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Ho Ho. The flu is sucking the life out of me and so.
Luckily, there’s an easy remedy for life-suckage — you put the song in the coconut and mix it all together say DOCK-TAHHH
Esau Mwamwaya (a young Malawian singer now living in London) and Radioclit (a two-man European DJ/production/bootybouncer team) not only put together one [...]

Welcome To Mali has gotten a fair amount of attention due to the fact that it was co-produced by Damon Albarn. Maybe Amadou & Mariam needed a PR boost?
They sold more than half a million copies of their previous album, recorded the official theme to the 2006 World Cup, and will be playing Obama’s inauguration, [...]

Soooo hey yeah three years ago this guy Joe Tangari (whom you LOVE) wrote a piece for Pitchfork about Afrobeat that mentioned 100 songs. Then (and this is why you LOVE) he slapped together a torrent of 99 of the songs, plus liner notes (the text of his article). It’s called Africa 100, and if [...]

So Orchestra Baobab just came through town, and I read a review that was so over the moon about the show that I had to investigate. And hey guess what! Great band!
As you know, my chi is weak when it comes to non-Western music, but I’m starting to climb the ladder. The bottom rung [...]

This is a picture of the lady that taught me that a country called Cape Verde exists. It’s a group of islands off the western coast of Africa, first inhabited by those sailin’ Portuguese. Cape Verde is known primarily for its music, from traditional morna ballads to more upbeat sounds. I’m a babe [...]

This is my last full Vegetable day before turning tail and heading home, so please to be enjoying this last Hawaiian post (for a while). There’s some very interesting information on “Hawaiian War Chant” on Wikipedia. This version is from Haleoke, who performed with Arthur Godfrey. She put out one solo [...]