10 African Albums of the Year, 2011
If people still bought full albums, we would suggest them buying these 10 from 2011 for their friends. Like we will.
Music
The love for our mothers
The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.
R.I.P. Cesária Évora
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yffEiWHIoZI&w=600&h=349] This morning, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora passed away in Mandelo, São Vicente, the island
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
Ploughing through the blog’s archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for
Music Break. Ghostpoet
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Mike Skinner playing keys in this “improvised” video for Ghostpoet makes perfect sense. The online
Kenya Independence Day
Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A
Music Break. Iyadede
We like stylish Rwandese-Brooklyn singer Iyadede‘s take (in French) on the Theophilus London song “Flying Overseas.”
Music Break. Raashan Ahmad
This video for Raashan Ahmad left me wondering why I have never taken the train to
Music Break. Michael Kiwanuka
Brit-Ugandan singer Michael Kiwanuka (featured here before), who sounds like James Taylor, performs two of his
All of the party
A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.
Giving the Bizness
This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.
Massalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had
Tumi's Tête Savante
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on
'See me on television' (in Lesotho)
From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs’s ‘Hona Joale’, recorded in the city
Music Break. Kouyaté-Neerman
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Doctor Mac
This is number 4 in the music break series, Paris is a Continent.
Global Genre Accumulation
If there's an underground dance scene or marginalized community nearby, Diplo or some DJ like him has or probably will "discover," re-frame, and sell it to audiences in another part of the world.
Batsumi's cascade of sound
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From
Fathers, men and brothers
The third in my series of musical breaks from Paris, France, features L'Algerino, Nessbeal, Corneille and La Fouine.
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°2
An eclectic one. Ethiopian and Ivorian pop, Philly neo soul, Swedish and South African rap and