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Baaba Maal - Television -

This album aims to nudge one of Africa's biggest stars into the North American consciousness. Maal mixes electronic elements with the welcome addition of Sabina Sciubba (vocals) and Didi Gutman (keyboards) of Brazilian Girls. Television explores concepts of mass communication and unity in Africa and worldwide, voicing support for African...

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Songs from a Zulu Farm -

South Africa’s best known iscathamiya (Zulu a cappella) group have worked hard over nearly five decades to keep an ostensibly rather narrow musical palette fresh and appealing, with mixed results. While their contribution to Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland was a commercial and artistic triumph, subsequent pop collaborations at...

Tinariwen - Tissali -

It’s been a good year for African desert rock. In April, young Tuareg bruisers Tamikrest released their second (and best) album, Toumastin, and now the heavyweight champs Tinariwen are back to deliver a TKO in the form of Tissali, their fifth long-player. The band formed from members...

Fela Kuti: The Best of The Black President -

If there was ever a musician who lived and died for his art, it was Nigeria’s notorious Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Uncompromising, relentless, boisterous, angry, outrageousâ€"those qualities define both his music, Afrobeat, and his controversial, tortured life (among other indignities, he was arrested some 200 times for his political convictions and...

Femi Kuti: Africa for Africa -

The Marley sons know a thing or two about stepping out of the shadow of a famous fatherâ€"so does Femi Kuti. Sometimes it starts with putting together your own band (in this case, The Positive Force), but it’s all rendered pointless if you don’t have a clear vision about where...

Tony Allen, Secret Agent -

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