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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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