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Ata Kak's first new song in over 30 years! Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. While it barely made a ripple at the time of its release in 1994, the cassette found a new life online in 2006. A not-so-underground cult obsession grew after it appeared on the blog Awesome Tapes From Africa as its very first post, a sort of manifesto for the pro...

Moskito—Why Wena by Awesome Tapes From Africa

Jess Sah Bi & Peter One "Our Garden Needs Its Flowers" was a revelation to many folks outside West Africa when it was reissued worldwide a few years ago. However, the Country-Americana duo from Ivory Coast has been massive since they emerged in the mid-80s, playing stadiums and making a beloved home in peoples' ears across the region for decades. The enormous response from listeners and press arou...

Moskito—Mashonisa (Album out 23 May) by Awesome Tapes From Africa

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Hailu Mergia — Yegle Nesh (Live) by Awesome Tapes From Africa

Hailu Mergia — Tizita by Awesome Tapes From Africa

Pre-order Roger Bekono LP/CD/Tape/Digital https://lnk.to/RogerBekono 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 that forms an undulating tapestry of interlocking triplet rhythmic interplay came to international prominence in the European “world music” scene as the 90s...

First single from the forthcoming double LP Impumelelo, out March 17 on LP & Digital.

DJ Black Low "Impumelelo" comes out 17 March on LP and Digital formats: https://lnk.to/DJBlackLow_Impumelelo There’s more than a hint of ambition on the double LP sophomore effort from Sam Austin Rabede, the producer known as DJ Black Low. Pretoria, South Africa-born and based, the young man makes amapiano with new ways of expressing this local-turned-global style of dance music. In DJ Black Low’s...

Preorder https://lnk.to/DJBlackLow_Impumelelo Album out March 17!

LP out Dec 16, 2022, digital available now

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Pape Nziengui et son groupe #bwiti #ngombi LP/CD/Tape/Digital out April 8 https://linktr.ee/PapeNziengui 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 contrapuntal dialogue characteristic of harp...

Papé Nziengui et son Groupe: modernized traditional music from Gabon (1989) Pre orer LP/CD/Tape/Digital https://linktr.ee/PapeNziengui 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 contrapuntal d...

Teno Afrika's new album "Where You Are" Digital version out now https://linktr.ee/TenoAfrika Teno Afrika’s 2020 debut Amapiano Selections drew an international wave of support sparked by the producer’s deftly minimal take on the emergent style. Amapiano combines the South African predilection for deep house alongside a melange of endemic influences like kwaito, jazz and gqom. The 22-year-old’s new...

New album just announced following a huge 2021 for Teno Afrika! Teno Afrika’s 2020 debut Amapiano Selections drew an international wave of support sparked by the producer’s deftly minimal take on the emergent style. Amapiano combines the South African predilection for deep house alongside a melange of endemic influences like kwaito, jazz and gqom. The 22-year-old’s new crop of songs Where You Are...

New album out on digital platforms Feb 4, 2022 https://linktr.ee/TenoAfrika

Native Soul "Teenage Dreams" out 24 Sept on Awesome Tapes From Africa. Pre-order/Stream: https://linktr.ee/NativeSoulSA mastering by Jessica Thompson photos by Tshepo Moloi text by Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi In common parlance, the two producers who make up Native Soul would be considered “ma2000”—or, born after the onset of democracy, having never experienced Apartheid—by virtue of their age. Kgothatso...

Young South African duo Native Soul's debut LP Teenage Dreams comes out on Awesome Tapes From Africa on Sept 24. It's a double LP of slow-burning amapiano that reflects the sheer bleakness of 2020 (and 2021?). https://linktr.ee/NativeSoulSA

Debut album, Teenage Dreams by Native Soul available Sept 24 on LP/CD/Digital formats https://linktr.ee/NativeSoulSA

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The Beginning by Awesome Tapes From Africa

Rejoice feat. TapSoul by Awesome Tapes From Africa