Weekend Music Break

Here’s a resolution for the new year: to feature more Togolese pop. If you don’t know who the above Toofan duo is, google “Cool Catché”. Kuduro on the other hand we can never feature enough — this is a new video for MC Maskarado: About these ads

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Music Break / SMOD

SMOD (one of NPR’s “5 new African bands that ruled in 2010″) have written an ode to ‘the young girls of Mali’. Personally I think 2011 will be the year for them, touring heavily in Europe this summer.

Music Break

Last month, Mali’s trio SMOD (consisting of DJ Sam, Ousco and Donski) released a second single, Les Dirigeants Africains, taken from their new self-titled album. Sure, producer Manu Chao’s stamp is all over it, but SMOD’s lyrics and director Chris Macari* make up for that. And if you think DJ Sam looks a bit like […]

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