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038 Palms of Fire Live on WUOG 12-9-10

Posted by: afrika
Dec 09 2010 7:11 pm

The Palms of Fire drum circle of the Unitarian Universalist church here in Athens drum for us as well as share knowledge about the West African songs they play!

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035 Kwaito Music 11-4-10

Posted by: afrika
Nov 14 2010 7:29 pm

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Kwaito music is the sounds of change and progress in South Africa. It is an electronic music genre that came about in the 1990s, originating in Johannesburg, in the  black township Soweto. It has become immensely popular in South Africa and is still very popular. It came about the same time that Nelson Mandela came to the presidency in South Africa, and coincides with the end of Apartheid. These musicians now had a newfound freedom to express themselves and the result was kwaito. One of the first Kwaito singles, and the first track of the show this evening is “Kaffir” by Arthur Mafokate illustrated the freedom of expression resulting from political liberation in South Africa. Listen and enjoy Miliki Soundsystem on WUOG, 90.5 fm Athens, GA.

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035 All Vinyl Set 10-28-10

Posted by: afrika
Nov 12 2010 7:05 pm

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ALL Vinyl set on Miliki Soundsystem. Pop music from all over Africa. Included in the playlist are countries and years the record came out! WOW!

Artist -   SongAlbum -   Record label -  country (year)

African Connection  -   Tiembelema (Long Version)   -  Tiembelema 12      -   Celluloid Records – (1984)

Konono No 1    – Masikulu    – Congotronics  -   Crammed Discs   -  DRC (2005)

Dissidenten  -   El Mounadi = The Desert Life –    Sahara Elektrik   -  Shanachie   -  Germany/Egypt (1985)

Ray Lema   -  Pongi   -  Nangadeef   -  Mango   -  DRC (1989)
Nyboma  -   Kabanga  -   Double Double  -   Rounder   -  DRC (1990)
Fela Kuti  -   Confusion  -   Confusion    –     Nigeria (1975)
Oben Ngonbeni & the Kurhula Sisters  -   Ulotilavela Mitwa (You Asked for Trouble)  -   My Wife Bought A Taxi   -  Shanachie   -  South Africa (1987)
Kalambya Sisters  -   Mbie Nuke  -   Katelina 12″ single  -   Zensor   -  Kenya (1983)
The Bhundu Boys  -   Bye Bye Stembi  -   Pamberi!  -   Mango   -  Zimbabwe (1989)
Missa Luba  -   Namuvera Jesu  -   10 Kenyan Folk Melodies  -   Philips   -  Kenya (1990)

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034 Afro-Disco 10-14-10

Posted by: afrika
Nov 11 2010 3:18 am

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African Disco explosion dance party!

the timeless sounds of disco, but in Africa!

Artist – Song – Album – (label) -(year/ location of band)
Letta Mbulu     Kilimanjaro     Kilimanjaro 7″     Munjale     1981 South African
Sonny Okosuns     No More Wars     The Gospel Of Ozziddi     EMI (Nigeria)     1981 Nigeria
Okyerema Asante     Sabi     Drum Message         1993 Ghana
Geraldo Pino     African Hustle     Lagos Disco Inferno     Academy LPs     Sierra Leone
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Let Me Love You     Bunny Mack     Let Me Love You     Rokel Records     1981 Sierra Leone
Guynamukat     Looking After Number 1 (The Revenge of Mark Eyo Re-edit)     AFRO DISCO BOOGIE EDITS – VOLUME ONE     Guynamukat
Esbee Family     Gin and Lime     Peace Of Mind     Taretone     1982 Nigeria
Yo YO Dance     Kabbala
Ipa Boogie     get the music now     West African Disco Funk
Bunny Mack     Law Keeper     s/t

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033 Afrofunk 10-7-10

Posted by: afrika
Oct 11 2010 5:47 pm

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This weeks show focuses on Funk styles from Africa. Most of the stuff comes from the 70s via a few amazing African compilations,  but there are a couple current acts like South African BLK JKS and London based Yaaba Funk.

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Playlist

artist – song – album – label

Dick Khoza       African Jive (Moto)    Chapita        Matsuli
The Mahotella Queens     Wozani Mahipi     Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2     Strut
The Sookie All Stars     Rhythm on Rhythm     Club Africa Vol. 1     Strut
Mobassa     Kenia     Club Africa Vol. 1     Strut
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BLK JKS     Zol!     Zol!     Secretly Canadian
Yaaba Funk     Gye me na mendwan
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J. K. Mayengani and the Shingwedzi Sisters     khubani     Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2     Strut
Down Tones     Back Home Soul     Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2     Strut
Electric 6     Can You Feel It     Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2     Strut
The Heroes     Funky Message     Next Stop Soweto Vol. 2     Strut

032 Nigerian Independence Day – 50 years old! 9-30-10

Posted by: afrika
Oct 04 2010 11:56 am

Nigerian Independence Day from British rule is on October 1st! Nigerian will be 50 years old!

