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Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids: We Be All Africans review – Afro-jazz-fusion veterans keep fire burning

3097 days ago

Guardian Music — (Strut)It starts with a rumble of percussion and kalimba thumb piano, which leads into a chanted chorus â€“ â€œWe be all Africans nowâ€ â€“ before Idris Ackamoor moves in with a cool, driving alto saxophone solo. The new studio alb... more info

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Fela Kuti – 10 of the best

3125 days ago

Guardian Music — A look back over a seminal career that encompassed political dissidence, UFO contact, chicken sacrifice â€“ and some of the greatest dance music ever recordedOlufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was born on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Nigeria... more info

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George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Fred Schneider, Living Color, Meryl Streep and more playing Bernie Worrell tribute in NYC

3194 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Funkadelic at the Paramount in 2015 (more by Greg Cristman) There's an all-star fundraiser on the way for legendary keyboardist Bernie Worrell, who is a founding member of Funkadelic and has worked with the Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Mos... more info

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Sinkane – “Young Trouble” Video

3518 days ago

Stereogum — Chris once wrote that Sinkane is a conglomerate of everything from “Sade to Radiohead to Alvino Rey to Fela Kuti” and I think that about sums up Ahmed Gallab’s willful eclecticism. “Young Trouble” is an island jam drenched in retro pop ennu... more info

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Beyoncé Has 100 Unreleased Songs?! Will You Ever Get To Hear Them??

3531 days ago

Perez Hilton — Beyoncé has a secret… Well, she has about 100 secrets actually… Queen Bey's collaborator/producer The-Dream dropped a bit of a bombshell: Beyoncé has "a hundred" unreleased songs! The-Dream was musing about Bey's fourth studio album, titled 4, ... more info

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Q&A: Sinkane On His New Mean Love And Working With Everyone From Usher To David Byrne

3744 days ago

Stereogum — Every Sinkane album is a world unto itself. Mean Love is no different in that it is very different. A conglomeration of everything from Sade to Radiohead to Alvino Rey to Fela Kuti, it marks the latest evolution by one of music’s most fascinating f... more info

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This Week's Interesting Music Releases - August 19, 2014

3750 days ago

LargeHeartedBoy — Orenda Fink's Blue Dream is by far my favorite new release this week. Imogen Heap's Sparks and Literature's Chorus are new albums I can also recommend. Three Fela Kuti albums have been reissued on vinyl, Confusion, Sorrow, Tears and... more info

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Alex Gibney's 'Finding Fela!' finds facts but not feelings

3755 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — An audacious performer and iconoclast, the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti proves a challenging subject for a conventional documentary. That's a theme of sorts in Alex Gibney's "Finding Fela!," a film that's admirably comprehensive but disappointingly sh... more info

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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 15) – Podcast/Mixtape

3755 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — Ghana / Nigeria / Jamaica / Senegal & beyond. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission fifteen. Direct download, below. The first fourteen transmissions can be found and downl... more info

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