African Guitar

VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res) Vinyl & HR

Posted by Rtax at May 15, 2025

VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-96kHz - 1.1 GB
1:03:55 | African, World, Blues, Folk | Label: Matsuli Music Limited

Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters But for this compilation of rescued songs masterfully restored from rare 78 rpm shellacs, few could imagine the diversely beautiful roots of Zulu Guitar Music emerging during the period 1950 – 1965. Story-tellers and master musicians appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”. Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.

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Awale Jant Band - Yewoulen (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 18, 2022

Awale Jant Band - Yewoulen (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 103 Mb | 00:44:50
World, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban Jazz | Label: ARC Music

A host of horns, trumpets, sax, electric guitar and traditional Senegalese drums all feature on Awale Jant Band’s new studio album – YEWOULEN –Senegalese soul recorded and mixed in the heart of south London’s Peckham Road Studios, SE15. Awale Jant Band have good reason to celebrate! The band’s last 2019 concert was an all-African celebration headed by "perhaps the greatest drummer ever" (Brian Eno), Nigerian percussion master Tony Allen and then straight into 2020, with YEWOULEN - their first signed album for international release on the ARC Music label.

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Hawk - African Day (1971) Music

Posted by L@ter at April 26, 2010

Relatively unaware from the rest of the planet, South Africa apparently had their own rock scene in which a few groups evolved in the scope of ProgArchives, the first being Freedom Children and here, Hawk. Indeed the apartheid was an important factor running the country and the generally well-respected boycott made that a few artistes left the country (ie: Manfred Mann), but others remained and fought the Apartheid in their own manner. Whether Hawk really did so is anyone's guess, but the strong black African music sprinkled all over their music does give a hint they did. Hawk was a group that was apparently managed from afar by Lonstain, but the problems were numerous between artistes and producers.

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Geof Bradfield - African Flowers (2010) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 2, 2019

Geof Bradfield - African Flowers (2010)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 354.89 Mb | 59:42 | Covers
Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, African | Label: Origin Records - 82572

Geof Bradfield received a grant from the Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Program to compose the music heard on African Flowers, his fourth CD as a leader. The money invested in the multi-reed player proved to be an excellent investment. Prior to writing the music, Bradfield traveled to Africa, and like many jazz musicians who have journeyed overseas to hear other forms of music, he absorbed what he heard and blended influences from them with his own original ideas.

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The Guitar of Joseph Spence eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ParRus at Sept. 30, 2018

Joseph Spence was a virtuoso guitarist and master arranger in a style that was uniquely personal and yet caught the imagination of musicians around the world. He has been compared to the great blues masters, the African acoustic pioneers, and Thelonious Monk, and inspired such varied disciples as Ry Cooder (who has recorded four of his arrangements), Taj Mahal, John Renbourn, and David Lindley.

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O Happy Day - African-American Spiritual, Traditional (Piano-Vocal-Guitar) Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at July 7, 2023

O Happy Day - African-American Spiritual, Traditional (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)
English | 2 pages | PDF | 1.7 MB

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John Henry - African-American Spiritual, Traditional (Piano-Vocal-Guitar) Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at July 7, 2023

John Henry - African-American Spiritual, Traditional (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)
English | 4 pages | PDF | 3.1 MB

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Give Me That Old Time Religion - African American Spiritual (Piano-Vocal-Guitar) Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at July 8, 2023

Give Me That Old Time Religion - African American Spiritual (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)
English | 2 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

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African Flower (Petite Fleur Africaine) - Duke Ellington, Norah Jones (Piano-Vocal-Guitar) Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at July 8, 2023

African Flower (Petite Fleur Africaine) - Duke Ellington, Norah Jones (Piano-Vocal-Guitar)
English | 8 pages | PDF | 5.6 MB

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Various Artists - Beginners Guide To African Blues (2011) [3CD BoxSet] {Nascente} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Oct. 2, 2011

Various Artists - Beginners Guide To African Blues (2011) [3CD BoxSet] {Nascente}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 0.99 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 407 Mb
Full Artwork @ 400 dpi (jpg) -> 157 Mb
© 2011 Nascente / Demon Music | NSBOX078
Blues / World Music / African

Following on from 2010’s best-selling Beginner’s Guide to African Funk comes the Beginner’s Guide to African Blues – an essential primer to the African Blues and Desert Blues scenes that have dominated world music in recent years. Featuring Afro-Blues legends such as Ali Farka Toure & Boubacar Traore, the new school of Afro-superstars such as Toumani Diabate & Rokia Traoré plus global-Afro-fusionists such as Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara & Dub Colossus, Beginner’s Guide to African Blues tells the story of African Blues in the 21st century.

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