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This Week's Playlist #45 - The African pioneers edition

Thomas Seropian
Nov 13, 2022
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Week #45 - The African pioneers edition

TL;DR: I'm running a weekly newsletter with 5 songs and a short description, and a matching Spotify playlist if you want to subscribe.

For the non-Spotify readers, there is a Youtube link for each of the songs on the cover.

Hello everyone!

I focused on a various range of topics and countries since I've started this newsletter but not on Africa.

Here are 5 songs from my collection about some of the African musician pioneers I've been listening to across the years. 

Let's go!

Fela Kuti - Zombie

Fela Kuti, inventor of the Afrobeat genre of music, emerged from Nigeria to become both a musical and cultural messiah for his country in the '70s. Zombie is one of his massive hits, taking a stgance against the military power in Nigeria in that decade.

Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom)

Another classic, here, from the inventor of Ethiojazz.

Nihilixoca - Endongo

Nihiloxica harnesses the full force of the ancient Bugandan drumming tradition of Uganda and focuses it on the contemporary dance floor through a dark lens of techno beats.

Maman Sanni - Tunan

Another pioneer here, Mamman Sani Abdullaye is a legendary name amongst Niger's avant garde & early West African electronic music.

Toure Raichel Collective - Azwade

A collaboration track (or album, rather) to finish this week. Idan Raichel is one of Israel's top-selling pop musicians. Vieux Farka Toure is a virtuoso guitarist from Mali. A random connection in a German airport led to an amazing collaboration of 2 albums. A very meditative and unscripted, improvised jam session.

Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas

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Previous episodes

  • Week #43: The Halloween edition

  • Week #42: The London edition

  • Week #41: The Jetlag edition

  • Week #40: The Coolio edition

  • Week #39: The trumpet edition

  • Week #38: The Armenia edition

  • Week #37: The Piano edition, volume 2

  • Week #36: The Red Thread edition

  • Week #35: The Taylor Hawkins edition

  • Week #34: The Summer Bank Holiday edition

  • Week #33: The Readers' digest #2: the Jazz edition

  • Week #32: The Palestine edition

  • Week #31: The City edition (& a heavy metal bonus)

  • Week #30: The Piano edition

  • Week #29: The Heatwave edition

  • Week #28: The Bastille Day edition (+ another a heavy metal bonus)

  • Week #27: The "Best albums of 2022 so far" edition

  • Week #26: Happy summer

  • Week #25: The Hellfest edition

  • Week #24: The Pride edition

  • Week #23: The Basketball edition

  • Week #22: The Bank Holiday edition (+ another a heavy metal bonus)

  • Week #21: The Mother's Day edition & a heavy metal bonus

  • Week #20: The Vangelis edition

  • Week #19: The Saxophone edition

  • Week #18: The Lebanese edition

  • Week #17: The "Labour Day" edition

  • Week #16: The "My friends got talent" edition

  • Week #15: Happy Easter

  • Week #14: Famous bands I started to listen to at the age of 40

  • Week #13: The Number of the Beast edition

  • Week #12: The Fat of the Land edition

  • Week #11: The Modern Soul voices

  • Week #10: Heavy metal goes pop music

  • Week #09: The Mask edition

  • Week #08: RIP Mark Lanegan

  • Week #07:

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  • Week #05: The readers’ digest

  • Week #04: 

  • Week #03: Albums for 2022 2/2

  • Week #02: Albums for 2022 1/2

  • Week #01: Happy New Year

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