more info here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-alkibar-junior-bring-music-back-to-mali
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:04 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk4mn4CKVXA
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:06 (two months ago) link
curmudgeon asked: "Did you get anything?"
I got these, all are wonderful:https://awapoulo.bandcamp.com/album/poulo-waralihttps://hailumergia.bandcamp.com/album/pioneer-works-swing-livehttps://lesfillesdeillighadad.bandcamp.com/album/les-filles-de-illighadadhttps://lesfillesdeillighadad.bandcamp.com/album/at-pioneer-works
I was already familiar with the Awa Poulo and first Les Filles albums and threw down some cash to keep myself honest.Love love love Hailu Mergia and will buy anything he puts out.
― ernestp, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link
Nice haul
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:41 (two months ago) link
Sahel Sounds Go Fund Me fundraiser to get instruments for for Alkibar Jr , still going
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:43 (two months ago) link
So this old-school promoter who doesn’t plan well in advance or research well is booking the Bassekou Kouyate tour ( that is skipping DC because she insists band wants a guarantee in advance and no venue will do that) and she’s booking the Mokoomba tour . For Mokoomba I have now given her a list of clubs and contact information. Hopefully she will be successful
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 13:22 (two months ago) link
She means well.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:29 (two months ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/13/el-wali-the-shapeshifting-voice-of-saharan-struggle?fbclid=PAAaY3Ka6zGNehxSS4q6_8tb39tkjrPsJ028zRSuHhuCpq5roj4E2aEz6jY8c_aem_AUK1BEloS0B1zNJD_lchzx8mhISkqEq1-LvBLpqR-I355qNIiKXgqyXGE3W5W5VLi5Q
El Wali from Saharan Sahel
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 March 2024 05:32 (two months ago) link
Florence Adooni debut album is on its way on Philophon, new single is wonderful:
https://florenceadooni.bandcamp.com/album/uh-ah-song
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 1 April 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
...and this is a different song from a festival appearance last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypv0_LM4c60
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 1 April 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
pure heat
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 1 April 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link
Yes to Florence Adooni and she and her band’s frafra music.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 April 2024 19:22 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR51MWK_o2M
South African singer Thandiswa Mazwai on Tiny Desk Global Fest .
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 05:08 (two months ago) link
Christopher Kirkley of Sahel Sounds has a nts show coming up on Thursday called Autotune the World
https://www.nts.live/shows/christopher-kirkley
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:12 (two months ago) link
Qwanqwa are going to put out a live album soon I hear.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:18 (one month ago) link
Cute South African kids band Biko's Manna are in the US doing some gigs now. They've gone viral on tiktok and Instagram reels, and Jennifer Hudson loves them
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:21 (one month ago) link
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2024/04/08/video-premiere-tidiane-thiam-yewende/?fbclid=PAAaZT3YdXx5SX0fYFCIAMr8TyeD6CcKqQslr1JpPpBTfKmS79GHx9iLlEa1g_aem_AdIfu64s3SSibzALmp-Ybr5c3u8L2MZD-dQ3oDxFKeUlSeirtqxCBWxjG11CIH-fz3I
Tidiane Thism from Senegal getting mellow on Sahel Sounds
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 00:30 (one month ago) link
Thiam
https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/rail-band
Mississippi records has reissued on vinyl an old 70s album from Mali’s Rail Band
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
Was out of town and missed recent gigs by Sona Jobarteh, and Blick Bassy.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 12:29 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt3BYPw-3uk
1 hour performance of a special collaboration between Sunken Cages ( Ravish Momin), dragonchild ( Ethiopian sax & keyboard player DA Mekonnen) , Faraway Ghost ( Iranian Dc area percussionist Kamyar Arsani) & guest dancer Amirah Sackett , at the Kennedy Center
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:38 (one month ago) link
Ethiopian music band Qwanqwa, most of whose band members are based in Addis, were great tonight at little Makeba in Alexandria , Va just south of DC . Crowd was mostly dc area based Ethiopians . The singer of Qwanqwa can sing powerfully with melisma; as well as ululate and do that Ethiopian shoulder dance
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 April 2024 04:50 (one month ago) link
Oumou Sangare , Malian singing great, is doing some US gigs again, but it doesn’t look like she’ll be near me in the Washington DC area
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:34 (one month ago) link
https://occidentalbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/likambo-te
Jordan noted on the Rolling Jazz thread that the Chicago-based Occidental Brothers are back and have a new highlife album with drummer Mackaya Macraven. Circa 2009 I was a fan of their a bit gimmicky highlife cover of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 05:18 (one month ago) link