This weeks special featured Nigerian Dr. Akinloye Ojo , professor of African Studies here at UGA.

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Dr. Ojo speaks about past independence days, Nigerian unity, and what the future holds for Nigeria. He also spins some of his favorite Nigerian tunes.

Dr. Ojo is a master storyteller, so make sure you listen to his story about the Pig and the Tortoise near the end of the show!

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Playlist

King Sunny Ade      Happy Birthday (Nigerian)      Africa
Fela Kuti     Viva Nigeria     The ‘69 Los Angeles Sessions
I.K. Dairo     I Remember My Darling     I Remember My Darling
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Tope Alabi     Baba Iwo Lakepe     Mori Iyanu
Tope Alabi     Mimo l’Oluwa     Angeli Mi
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Asa     Eye Adaba     s/t
Fela Kuti     Chop n Quench     Nigeria 70


031 Marrabenta 9-23-10

Posted by: afrika
Sep 27 2010 2:10 pm

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Musically speaking, Mozambique is probably best known internationally for the unique timbila xylophone music of the Chopi people. But ask residents of Maptuo or Pemba or any of the nation’s other big towns what kind of music they prefer to dance to, and the answer will often be marrabenta.

Marrabenta is the rough and tumble urban dance sound that originated in the country’s capitol, Maputo (then called Lourenço Marques) in the 1950s. It was a fast-paced, guitar-driven sound – often played on homemade guitars that were played so hard that the fishing-line strings snapped (”arrabentar” is Portuguese for “to break,” and this is where the music got its name). Marrabenta incorporated a local folk rhythm called the “Majika” into its mix, as well as sea-born foreign sounds like calypso and Angolan pop that were often heard in the port of Maputo.

Like Angolan pop music, marrabenta also played a role in the struggle for independence from Portuguese rule, as well as the ensuing civil war afterwards. Early on, marrabenta groups drew the ire of the colonial authorities simply by singing in African languages, instead of the state-approved tongue of Portuguese. Though the civil war that began in 1975 lasted almost three decades, and eventually wiped out the local music industry, its early years also coincided with some of the finest marrabenta yet recorded. Mozambique’s most popular band, Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique, continued to record and broadcast from the state-controlled radio station in Maputo, even as South-African sponsored RENAMO fighters terrorized huge swaths of the country.

With the end of the civil war in 1994, Mozambique slowly began to rebuild its civil infrastructure, and by the end of that decade, the irrepressible sound of marrabenta had returned. First came the Mabulu project, which paired young singers and rappers with veteran artists such as singer Lisboa Matavel, which was soon followed by a re-emergence of former stars, including Mingas and Wazimbo, both former singers with Orchestra Marrabenta Star. More recently, veteran band Ghorwane – whose founder was murdered during the civil war – also re-emerged on the national stage. While Orchestra Marrabenta Star has also reformed and is performing under a new name, ensuring that the durable marrabenta sound – once the music of struggle and civil war – will become the soundtrack to Mozambique’s quiet reconstruction.

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Playlist

artist – song – albumyear
Alberto Mwamosi & Gabriel Maopana Bila  -   Watasala Warila Nanzifile (You Will Be Left Crying When I Die)   -  Forgotten Guitars from Mozambique 1955 ‘56 ‘57
Americo Kossa & Aurelio Jefe   -  Hakunene (Truly)   -  Forgotten Guitars from Mozambique 1955 ‘56 ‘57
Feliciano “Pachu” Gomes  -   Wukati Lakukawa Hinenge (You Have Kicked the Family With Your Foot)  -   Forgotten Guitars from Mozambique 1955 ‘56 ‘57
Wazimbo –    Sobremesa  -   Wazimbo   -   2001
Ghorwane  -   U Yo Mussiya Kwini (Pedro Langa)  -   Kudumba  -   1997
Sam Mangwana   -  Vamos Para O Campo  -   Canta Mocambique   -  1983
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Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Mocambique  -   Matilde  -   Rough Guide to Marrabenta Mozambique
Fanny Pfumo Trio  -   Nwana  -   Marrabenta  Classicos A Moda da Casa
Hossi Baza  -   Uta Sala Na Mamani  -   Marrabenta Classicos A Moda da Casa
Gabriel Chauke  -   Wene Wanga  -   Marrabenta  Classicos A Moda da Casa
Dilon Djindji  -  Maria Teresa  -   Dilon   -  2002
Mabulu  -   Mahanhela  -   Karimbo  -   2005


