The politics of South African sound

From #Kwaito to #Amapiano, South African music is a bridge between past and present, where cultural memory, resistance, and reinvention collide on the dancefloor.

https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/the-politics-of-south-african-sound

This morning's #workout #music is from the late great Tony Allen doing a tribute to his hero. #drummer Art Blakey. This set really shows how #Afrobeat is a true integration of #jazz with #AfricanMusic - Allen, as always, is the distillation of #groove to its purest form

https://youtu.be/ohix7TnNoQI

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Sauti Za Busara 22nd Edition – 14th to 16th February 2025

Artist Line Up
https://youtu.be/nTLMDEnK8zw

More info: https://busaramusic.org/

President Thomas Sankara is surrounded by Miriam Makeba (South Africa), Tshala Muana (Congo), Nahawa Doumbia (Mali) and Nayanka Bell (Ivory Coast) during the concert of African female artists in 1986 in Burkina Faso. The concept was called the clash of the Stars.

Sankara was passionate about music and very committed to the cause of women.
He was assassinated in 1987.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara

Soba Blues – Fiman

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Trio Soba Blues (Soba means “the big house” in Dioula) is the meeting of Moussa Koïta, singer and guitar player from Burkina Faso, Emile Biayenda, drummer from Congo & French harmonica player Vincent Bucher. Their goal is to connect the sources of Blues, through Niger and Mississippi. […]

#AfricanArt #AfricanMusic #surrealism #oilpainting or #artprint
Painting of the Day. Sanza Player
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/sanza-player/
The sanza has traditionally accompanied African praise songs honoring ancestors and revered chiefs for centuries.
80 x 100 centimeters
31 x 39 inches
$1400 original / $175 art print / Free delivery anywhere
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Morning -in - Fela Kuti: Water no get enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBC5URoF0s

Water No Get Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviLDFqMznQ

FELA KUTI / Water No Get Enemy (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFWUD_2ThGU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

Namaste
#MorningPeaceIn #AfricanMusic #FelaKuti #AfroBeat

#AfricanArt #AfricanMusic #musician #acrylicpainting or #artprint
Painting of the Day. Kora Player
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/kora-player/
The kora is a traditional musical instrument in Central Africa, and it is often used to accompany storytelling. It is seldom seen (or heard) these days.
74 x 88 centimeters
29 x 35 inches
$1300 Original / Satisfaction guaranteed
$185 Giclée Art Print / Made in USA
Sales benefit only the artist in civil war #Cameroon

Important

You might have seen that I now boost #AfricanMusic posts instead of publishing them in my TL. Why?

Because on 01/15/2025, the #ActivityPub plugin on my #WordPress blog will be disabled and I created a brand new full account for the blog in the #Fediverse => @blogamf

This account will be the main (only?) source for all my posts relating to musics from #Africa. You should follow it if interested.

More info:
- https://indieweb.social/@blogamf/113704424573182350
- https://amf.didiermary.fr/important-message-amf/ (FR/EN)

#AfricanArt #AfricanMusic #drummer #drum #acrylicpainting or #artprint
Painting of the Day. The Drummer IV
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/the-drummer-4-african-street-musician/
Barefoot beggar with a tips jar singing &playing drum in a tropical African setting. It captures the energy of a street performance in Africa.
69 x 90 centimeters
27 x 35 inches
$1300 Original / $170 Giclée Art Print
Sales benefit only the artist in civil war #Cameroon
Buy art from artists.

Timasniwen Tikmawen

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Timasniwen Tikmawen is an album by the band “Dag Tenere” (“desert’s children”), in 2018, recorded, mixed and mastered at the Radio Fidélité Studio in Niamey, Niger.

Dag Tenere is a band of Tuareg artists from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, whose music, a worthy heir to the “assouf” or “desert blues” style, […]

Session pour Yehia le Marabout

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Session pour Yehia Le Marabout was recorded in ’94. It was an assignment done by Yehia, a famous marabout based in Gao who gave Super Onze (Super 11) several assignments. His last name we do not know alas and he died recently. The takes have no names. They are nothing but grand improvisations done for […]

Introduction to South African Guitar Styles

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“Introduction to South African Guitar Styles Vol. 1” is an exploration of the history of the guitar in Black South African popular music over five decades and the most important styles to have evolved around it: Maskanda, African Jazz, Kwela, Mbaqanga and XiTsonga.

The uniquely South African style of playing guitar is fast disappearing. […]

Ready for some Togolese HeavyMetal?

ARKA'N ASRAFOKOR - The Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-thqUcw444

From album "Dzikkuh" (July 19th, 2024)

More info: https://amf.didiermary.fr/arkan-asrafokor-walk-with-us/

#AfricanArt #AfricanMusic #painting #acrylicpainting #artprints or #originalartwork
Painting of the Day. Mvet Player II
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/mvet-player-2/
Dazzling painting of an African Mvet player. The Mvet is a stringed musical instrument of the Fang people of #Cameroon.
90 x 70 centimeters
35 x 28 inches
$1300 original / $170 art print / Mailed from USA in time for Christmas. #giftideas

#AfricanArt #AfricanMusic #painting #acrylicpainting
Painting of the Day. Opening the Festival V
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/opening-the-festival-5/
A barefoot music band performs at a music festival in Central Africa. At 5-feet width it captures the movement and rhythm of traditional African music.
150 x 100 centimeters
59 x 39 inches
$2900 original / Shipped free directly to you by @DHLAfrica
Satisfaction guaranteed

Les Amazones d’Afrique – Wa Jo

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“Wa Jo” is a bonus song to Les Amazones d’Afrique’s album “Musow Danse” released in February, about body positivity.

Frida Amani

Hailing from Arusha, #Tanzania, she's known for her unique blend of Afro-fusion, Hip-Hop and more traditional sounds.

Her 2021 release “Madam President,” advocating female empowerment and encouraging young women to aspire for leadership roles, such as the presidency, earned her an invitation to the Tanzanian State House, where she was recognized by the President of Tanzania as the “Madam President” of rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLubNM38UB4

Bandé-Gamboa – Dunia Bé Téné (Horizonte)

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Bandé-Gamboa is a project made up of two All-Star bands, created to reinterpret extremely rare or unreleased tracks from Guiné-Bissau and Cabo Verde, a project explicitly dedicated to the living memory of Amílcar Cabral, the intellectual force and strategist behind the independence of both countries, whose dream was to have them forever united. Founder of […]