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.
2010 three CD set. From the dusty plains of Mali to the Tanzanian Serengeti, the African voice can be heard loud and proud throughout this vast and vibrant continent. Featured are African superstars Salif Keita, Orchestra Baobab, Rokia Traor‚, and Youssou N'Dour as well as less well-known names who will equally delight and excite such as Malian bluesman Boubacar Traor‚ and Zanzibar Taarab singer and WOMEX Award winner Bi Kidude.
A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear, gut-busting yelps, lethally welldrilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into its own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.
2010 three CD set. From the dusty plains of Mali to the Tanzanian Serengeti, the African voice can be heard loud and proud throughout this vast and vibrant continent. Featured are African superstars Salif Keita, Orchestra Baobab, Rokia Traor‚, and Youssou N'Dour as well as less well-known names who will equally delight and excite such as Malian bluesman Boubacar Traor‚ and Zanzibar Taarab singer and WOMEX Award winner Bi Kidude.
Dan Treanor and African Wind laying down some award winning Afrosippi Blues. This CD was nominated for Blues CD of the Year by the Independent Music Awards!
It's what he calls Afrosippi Blues. Veteran Colorado bluesman Dan Treanor is at it again. Following the success of the critically acclaimed Northern Blues release - African Wind - that featured the classic vocals of Frankie Lee, Mercy continues down that eclectic path he calls Afrosippi Blues. Joined this time by his outstanding band, African Wind, and show casing the soulful voice of long time blues singer Rex Peoples, Mercy twists and turns through a musical land scape of African grooves, Delta Soul, hill country raunch, and Rhythm & Blues class. Mercy is totally unapologetic when it comes to exploring the deep connection between West African griot music and American Blues…
British-African dance company. It was founded in 1984 by George Dzikunu and Emmanuel Tagoe with the purpose of training students in African dance and drumming. It has since expanded into Europe's largest African dance company. Dzikunu researches a range of traditional African dance and music and although the company gives authentic versions of the material they are performed in the context of theatrical narrative, such as In the Village of Africa (1985), Under African Skies (1990), and Siye Goli (1991). The small-scale Adzido 12 performs largely community- and education-based work.