African brehs, show me some of your countries best music and acts

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

I love this song and the album is Great! Fela dn Africa 70!

 

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subs, I love African music.

This sounds a lil like samba music

 

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Its kinda weird that the saxophone got introduced during colonialism but they were never,yknow, colonized themselves. I've never heard of the Masenqo, I'ma read up on that. but interesting hypothesis on the synths.

That has to do with the fact that Ethiopia went through a huge Blues and soul phase in the 60s. Artists such as Mahmoud Ahmed and Bizunesh Bekele pioneered a genre called Tizita which was a fusion of American blues/jazz/soul and traditional Ethiopian scalars. It was very popular until the communist derge banned some genres of music in the seventies. Tizita was seen as music for the bourgeois class so it was banned


Its recently going through a revival as the Ethiopian middleclass grows. There was a bbc report on it.

 

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[Lil' Kartwheel]

Good topic but no African music thread is complete without juju, afrobeat, Igbo & Ghana highlife, palm wine and modern music from Nigeria. Used to hear some of these artists all the time whenever I was kicking it with my Nigerian friends on Bissonet.

Juju (Ebenezer Obey and KSA are the best to ever do it, IMO):



Afrobeat/Modern:



Highlife:



I'm probably missing a lot of great artists from Southeast and Southwest Nigeria but those are a few I can recall from the top of my head.

 

[Fox]

Africa needs more of this





Get back to the basics

 

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Good topic but no African music thread is complete without juju, afrobeat, Igbo & Ghana highlife, palm wine and modern music from Nigeria. Used to hear some of these artists all the time whenever I was kicking it with my Nigerian friends on Bissonet.

Juju (Ebenezer Obey and KSA are the best to ever do it, IMO):



Afrobeat/Modern:



Highlife:



I'm probably missing a lot of great artists from Southeast and Southwest Nigeria but those are a few I can recall from the top of my head.

Everytime i listen to west african music, i can here alot of Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms. West African music must have influenced alot of

 

[How Sway?]

i wish there were more examples of Ewe Drumming on youtube .

A bit of history

Despite the first impression, the background of this dance isn't all that fun. Before the Ewe people were able to settle in the beautiful Volta Region of Ghana and in Southern Togo, they went through tough times of war and oppression: They had to fight their way to freedom.

To train and encourage their warriors, the Ewe played various war dances, one of them called Atrikpui. In the 1920s, after the Ewe had enjoyed a period of peace, this serious dance turned into the fun and entertaining Agbadza that we know today.


How they keep an old thing fun

When the Ewe play a traditional piece, they like to go on for hours! But don't think that's boring or monotonous. When Africans play drum, more is going on than we think:

To keep the excitement up, a skillful Master Drummer will introduce a new beat and song at just the right moment. He can even blend in other Ewe rhythms (like Agbekoror Ageshe) that sound very similar.

Also, as many other African tribes, the Ewe are able to "talk" through their drums. For instance, the Master Drummer may drum the name of another musician or a dancer to challenge him or her. That person will step up and respond with a nice move. This way, the people present can playfully interact with each other.

I start to feel that our party music is monotonous compared to this!

 

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Angolan

 

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senegal

 

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