Second part of rich, and diverse Afro Pop, and Afrobeat musical scene of Kenya, and East Africa is featuring some fresh (13 years old Amani Gracious), and some older cuts (as it is late E-Sir), and of course plenty in between ...
Author: Akua
Sauti Sol blends warm resonant pop with traditional Kenyan influences. Their melange of energetic rhythms has promoted the group to become one of Africa’s most celebrated and East Africa’s pioneers of a fresh sound.
Reflecting on summer traveling, we look at the traveling of music, which has no boundaries ... from Africa to diaspora , and back, cross breeding, creating new forms.....as is Neo - Afrobeat.
In this musical edition we are featuring politically charged , as most of African musicians, Bobi Wine songs or Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who became an active politician to change situation in Uganda.
South African jazz has always incorporated local traditional styles alongside funk, R&B, and swing, to create unique forms like township jive and Cape jazz. Today's musical edition features colorful mix of jazz from the area with some known names....
Music with its universality of understanding, and touching us without filters, is the one which can teach us about other cultures. Here we are featuring some of traditional musical pieces of few of Kenyan tribes celebrating life rituals and traditions.
In Africa, electronic music is bubbling. Across the vast continent, fresh machine-generated sounds are popping off, sometimes drawing on outside influences, sometimes made within their own creative bubble. Out of them all gqom could be the most outlandish.
Jupiter Bokondji is remarkable both for the sense of danger and urgency he puts into in his music, and for the way he matches an extraordinary variety of Congolese rhythms and languages against western influences
For Sunday listening, and just after World Music Day we are listening some African gospel, accapela, R&B, jazz, soul...
For the Worl Music Day , for those who are more on the jazzy side.....some of the classics, and some out of the blue....