Reyna Tropical were highlighted by Rob on the Afro-Latino, Latin Pop etc thread, but the occasional use of soukous guitar & some other touches might intrigue folks on this thread too. I like the new album a lot
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:44 (one month ago) link
Saw on Facebook a great video clip of Malian singer Oumou Sangare guesting with Colombia band Rancho Aparte from Colombia at the Blue Moon Saloon in Louisiana as its festival time down there
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2024 13:38 (one month ago) link
Mokoomba from Zimbabwe got a US date in June in DC
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 5 May 2024 21:47 (four weeks ago) link
Apologies if there's a specific nyege nyege thread I can't find but loving thishttps://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/izigqinamba
― nxd, Thursday, 9 May 2024 09:13 (three weeks ago) link
Interesting contrasts there between the vocals and beats
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:34 (three weeks ago) link
Ghana special 2 arrived in the post today but it might wait bcz that can't stop with that new Mdou Moctar album
― woof, Friday, 10 May 2024 15:19 (three weeks ago) link
Ghana Special 2 sounds good so far to me (decided to check it out before the Mdou Moctar )
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2024 22:24 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah very much looking forward to getting that one, soundway comps never disappoint
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 10 May 2024 22:27 (three weeks ago) link
Meridian Brothers are more for the Latin thread, but they're hyping this new one for adding some Congolese soukous guitar
https://meridianbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/mi-latinoam-rica-sufre-2
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 May 2024 00:05 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIQPfT_MiXs
Ballaké Sissoko (kora) and Derek Gripper (guitar) are putting out another album. Gripper is on tour in US now (In DC Monday night the 13th ) . Mellow but good
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 May 2024 14:59 (three weeks ago) link
Absolutely loving Ghana Special 2, listened to it about 4 times straight through yesterday. I knew a few of these tunes beforehand but there is so much more great stuff on it. Kwasi Afari Minta - Barima Nsu is possibly my favourite new thing, but that MC Mambo song is super fun too. Top work Soundway!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 12 May 2024 22:27 (three weeks ago) link
It's definitely a good Ghana comp-
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:19 (two weeks ago) link
Sahel Sounds just announced a listening party for Africa Yontii by Tidiane Thiam:Africa Yontii Listening Party with Tidiane Thiam!The event is scheduled for:Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM EDT
More details via label bandcamp
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:52 (two weeks ago) link
I could have sworn we had a dedicated Mdou Moctar thread. Anyway, I was already a huge fan, but the new one absolutely rips. "Imouhar" is the one I keep coming back to most.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:08 (two weeks ago) link
X-post - that Tidiane Thiam album is mellow but beautiful guitar playing from Senegal
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 May 2024 18:24 (one week ago) link
https://wapo.st/3UQ292T
gift link should hopefully work- Washington Post article title--With Europe’s support, North African nations push migrants to the desert
A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts.
European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death.Spanish security forces in Mauritania photographed and reviewed lists of migrants before they were driven to Mali against their will and left to wander for days in an area where violent Islamist groups operate, according to testimony and documents.In Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, vehicles of the same make and model as those provided by European countries to local security forces rounded up Black migrants from streets or transported them from detention centers to remote regions, according to filmed footage, verified images, migrant testimony and interviews with officials.European officials held internal discussions on some of the abusive practices since at least 2019, and were flagged to allegations in reports by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Frontex, the E.U. border agency.
The E.U. provided more than 400 million euros to Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania between 2015 and 2021 under its largest migration fund, the E.U. Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, an initiative to foster local economic growth and stem migration.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:56 (one week ago) link
That's just some context for the music that I try not to overlook
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:12 (one week ago) link
guitar led band Etran de L'Air touring Europe in May and most of June, then touring North America in end of June and July
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:41 (five days ago) link
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2024/g:african-music/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 23:10 (five days ago) link
xp they were great when I saw them last year
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 03:35 (four days ago) link
Mdou Moctar were on Office Hours two weeks ago and they fucking ruled
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 03:37 (four days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeQKXQrWIo
Office Hours performance in California
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:07 (four days ago) link