This week Radio Mukambo only serves afrobeat. Some sounds you’ll recognize as afrobeat, others may be what the future of afrobeat will sound like. Which is the case for Tony Allen‘s posthumous album “There Is No End”, more hiphop than afrobeat, except for the drumming, of course! The master drummer...
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Enjoy a brand-new lockdown session by London Afrobeat Collective! For their second “home” video, the 9-piece ensemble hosted 4 special guests…Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, Barcelona-based Josep Blanes at the trombone, Ben Plocki and his bass sax, and trumpet player Sam Warner. ‘Tokomona’ (in its studio version) is...
Twenty+ years after Fela Kuti‘s death, afrobeat seems to be more alive than ever! Over the past two decades, afrobeat bands have arisen in the four corners of the earth, some paying homage to Fela, other playing their own blend of afrobeat, mixing their roots with Fela Kuti and Tony...
Nightshop show May 2021 for Radio Campus Bxl & Rhythm Passport with 3 hours of new global sounds. Four songs of the day from Cape Verdian violins to a Sinti rom cello song, tamashek blues and electronic Latin-Arab bass. Our albums of the month first take us to Africa, with...
Check out the new collaborative single by the late afrobeat legend Tony Allen and London-based rapper Lava La Rue extracted from the Nigerian drummer’s posthumous album There Is No End out now on Blue Note Records: https://tonyallen.lnk.to/ThereIsNoEnd “I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends.” The wisdom of...
Nightshop show for April ’21 for Radio Campus Bxl & Rhythm Passport with 3 hours of new global sounds. 3 songs of the day; semba by Joãozinho Morgado (Turma da Bênção), Persian hip-hop jazz by Roforofo Jazz and Colombian tropical artists Abelardo Carbono & Meridian Brothers. Our albums of the...
Beninese singer/songwriter Angelique Kidjo has recently joined forces once again with Nigerian musician Yemi Alade to give life to a new single inspired by the #ENDSARS movement rallying across Nigeria: https://angeliquekidjo.lnk.to/Dignity The song is dedicated to the ones who lost their life in the demonstrations against police brutality in the...
New Bandcamp Friday and new shopping tips… As we often do on the first Friday of each month, when Bandcamp lifts its fees redistributing all sales profits to artists and their labels, also today we give you some suggestions on how to spend your money on music effectively supporting musicians....
‘Mamadou Kanda Keita’ is extracted of the “very special” collaborative album Korolen by Malian kora master Toumani Diabate and renowned London-based symphony orchestra LSO. “Commissioned as a special project by the Barbican Centre in London and produced by World Circuit, these recordings feature Diabaté and his group of eminent Malian...