#fullalbum — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fullalbum, aggregated by home.social.
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Kokoroko – Could We Be More
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kokoroko-could-we-be-more/
“Could We Be More” is an expansive and ambitious album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.
Each song possesses the energy which so naturally underpins the heartbeat of Kokoroko’s identity – deftly moving through afrobeat, highlife, soul, and funk across the album’s 15 tracks and taking inspiration from a plethora of other influences from within […] -
Les Tambours de Brazza
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tambours-brazza-congo-drums-1996/
Le magnifique son des Tambours de Brazza sur l’album “Congo Drums” en 1996.
Quatorze percussionnistes congolais créent un fabuleux voyage à travers les rites les plus profonds de l’Afrique centrale. Un enregistrement remarquable ! Créé en 1991 sous la direction artistique d’Émile Biayenda, le groupe allie tradition et modernité, offrant des rythmes de toute […]
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Gasper Lawal – Ajomasé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gasper-lawal-ajomase/
“Ajomasé,” originally released in 1980 on his own label CAP, is the groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal.
Mixing traditional Nigerian percussions, Rock & Jazz, he starts working on his own compositions in 1976, in his spare time or when he can access a studio, with the best musicians available [...]#70smusic #80smusic #FullAlbum #Jazz #Nigeria #Psychedelic #Rock #AfroJazz
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Africa Funk – The Original Sound of 70’s
https://amf.didiermary.fr/africafunk-original-sound-70s/
Both these Africa Funk compilations collect African music from many artists’ standout tracks to make you dance till the end of night… No contest, some are clear dance floor fillers if your audience is ready…
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #FullAlbum #OldAfricanMusic
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Soundtrack Tipp 🎹
Coyote vs. Acme Soundtrack | #FullAlbum -
#soundtrack #CoyotevsAcme #StevenPrice
#Music
https://youtu.be/L5aORV29-h4?is=tOHl-No5tt3Ij5zM -
Dr Victor Olaiya & his All-Stars
https://amf.didiermary.fr/victor-olaiya-all-stars/
Dr Victor Olaiya is considered the bridge between Ghanaian Highlife and what would become Afrobeat.
His musical style was influenced by James Brown, with horn parts harmonized in Brown’s style, as opposed to the mostly unison lines of Afrobeat. The music includes the swinging percussion of Tony Allen, but not the syncopated style that [...]
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Mulatu Astatke – Sketches of Ethiopia
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-sketches-ethiopia/
Sketches of Ethiopia is the first internationally distributed studio album by Ethiopian musician, composer, and arranger Mulatu Astatke, released in 2013.
The album’s closing track is “Surma”, a collaboration with the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, who co-wrote the song with Astatke.
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Dur-Dur Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dur-dur-band/
The first studio album of its kind since the golden days of Mogadishu came to a halt three decades ago. Glamorous discos and beachfront stages disappeared as the city was bombed to the ground. Like a sleeping giant patiently awaiting its revival, we can finally hear a new recording by the living representatives of that […]
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Newen Afrobeat, Chilean collective
https://amf.didiermary.fr/chilean-collective-newen-afrobeat-curiche/
The Chilean collective Newen Afrobeat gets inspiration from Fela’s music and activism.
In Chile, or rather, in all of South America, there’s no real information about Africa. There is a lot of ignorance about that big continent that has a lot of different cultures, but we just think of it as “Africa.” Like it’s just […]
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Soundtrack Tipp 🎧
House of the Dragon: Season 3 #Soundtrack
#FullAlbum #RaminDjawadi #HouseoftheDragon
#season3 #hotd #got #GameofThrones #hbomax
https://youtu.be/7Czj3h7uWwI?is=jVsx3NAULxVmwIFX -
Youssou et Super Etoile de Dakar – Show !!!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/youssou-super-etoile-dakar-show/
A live show recorded in Abidjan, from a vinyl self released in 1983, with Youssou N’Dour et Le Super Etoile de Dakar.
See also: 2 compilations released in 2010 – Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N’Dour – Once Upon A Time In Senegal – The Birth Of Mbalax 1979-1981
#80smusic #FullAlbum #LiveMusic #Mbalax #Sénégal #Vinyl #YoussouNDour #OldAfricanMusic
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Manu Dibango (1971)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manu-dibango-1971/
The second album by Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango on the Fiesta label, with strong Latin influences and Jo Tongo on guitars.
This album contains a cover of Bebey’s Idiba and the first version of Senga, later revisited in the US album “Makossa Man.”
#70smusic #Cameroon #FullAlbum #ManuDibango #OldAfricanMusic
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Djeli Moussa Diawara – Yékéké (Paris 2010)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-yekeke-paris-2010/
Following the remastered version of “Yasimika (Abidjan 1982)”, “Yékéké (Paris 2010)” contains 9 tracks, recorded a few years before the release of this album, but never officially published.
