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Showcasing styles of music from African countries colonized by Portugal, this compilation doesn't feature the most famed musicians of the representative nations, but it's a uniformly strong collection nonetheless. Cape Verde's morna and coladeira, Angola's semba and kizomba, Guinea's gumbé and Moza...

African Ambience: The Ultimate African Dance Party...

The introductory album to what is an ongoing series on the music of Ethiopia from the '60s and '70s features a variety of vocal and instrumental tracks from artists mostly unfamiliar to Western audiences. This brief period of liberated creativity before a military shutdown yielded an astonishing bur...

African Guitar Summit...

Benin, West Africa is the home to several Yoruba religious cults based on a pantheon of gods. Overlapping rhythms embedded with symbolic religious meanings are played by a variety of drum ensembles including cylindrical bata drums, hourglass-shaped dundun talking drums, and the tall gelede drums....

Wonders of the African World...

Rough Guide to Music of Cape Verde...

Nowadays it is almost universally accepted that the DNA of the blues can be traced back to Africa. Featuring significant collaborations which explore this link - including Corey Harris and Ali Farka Toure - alongside pivotal artists such as Afel Bocoum, Oumou Sangare and Boubacar Traore, The Rou...

Sacred Music of the Moroccan Jews...

The music of the Mbuti is primarily focused around vocal music and this recording beautifully captures the extraordinary variety and tonal quality of the solo and choral traditions. The songs are primarily about the Mbuti's nomadic life and the forest, from which their lives and those of the animal ...