Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge’s Jazz Is Dead label is releasing a Tony Allen album. Allen, who passed in 2020, was the innovative drummer who helped Fela Kuti created the Afrobeat genre. Their work together added a new vocabulary to the world of rhythm. Younge and Muhammad were luckyContinue Reading
BANTU’s “Wayo and Division” is their latest response to Nigerian politics. The West African country just held elections in February that are currently being contested in court by candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who came in second and third place. Famed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote a letterContinue Reading
Red Hot’s Red Hot + Riot tribute to Fela Kuti marks its 20th anniversary in 2022 and it has a reissue to mark the occasion. Today is World AIDs Day and the recording is now available for the first time on streaming services and has been remastered with two hoursContinue Reading
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