It also contains new recordings of his 4 original songs from 1982, reworked in a studio in Paris with Guinean musicians. […]
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Débruit & Alsarah – Aljawal (الجوال)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/debruit-aljawal-traveller/
Aljawal (The Traveller) is a modern, haunting take on Sudanese music heard through the sonic lens of French artist & producer, Débruit and the poetic, ethereal lyrics and melodies of Sudanese-born singer Alsarah.
Débruit is a musical explorer who imagines alternate worlds and the way they’d sound. He plays with time and disparate sounds [...]
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Sisonke Xonti – uGaba the Migration
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sisonke-xonti-ugaba-migration/
Saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa’s 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz, released “uGaba the Migration” in 2020, that includes a four-part “Migration Suite”, exploring rural and urban identity and the perilous spiritual journey from homeland to the global village.
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Super Negro Bantous
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-bantous/
Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.
The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]
#70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic
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K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cubanos-fiesta/
Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.
K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]
#80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
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Seun Kuti and Black Thought remix
https://amf.didiermary.fr/african-dreams-remix-seun-kuti-and-black-thought/
Nigerian musician Seun Kuti and HipHop veteran Black Thought (head of legendary band The Roots) teamed again for a new remix EP African Dreams, that includes 3 tracks, after the release of “Kuku Kee Me (Remix).”
“This EP is something new. I don’t think that something like this has been done before,” the son […]
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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-to-know-without-knowing/
The legendary Mulatu Astatke blends his Ethio-jazz with the Melbourne-based group Black Jesus Experience‘s grooves on the 9-track album “To Know Without Knowing” in 2020.
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Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience – Cradle Of Humanity
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mulatu-astatke-black-jesus-experience-cradle-humanity/
Cradle Of Humanity features Mulatu Astatke, the Father Of Ethiojazz, in collaboration with Australian musical collective Black Jesus Experience.
Cradle Of Humanity is the funkified product of seven years of performances together around the world, brought to fruition in studios in [...]
#Ethiojazz #Ethiopia #FullAlbum #Jazz #MulatuAstatké #AfroJazz
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Sunny Ade & his African Beats – Syncro System Movement
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sunny-ade-african-beats-syncro-system-movement/
The original “Vol.12 – Syncro System Movement” is a vinyl LP from 1974, reissued in 1983. Not to be confused with “Synchro System” (see below), the 5th track on the eponym album, released in 1983. […]
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Francis Bebey – Psychedelic Sanza
https://amf.didiermary.fr/francis-bebey-psychedelic-sanza/
The incredible “Psychedelic Sanza (1982-1984)” album is a beautifully dreamy celebration of the uniquely affective timbre of the sanza, or African thumb piano, by Francis Bebey.
[…] I did not participate in the production of the various records that my father devoted to the sansa. He did it himself, you might say, in his “laboratory.” […]
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Gilles Gnonnas – La musica en vérité (2013)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gilles-gnonnas-musica-verite/
Gilles Gnonnas singing “La musica en vérité”, a song by his father Gnonnas Pedro, in Cotonou in 2013 (@ CCF).
An awesome Afro Latin track with deep lyrics from the Beninese King of African Salsa, Gnonnan Sossou Pierre Kouassivi, better known as Gnonnas Pedro. […]
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Mbongwana Star – From Kinshasa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mbongwana-star-kinshasa/
Following the split of Staff Benda Bilili in December 2012, the core of the group created “Staff Mbongwana International,” later renamed “Mbongwana Star.”
If you remember the news last year, the original band split, after some “problems” between their new “management” and the booking agency that took care of their tours since the [...]
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Dr Footswitch
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-footswitch/
Teddy Khuluzwa, better known as Dr Footswitch, was one of the icons of rock in both Zimbabwe and Zambia through the 1970s.
After a carreer in Zimbabwe, known as Southern Rhodesia at the time, Teddy Khuluzwa moved to Zambia.In the ’60s and early ’70s, Khuluzwa played guitar alongside future Zamrock stars such as Rikki Ililonga, […]
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Ricky Banda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ricky-banda/
The largely unknown figure of Ricky Banda was an influential mover in the Zamrock genre that processed the heavy rock influences of Western acts and mixed them up with local musical traditions. “Niwanji Walwa Amwishyo” will be a treat for fans of artists like Witch, Paul Ngozi, etc
The Zamrock era in Zambia revealed a […]
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Sunny Ade & His African Beats (1973)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/king-sunny-ade-african-beats-1973/
Un album du Nigérian King Sunny Ade & his African Beats des années 70, entre Highlife et Juju Music à écouter sans modération…