Ace new album from Awesome Tapes From Africa. Bola's intense Frafra-language vocals, along with his shredding kologo—a two-stringed lute—boosted by bass-heavy, angular keyboard melodies and dance floor-ready drums.
"Pioneer Works Swing (Live)" brings into focus the kind of onstage group improvisation and deadly solo passages that reach for places Mergia and the band...
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...
South African mbaqanga and bubblegum instrumentals for the dancefloor! Awesome Tapes From Africa focus on the second album release by one of the key players...
Gives Soul Jazz Records' own Black Caribs of Belize a run for it's money.
Garifuna music contains Afro-Indian, Hispanic, and English Creole influences....
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
Light years ahead of it's time, 70's and 80's electronic soul from a talented underworld of producers.
Although American black artists such as Sly Stone,...