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DJ Katapila
Aroo (12") [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 12in - released 23/Mar/2018 ] DJ Katapila's Aroo EP is the latest addition to the iconoclastic producer's catalog of fast-paced, pan West African-influenced dance music. |
Om Alec Khaoli
Say You Love Me (12") [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / 12in - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Re-issue on Awesome Tapes From Africa of "Om" Alec Khaoli, the musician behind Harari and Umoja. Say You Love Me wasn't "Om" Alec Khaoli's first solo recording, but the 1985 EP solidified the bass player and songwriter's standing as one of South... |
Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People
Mbavaira [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / Cassette - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Mujuru was Zimbabwe's foremost mbira (thumb piano) player who brought Shona music to the world. Mbavaira is now available outside Zimbabwe for the first time. All-acoustic, calming music for these times. Mbira importance grew with the struggle for... |
Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / Cassette - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Available on Vinyl LP, CD and Cassette. It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre |
Papé Nziengui Et Son Groupe
Kadi Yombo [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / Cassette - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. Combining beating rattles with a layer of synthesizers, Papé Nziengui blends in a... |
Penny Penny
Yogo Yogo [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / Cassette - released 9/Oct/2020 ] The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny's life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut Shaka Bundu and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South African singer and dancer known for his trademark top ponytail and... |
Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring... |
Asnakech Worku
Asnakech [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] There is perhaps no woman more cherished in modern Ethiopian history than Asnakech Worku. As a musician, actress, dancer and cultural icon, Asnakech inspired and challenged society for decades, until her death in 2011. From her beginnings as... |
Roger Bekono
Roger Bekono [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Cameroonian artist, musician, author, composer, performer and guitarist Roger Bekono made a deep mark in the contemporary history of Cameroonian music through the four-on-the-floor, ribald intensity of bikutsi. The Ewondo-language dance-pop style... |
Bola
Volume 7 [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Bola is a singer and instrumentalist from Bolgatanga, Ghana who has been putting out tape after tape of ridiculously energetic and thoughtful songs for the last few years. Bola's Volume 7 has intense Frafra-language vocals, along with shredding... |
DJ Black Low
Uwami [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] Debut LP by the remarkable producer from Pretoria, South Africa who has a singular take on amapiano. In many ways, DJ Black Low's debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist's first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad... |
DJ Katapila
Trotro [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Awesome Tapes From Africa are releasing a re-issue of Ghanaian DJ, producer and rapper DJ Katapila's Trotro album. DJ Katapila started producing music in the late 90's at the age of 39, and as his set progressed, he began adding live rapping over... |
Dur-Dur Band
Dur-Dur Band Volume 5 [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia’s contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant. Seeking inspiration outside the impressive array of Somali traditional music that was encouraged at... |
Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People
Mbavaira [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Mujuru was Zimbabwe's foremost mbira (thumb piano) player who brought Shona music to the world. -Available outside Zimbabwe for the first time. All-acoustic, calming music for these times. Mbira importance grew with the struggle for independence and... |
Hailu Mergia
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Hailu Mergia is an Ethiopian one-man-band accordion/keyboardist extraordinaire. Hailu made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings. Hailu Mergia's beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian... |
Hailu Mergia
Pioneer Works Swing (Live) [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA's expert audio extraction... |
Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the... |
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band
Tezeta [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple... |
Jess Sah Bi & Peter One
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] In the 1980s, Abidjan's Jess Sah Bi & Peter One became one of the most popular musical acts in not just the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), but broader West Africa, eventually performing with a full band to stadium-sized audiences at home and throughout... |
Hailu Mergia
Lala Belu [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] The "obscure outsider artist from beyond the west" has become a familiar trope for old music excavated in far-flung places, thanks in part to the eagle-eyed tape rummaging of intrepid label owners such as Brian Shimkovitz. Under his Awesome Tapes... |
