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Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
>Two blind musicians from Mali. Album produced by Manu Chao, who stamps his trademark sound onto a couple of tracks. Afro-blues
http://www.mediafire.com/?c0jcq90h8a4zywj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgafofMfBFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frRM6NzB5vw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIXUHZaEloE

Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life
>African Jazz-Funk
http://www.mediafire.com/?ziznzj2yyeh

Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté - In The Heart Of The Moon
>Legendary Malian Guitarist Ali Farka Toure joined up with Toumani Diabaté just months before his death to record this album. Won a grammy. Acoustic guitar, Kora and vocals. Gentle and beautiful
http://www.mediafire.com/?4wt11wi73yi556q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etl32ENV14Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muh30nfHk78

Toumani Diabate - New Ancient Strings
>African Folk Music, Mande Folk Music
http://www.mediafire.com/?j0cwjmvjjj5

Tinariwen - Aman Iman
>Electric blues from the Toureg desert-people of Mali
http://www.mediafire.com/?2696vg4bh3saf9u

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hR6eWexxZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k20KewxFO2k

Tinariwen - Tassilli
>More acoustic and gentle than their other albums. Won a Grammy
http://www.mediafire.com/?kxu04t5v6ta4v7y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iorfsFAJJsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOV5jEa-vwc

As always, cheers Malcom X-Wing. I always see you contributing in threads I'm interested in

I only have one more thing to share, but it's really cool. Sorry for rapidshit.

African Disco - Deep Disco From 1970s Africa
>Disco
http://rapidshare.com/files/395575856/VA_-__2003__AD.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/395575964/VA_-__2003__AD.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/395576328/VA_-__2003__AD.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/395576126/VA_-__2003__AD.part4.rar.html

Very cool & interesting compilation.

Anouar Brahem - Conte de l'Incroyable Amour
>Traditional Tunisian Music. Listening to this instantly makes you feel like you're in the middle of a desert. One of my favourite albums to put on late in the evening to relax to
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|332p11|186649462|Anouar_Brahem_-_1992_-_Conte_de_l__incroyable_amo
ur.rar|118804|R~54E0BE12CE92BB790902CF55983C49C9|0|0
Apologies for rapidshare, I couldn't quickly find it on any other site. I can upload my copy to Mediafire if anyone wants it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL8fYnUvsho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbINkei3Ww

>>24100453

Wish I could contribute more, but sadly I know nothing about African music.

Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché
>Female singer from Mali. Gentle and beautiful. Currently one of my favourite albums, I strongly recommend downloading this
http://www.mediafire.com/?37bq8z995k6233o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgv56lRaW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yI3SKoI6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQlTmUnmvI

>mfw I wish I could contribute, but the only music that I've found in my travels around East Africa is some really bad hip-hop & even if it was worth sharing, I can't find links for any of it anywhere

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - Tell No Lies
>British guitarist Justin Adams teams up with Gambian musician Juldeh Camara. Blues-y rock with a strong african feeling. Hard to describe with words, check out the youtube links
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|617p3|232054750|JAJC2009.rar|126833|R~4873A737FED4FF99E0ED3CA35068
8D23|0|0
Again, sorry for Rapidshare

I can't find the songs I want to show you on youtube, but here's some samples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGgCUENAN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SolQlP24huw

Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè Mèla Mèla
>Ethiopian singer who has covered a lot of different ground genre-wise, this album fuses what we would recognise as the Western soul music sound in a traditional Ethiopian-style package, the passion and instruments used are very "soul" r&b as we know it but the delivery and phrasing of the music keep it sounding unmistakably African, interesting to listen to to hear the twinning of the two and the concessions and compromises made to keep one foot in each of the two camps
http://www.mediafire.com/?oak7a2e9yz5t7iq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjNJJFCT8_U

>>24100636
Forgot the album cover

>>24100602
I really don't have any East African music, most of what I have is West Africa. Mali appears to have an awesome music scene for some strange reason

I hope this is okay, not exactly folk music.

Tony Allen - Jealousy/Progress (1975-7)
>afrobeat, african funk, drummer for Fela Kuti playing with the Africa '70
http://www.mediafire.com/?v6d2u22psj5ivov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehm-2h5aEbI

>>24100336
>Legendary Malian Guitarist Ali Farka Toure joined up with Toumani Diabaté just months before his death to record this album

I had no idea, thought he just doesn't record as much anymore...

