That was from a Sahelsounds tweet. I am just trying to help Moctar and Sahelsounds out. Have seen Moctar live 3 times and he and his band are wonderful. They deserve well-paying gigs in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Jason King in his year-end piece as part of the Slate discussion among critics:
Though Africa has largely fallen off the American news radar, the music rocketing out of the continent remains straight fire. Projects by GuiltyBeatz, Aka, Fatoumata Diawara, Seun Kuti, Femi Kuti, Emmanuel Jal, Burna Boy, Muzi, Tal National, and Ammar 808 are all worth streaming. My favorite contemporary record this year, however, was I’m a Dream, the sophomore set from Gambian-Swedish chanteuse Seinabo Sey.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/2018-music-both-directions-at-once-coltrane.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
xp ah, okay.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2027032/barack-obama-best-songs-2018/news/
Jupiter & Okwess are on it; Fatoumata Diawara too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2019 Thread Once Known as World Music
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link