Let’s start our weekly round-ups of new music videos this year with some bangers. Representing Congo this week, rapper (and professional dancer) Dinozord: above. Next up, there’s new music and visuals from Art Melody (representing Burkina Faso):
Friday Bonus Music Break
May 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Your weekly #musicbreak roundup. Mokobe and Oumou Sangare pray for peace in Mali:
An American Singer in Mali
August 11, 2011 By 2 Comments
Collaborations between American and West African, specifically Malian, musicians are nothing new (see below). But, Adam Klein, a successful American folk musician from Georgia who has a long association with Mali (the locals call him by the name Lassine Kouyate) plans that and more: Klein is working on an album with Malian musicians that will […]
Faaji Agba
June 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
On Friday, July 22, Seun Kuti, play the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn. However, the real treat on that bill will be the warm-up act, Faaji Agba, a collective of octogenarian Nigerian musicians. The link is to a planned documentary film about the group (by Nigerian director Remi Vaughan Richards), some of whose music careers […]
Music for Africa
September 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
This 60 minute radio program on the music and ideas of Oumou Sangare–known as “The Songbird of Wasuru”–is one of the 25 excellent episodes (at last count) with an African theme in the online archive of the BBC 3 Radio program, “World Routes.” h/t Tom DeVriendt