The Lijadu Sisters - Danger
>Nigerian afrobeat from twin sisters Kehinde and Taiwo Lijadu, influences include funk, disco, and pop as well as more traditional African/Nigerian sounds, fun album with some great jerky and off beat pop tunes, released in 1976 it sounds a lot like the album cover looks
http://www.mediafire.com/?mwnofl8zr2332vb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bc6XJvv5Bc

King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
>Apparently the genre for this is "Jùjú" Nigerian. Awesome
http://www.mediafire.com/?2hgzgwwznjm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBxreBgrJSA

Mahmoud Awad - Sheikh To The Future
>music from the future, arabic electropop, post-music, progressive dreamfunk
http://www.mediafire.com/?9ic5k3dso9a6gr1

Tryin' to upload Mulatu of Ethiopia right now.

Babatunde Olatunji - Drums of Passion (1959)
>african percussion, apparently important to the development of world music as an interest
http://www.mediafire.com/?fd9zx2ckd1xfals
sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYhFyF8dvU4

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Segu Blue
>Mande folk from Mali
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|422p7|385583286|Bassekou_Kouyate___Ngoni_ba_-_Segu_Blue.rar|53998|
R~3D3BB1CDAD5275B66BE3CFB9D35D9F21|0|0
Again, my apologies for the rapidshare link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moLrtkz5z8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTezhnRGGA

>>24100749
Mulatu Astatqe - Mulatu of Ethiopia (1972)
>afrobeat from Mulatu Astatqe, known as the father of Ethiopian jazz, a vibraphonist
>feels more like night-time music, smoother, darker
>check the smooth motherfucker on the cover
http://www.mediafire.com/?p3o84mcb3esg9po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safPXb8wc8A

>>24100172
Tsunami Diabetes?

Peter King - Shango
>Peter King is a Nigerian afro-beat tenor saxophonist and on this album (recorded in the mid -70s but not released until the early 2000s, I think) he and his band of merry men blast through clutch of jazz and funk tinged afro-beat tunes, upbeat, funky and danceable album that makes your neck do a funny little bobbing dance.
http://www.mediafire.com/?lu5uwhlnzba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzgRV5jBYw8

Ebo Taylor - Life Stories
>released last year this album has a very appropriate title, it really does try to condense as much of his musical life into one album (the fact that it's subtitled as 1973 - 80 makes me think there's more to come), apparently he was so prolific (as a singer, producer, composer and band leader) that the 16 tracks here on this compilation don't quite do him justice, includes solo work as well as well as work with others including Super Sounds Namba, Uhuru-Yenzu, Pat Thomas and CK Mann Big Band, Ghanian highlife and afrobeat sounds.
http://www.mediafire.com/?cmashbkz3vxtc5w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daZXZaodK1Q

>>24100209

>produced by Manu Chao
>samples sound amazing

>>24100969
And they're blind! Hip as fuck.

>>24100209
>Future's so bright, We're blind

>>24100982

Anything similar or not you could recommend? I just know Tinariwen and some compilations made by some crazy folks.

>>24100336
one of my favorite albums of all time. you should get this.

also, awesome thread, keep 'em coming

>>24101007
I've never even listened to them, sorry.

If you want more music made by people with impairments then The Handless Organist is truly a miracle of god.

>>24101007
Oh, just remembered that they released an album this year.

http://exystence.net/blog/2012/03/23/amadou-mariam-folila-2012/

Not sure if there's any other links available - I just remembered that it was on that blog.

Ali Farka Toure - The Source
>Legendary Malian guitar player. Guitar, vocals and percussion.
http://www.mediafire.com/?s0z5tjjcosogzqb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqnuw1uK1Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xug-A-H8Q_0

>>24101045
I don't know about their latest album but their 2008 album "Welcome to Mali" was disappointing to me. They went a bit too westernised, electric and overproduced and lost a lot of the African charm that made me like them. Hopefully the new album goes back to the roots a bit more

Ali Farka Toure - Savane
>More of the same from Ali Farka
http://rapidshare.com/files/176877902/Ali_Farka_Tour__-_Savane-MP3.rar

>>24101090
Yeah, in the site I linked I noticed that it said they had worked with people like Santigold and TV On The Radio. Like I said I haven't listened to any of their stuff so I don't know how much it would change their sound but they were names I wouldn't really expect to see there.

Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
>Senegalese folk / blues
http://www.mediafire.com/?4cnyn449my7fq5j

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdca-Q-2ak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2nBn3gZdKg

>>24101136
TV on the radio did a track with Tinariwen which is pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUuuW13Fp8

OP here, I've pretty much ran out of things to share apart from a few scraps and albums by artists I've already posted. Thanks to everyone who got involved

Anyone got some Fela Kuti shares? Expensive Shit would be nice

>this thread

Anything else like these two?
>>24100448
>>24100336

>>24101270
For more Ali Farka Toure:
>>24101076
>>24101122
For more Toumani Diabate
>>24100380

I have 2 more Tinariwen albums that I can share, and there's another one already in this thread

>>24101286
Please post the other 2 Tinariwen albums.

>>24101254
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
>Nigerian afrobeat, the funky brown brother who made love to your mother. This description is bad and I just grabbed this from filestube, highest quality there was on there.
http://www.mediafire.com/?g3zzqcvhcxe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9S0T0eCdy4

Tinariwen - Imidiwan
>Afro-blues from Mali
http://www.mediafire.com/?eyhmrywyazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQpnpLLD6Q

Tinariwen - Amassakoul
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzwzzmtlwmt

>>24101351
>>24101331
Thanks.

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|55p8|310993254|Tony_Allen___His_Afro_Messengers_-_No_Discriminatio
n_-1978-.rar|57647|R~1B7244D9326377D022BF2F0A758017A3|0|0

>>24101407
Dead link
;_;

>>24101427
works for me

>>24101427
Copy it and paste it rather than highlighting it and clicking 'go to' or whatever. Seems to work just fine.

>>24100993
You fucker.

best thread ever

Amandla - First Tour Live
>south african folk / pop, triforce-core
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?43j8zijp0emaw9q

>>24102738
Whilst trying to find some of their songs on youtube before deciding whether to download this, I found a pretty cool blog which has a lot of Afican music on it

http://electricjive.blogspot.co.uk/

>>24100894
I'm loving this

>>24100336
>>24100172
A thousand thanks, this is all amazing stuff.

moar

>>24100556
>>24100261
>>24100209
>>24100172
Briefly listened to all of these and they are awesome. Will download everything in this thread

bamp

OP here, I've pretty much run out of albums to share, I'm just gonna post little odds and ends every now and again to keep this bumped and alive so that more people will see it and hopefully contribute

Orchestra Baobab - N'Wolof
>70s Senegalese band mixing African and Cuban music. I think this might be a compilation, I'm not sure
http://www.mediafire.com/?28k2cedtm989mdu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByEVtvUsP5s

Ali Farka Toure has to be one of the best guitarists ever

best thread

Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy By Magic
>I'm not a huge fan of this album, but it has one of the best album names ever. From the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The only mediafire link I could find was split into two parts:
http://www.mediafire.com/?durjnt4mrdu
http://www.mediafire.com/?tnnzmynlnyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my7-WqbCWw8

Awesome thread
keep it alive guys

This album is really good

Does someone have a mediafire link?

Ah, I can't believe I forgot to post this one

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - The Star and the Wise Man
>Zulu choir, "discovered" and bought to western recognition by Paul Simon when he got them to do backing vocals on Graceland. This is a "best of" compilation because they have a ridiculous number of albums
http://rapidshare.com/files/393197172/ladysmith_black_mambazo_-the_star_and_the_wiseman-_1990.rar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwpI8njHsM

>>24105548
http://www.mediafire.com/?6us46tr6j9k0w1g

>>24105638


Thank you! How do you find it so easily?

>>24105702
Filestube.com

With mediafire links don't click the "download" button, mediafire will give you a random error. Copy-paste the url into your address bas and it will work

okay :3

http://chanarchive.org/request_votes

It's been a nice thread.

>>24100515
Then shut the fuck up and stop posting you fucking tripfag

What a fucking surprise, tripfags posting only afrobeat and "I wish I could have more some to post ; ; "

>>24105825
If you can do better then why don't you post something?

>>24105786

Don't archive, that's how links get deleted.

>>24105786
Just save the thread if you want to see it again

MOAR

>>24107110
OP here, I'm afraid I've shared pretty much all the albums I know