Teenage Dreams
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ]
Kgothatso Tshabalala is 19 years old and Zakhele Mhlanga (DJ Zakes) is 18. Their 12-track debut electronic music album, Teenage Dreams, is not easily dismissed as a project that shows their age, though. Teenage Dreams presents a youthful,...
Kadi Yombo cover
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Papé Nziengui Et Son Groupe
Kadi Yombo
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ]
Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. Combining beating rattles with a layer of synthesizers, Papé Nziengui blends in a...
Yogo Yogo cover
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Penny Penny
Yogo Yogo
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ]
The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South African singer and dancer known for his trademark top ponytail and...
Yogo Yogo (LP) cover
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Penny Penny
Yogo Yogo (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ]
The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South African singer and dancer known for his trademark top ponytail and...
Professor 3 cover
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Professor Rhythm
Professor 3
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ]
Thami Mdluli's third instrumental album (which contains some background vocals, to be exact), portrays the moment when the dominant mbaqanga and American R&B-based bubblegum sounds being produced in Johannesburg and other urban centers were...
Professor 3 (LP) cover
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Professor Rhythm
Professor 3 (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jun/2018 ]
Thami Mdluli's third instrumental album (which contains some background vocals, to be exact), portrays the moment when the dominant mbaqanga and American R&B-based bubblegum sounds being produced in Johannesburg and other urban centers were...
En Hollande cover
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Sourakata Koite
En Hollande
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ]
Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, "All the Koité are musicians!" He is indeed a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians...
Liital LP cover
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Aby Ngana Diop
Liital LP
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. Taasu is a Wolof-language poetic style, usually performed by women griots over frenetic drum patterns, with an aggressive verbal flow thought to presage rap. Her...
Asnakech cover
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Asnakech Worku
Asnakech
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ]
There is perhaps no woman more cherished in modern Ethiopian history than Asnakech Worku. As a musician, actress, dancer and cultural icon, Asnakech inspired and challenged society for decades, until her death in 2011. From her beginnings as...
Obaa Sima b/w Adagya LP cover
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Ata Kak
Obaa Sima b/w Adagya LP
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Obaa Sima LP cover
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Ata Kak
Obaa Sima LP
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Ata Kak's cassette Obaa Sima fell on deaf ears when it was self-released in Ghana and Canada in 1994. The music on the recording - an amalgam of highlife, Twi-language rap, funk and disco - is presented with the passion of a Prince record and the...
Volume 7 cover
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Bola
Volume 7
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Bola is a singer and instrumentalist from Bolgatanga, Ghana who has been putting out tape after tape of ridiculously energetic and thoughtful songs for the last few years. Bola's Volume 7 has intense Frafra-language vocals, along with shredding...
Volume 7 LP cover
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Bola
Volume 7 LP
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Bola is a singer and instrumentalist from Bolgatanga, Ghana who has been putting out tape after tape of ridiculously energetic and thoughtful songs for the last few years. Bola's Volume 7 has intense Frafra-language vocals, along with shredding...