030 Jive 9-16-10

Posted by: afrika
Sep 17 2010 11:11 am
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Jive music is popular music from South Africa originating in the 1950s. Jive is/was an immensely popular dance music, closely related to mbaqanga, with an insistent pulse and regular embellishments on guitar and bass. Within South Africa, the music carries mixed meanings. Under Apartheid, the Government worked to segregate blacks into tribal groups, as if decades of urbanization and shared culture had not occurred; separate, state-controlled radio stations, for instance, broadcast in Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho. Explicitly and implicitly, performers are steered away from political songs. It’s citified rural music. Call-and-response vocals mix traditional melodies with the imperatives of pop catchiness; tinny electric guitars, and sometimes fiddles or accordions or pennywhistles, recall the the sound of African instruments above saxophones, keyboards, electric bass and American trap drums. While the bands vamp, the vocal melodies expand and contract; familiar as the music sounds to rock-trained ears, singing along isn’t easy.

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Accordian Jive + awesome mustache

Accordian Jive + awesome mustache

Playlist

artist – song – album – year

Paul Simon/Hugh Masekela/Ladysmith Black Mambazo      Township Jive      Graceland 1987 live in Zimbabwe
Lulu Masilela     Ziphikile     Greatest Accodian Jive Hits Vol. 3     1972
Spokes Mashiyane     Banana Ba Rustenburg-     rare 78…     1940s
Dolly Rathebe with The African Inkspots     Unomeva         1954
Elite Swingsters     Thulandiville         1960
Mabel Mafuya & The Green Lanterns     Nomathemba         1956
Miriam Makeba     Dubula     Africa     Novus Series 1970
Dorothy Masuka     Ghana         1960s
Big Voice Jack     Baile Batho     Classic South Afican Jive         1967
Marula Boom Stars     Wathela, Wayeka         1964
Mavis Maseko     Ngonile Mama         1978
Hugh Masekela     Johannesburg Hi-Lite Jive     Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa     1971
Sipho Mabuse     Jive Soweto     s/t     1984
Soul Brothers     Akabongi     Jive Explosion     1994

029 Music from Benin 9-9-10

Posted by: afrika
Sep 10 2010 10:43 am

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Music from the great country of Benin in West Africa.

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Playlist

artist – song – album – label – (year)

Pedro Gnonnas y sus Panchos  –    Synthese  –    El Cochechivo  –       (1980)
Gangbe Brass Band  -   Eme Dja    -  Togbe    –      Contre Jour France records (2004)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou  -   Adin Gbanzon  -   Zero+Zero = Zero –   (Star Musique)
Nel Oliver –    Funny Love –   (1980 slow jam yalll)
Zeynab   -  Inan Ran
Lionel Loueke  -   Ami O  -   Mwaliko   –      (2010)
Angelique Kidjo –    Move On Up  -   Oyo    –     (2010)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou –    Malin Kpon O  -   Echos Hynotiques    -  Analog Africa -  (2009)
Don Metok  -   Gnonnou
Picoby Band d’Abomey  -   Mi Ma Kpe Dji  -   African Scream Contest     Analog Africa –   (2008)

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028 I Remember My Darling 9-2-10

Posted by: afrika
Sep 02 2010 8:08 pm

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Week 3 of school, and I’m still playing Nigerian music from my trip this summer!

We get into some Juju, Sakara, Waka, Highlife and lots of other goodies on CD garnered by weeks of grueling travel in the Nigerian savannah.

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Playlist

artist – song – album

Sir Shina Peters      track 4 …      Splendour
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey     Enia Nwoju     Evergreen Songs 15
King Sunny Ade     Ko le Ye Won     Morning Joy
I.K. Dairo     I Remember My Darling     I Remember My Darling
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Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & the People Star in London     Onwu Dinjo     Festac Explosion
Oliver de Coque and his Expo 76 Ogene Sound Super of Africa     Nwanne Di Na Mba     Classic Hits
Yinka Ayefele & His Merry Makers Band     E Yahweh     Fulfilment
Babtunde Olatunji     Odun de!     Drums of Passion
I.K. Dairo     Taxi Driver Gba Emi     Taxi Driver
Seun Kuti & his Egypt 80     Fire Dance     Many Things

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