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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... |
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
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... |
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... |
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... |
Ata Kak
Obaa Sima b/w Adagya LP [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
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... |
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... |
Bekono, Roger
Roger Bekono [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
DJ Katapila
Aroo (12") [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 12in - released 23/Mar/2018 ] DJ Katapila's Aroo EP is the latest addition to the iconoclastic producer's catalog of fast-paced, pan West African-influenced dance music. |
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... |
DJ Katapila
Trotro (LP) [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - 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... |
Dur-Dur Band
Dur-Dur Band Volume 5 [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ] This classic Somali band's 1987 recording captures some of the incredible sounds happening in Mogadishu during that era. Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia’s contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was... |
Dur-Dur Band
Dur-Dur Band Volume 5 [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia’s contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant. Seeking inspiration outside the impressive array of Somali traditional music that was encouraged at... |
