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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 ...

The Rough Guide To The Music Of Sudan is bursting with the diverse and rich music that has emerged from Africa’s largest country, from desert rhythms echoing a camel’s stride to savannah woodland harmonies. This album offers you an overview of a flourishing musical culture – including trance d...

Churchical Chants of the Nyabingi...

Djembe: African Percussions...

Golden Afrique, Vol. 1...

African Odyssey...

Tanzania is the new music capital of East Africa and from the spice islands of Zanzibar to the shores of the great lakes, The Rough Guide To The Music Of Tanzania explores the diversity of the country’s culture as expressed in its popular music. This album features hip-hop with a Maasai tinge, Hay...

This second of the Tinder label's Cape Verde collections starts out predictably with a morna by the inimitable Cesaria Evora. Familiar names abound, like Tito Paris, Maria Alice, and the island's latest pop diva Fantcha, as well as local superstars Simentera (whose single track here shows how much t...

African Salsa: Senegalese Salsa Fireworks...

African Drums & Afro-Caribbean Grooves...