Intense solo instrumental music from Upper West, Ghana. Stark, virtuosic, the hypnotic, magical music of S.K. Kakraba is performed on the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators.
In the vibrant streets of Tembisa, South Africa, amidst the sprawling urbanity connecting Johannesburg and Pretoria, the story of Moskito began. Formed...
"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...
Awesome Tapes From Africa releases one of the best examples of 'amapiano' music from South Africa.The past five years have seen this rapidly expanding...
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...
This sought-after tape from 1994 by Ghanaian musician Ata Kak gets a reissue on Awesome Tapes From Africa! The seven tracks on Obaa Sima touch on rap,...
The acclaimed and highly sought-after LP by Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in 1977 and perhaps one of the...
Reissue of Noel McGhie?s only full length LP, released in France in 1975 at cult private label Disques Esperance! A true rare groove classic, a one of...