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Umoja
707
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 5/May/2017 ]
A monumental career in pop music isn't easy when the system is built against you. But South African songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist "Om" Alec Khaoli managed to do just that. As apartheid reached its violent peak, Khaoli pursued an...
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Teno Afrika
Amapiano Selections
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 26/Mar/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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sourakata Koite
En Hollande (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - 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...
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Hailu Mergia
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Hailu Mergia is an Ethiopian one-man-band accordion/keyboardist extraordinaire. Hailu made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings. Hailu Mergia's beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian...
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Hailu Mergia
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Hailu Mergia is an Ethiopian one-man-band accordion/keyboardist extraordinaire. Hailu made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings. Hailu Mergia's beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian...
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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...
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Papé Nziengui Et Son Groupe
Kadi Yombo
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / Cassette - 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...
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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...
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Papé Nziengui Et Son Groupe
Kadi Yombo (LP)
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2 LP - released 20/May/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...
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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
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Na Hawa Doumbia
La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3 LP
[ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ]
Na Hawa Doumbia's La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3 marks the first release for new label Awesome Tapes From Africa, a blog and DJ project known worldwide for shedding light on obscure and wonderful musical treasures from the African...