Walid Rouissi – Yammi El Ayoun Essoud
(1988, Tunisia)
Walid Rouissi – Yammi El Ayoun Essoud
Tag: africa
Galia Club Mascara
Fene Ouel Amal & Galia Club Mascara – Fight Song
Music and lyrics by Meghdir ben Ali.
Compaore Issouf
Compaoré Issouf – Ouedraogo
A joyful ditty from the Burkinabe carpenter-turned-musician who grew up listening to his mother hum the traditional songs of Burkina Faso.
Menelik Wossenatchew – Belew Bedubaye
Menelik Wossenatchew – Belew Bedubaye (1971)
Deep within the ruined palaces of Addis Ababa, devotional bats chant in an intoxicating symphony of piano, horns and handclaps. Scientists snort eucalyptus and feed capsules of ancient sound to caged hyenas.
Fotso Haïata – French Girl
Fotso Haïata – French Girl (1978)
Mohamed Mazouni – Ecoute-Moi Camarade
Mohamed Mazouni – Ecoute-Moi Camarade (1974)
Peter King
Peter King – Mr. and Mrs. Untrue (A Soulfull Peter King, 1977)
We conclude our annual We Three Kings series with this soothing, soulful ballad from Peter King, a multi-instrumentalist from Nigeria’s Western State. In closing, there is general agreement among modern scholars that if Peter, Rosa, and Ben E. King had been alive during Jesus’ time, they would have kicked some serious biblical butt.
Houn Pierre & L’Orchestre Belier Andralex
Houn Pierre & L’Orchestre Belier Andralex – Mansou Djouwi
(Ote Yale, 1979)
Cora Funk – Sabuma (1978)
Cora Funk – Sabuma (1978)
Featuring Fode Drame and Lamine Konte. The latter transformed the playing of the 21-string kora thanks to his ceaseless experimentation on the complex instrument. He also contributed to film scores including a collaboration with Stevie Wonder on The Secret Life of Plants soundtrack.
Pat Thomas – Yesu San Bra (1980)
Pat Thomas – Yesu San Bra (1980)
A track reminiscent of of K. Frimpong’s “Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu”, the greatest Ghanian song EVER. Pat was a native of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He learned the guitar and drums from his uncle Onyina who had played with Nat King Cole, Miriam Makeba, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. In the early 70s he was a member of The Blue Monks, the resident band of Accra’s Tip Toe Nite Club (which still exists). He later formed the Sweat Beans Band, an extremely popular group during the Kutu Acheampong Era of government (1972-78). Pat was crowned Mr. Golden Voice of Africa in 1978.