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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Two Worlds, One Heart

Artist: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
CD title: Two Worlds, One Heart
Release date: 1990
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Sub-genre: Isicathamiya
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192-320 Kbit
Time: 00:48:31
Total size: 60,2 MB
Info: Cover-art included

Tracks:
01. Township Jive [00:04:40]
02. Ofana Naye (Nobody Like Him) [00:04:51]
03. Bala Ubhale (Count And Write) [00:04:14]
04. Love Your Neighbour [00:04:02]
05. Leaning On The Everlasting Arm [00:04:53]
06. Rejoice [00:04:02]
07. Hayi Ngalesiskhathi (Not Right Now) [00:04:10]
08. Emhlabeni (In This World) [00:03:44]
09. Isiklahthi Siyimali (Time Is Money) [00:03:35]
10. Nami Ngaze Ngamthola (I Found Him) [00:03:43]
11. Ngomnyanga (By The Door) [00:01:51]
12. Scatter The Fire [00:03:23]
13. Cothoza Mfana (Tip Toes Guy) [00:01:17]

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Rokia Traore - Bowmboi

Album : Bowmboi
Artist : Rokia Traore
Release Date : 2004
Label : Nonesuch
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:00:09
Total size : 138 MB

Tracks :
1. M'Bifo
2. Sara
3. Kote Don
4. Mariama
5. Manian
6. Deli
7. Nienafing
8. Kele Mandi
9. Kanou
10. Bowmboi

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Malian singer Rokia Traore attracted a lot of attention with her 1998 debut Mouneissa and the even better Wanita in 2000. Now the singer-songwriter returns with Bowmboi, an album filled with creative aspiration but still set within the framework of traditional Malian instrumentation. As with the past efforts, the singer is again accompanied by acoustic guitar, n'goni (African lute), kora harp and balafon (a buzzing marimba). But here the stripped-down songs are darker and more mature, creating an overall vibe that sensuously haunting, particularly when she adds polyphonic multi-track call-and-response vocals. Amidst these earthy arrangements, the Kronos Quartet joins in for "Manian" and "Bowmboi." Having a western and modern classical feel, the music is a departure that nonetheless works because Traore matches their rhythms while staying within her creative vision. Indeed, her singing in her native Bamanan is the cornerstone to the album, soaring high and erupting into cadenzas or riding long wavering lines that shimmer with passion.
-Tad Hendrickson

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Gabin Dabiré
Afriki Djamana

Album : Afriki Djamana
Artist : Gabin Dabiré
Release Date : 1997
Label : Amiata Records
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : Ethnic
Total time : 01:03:14
Total size : 58,3 MB

Tracks :
01. Sénégal
02. Djilbié
03. Bibilé
04. Guidiga
05. Kjima
06. Kalé
07. Bagà bagà
08. Moso
09. Mamidi
10. Mana mana ko
11. Amadou
12. Mousso

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Gabin Dabiré offers us an extraordinary work in which the absorbing rythm and subtile melodies of his native country, Burkina Faso, are echoed in his very organic earthbounded music.
Performed by Gabin and Paul Dabiré with the singular support of the Koteba Ensemble.

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Tinariwen
Amassakoul [2004]

Artist: Tinariwen
CD title: Amassakoul
Release date: 2004
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: African rock
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 128 Kbit
Duration: 45,55
Total size: 42 MB

Tracks:
01 - Amassakoul 'N'Ténéré [00:03:24]
02 - Tinariwen - Oualahila Ar Teninam [00:03:47]
03 - Tinariwen – Chatma [00:05:36]
04 - Tinariwen – Arawan [00:04:06]
05 - Chet Boghassa [00:03:52]
06 - Tinariwen – Amidinin [00:02:51]
07 - Tinariwen - Ténéré Daféo Nikchan [00:04:51]
08 - Tinariwen - Aldhechen Manin [00:03:54]
09 - Tinariwen - Alkhar Dessouf [00:04:55]
10 - Tinariwen - Eh Massina Sintadoben [00:04:29]
11 - Tinariwen – Assoul [00:04:06]

Background information:
Tinariwen strip rock down to its basic building blocks of rhythm, guitars, and voice. On their second CD there are no fancy studio tricks or multiple overdubs. They stick to what they've shown they do well -- keep the music raw and emotional. While there are similarities to the desert blues of Mali, these Tuareg nomads from the Western Sahara are as much as rock band as the Stones at their best, capable of conjuring up magic with a guitar riff or lick. Oftentimes, the music has the same bluesy, undulating, hypnotic rhythm of a camel crossing the sand, as on "Aldhechen Manin." But they can also crank the amps and unleash something to tingle the spine and feet, which they do on "Oualahila Ar Tesninam," as frantic and primal a piece of rock & roll as you're likely to find. There's even a touch of rap on "Arawan." But there's a complexity in their basic approach, the interlocking layers of electric guitars and the plaintive, defiant voices. To listen to Tinariwen is to believe once more in rock and its power. This is angry and passionate; it's dangerous music in the very best sense. Western bands might have forgotten how to rock as if their lives depended on it; Tinariwen can teach them. (AMG)

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Miriam Makeba
Sangoma

Artist: Miriam Makeba
CD title: Sangoma
Label: Warner Bros./Wea
Release date: 1990
Original release: 1988
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320Kbit
Time: 00:42:57
Total size: 98,2 MB

Tracks:
1 Emabhaceni
2 Baxabene Oxamu
3 Ngalala Phantsi
4 Ihoyiya
5 Kulo Nyaka
6 Baya Jabula
7 Mabhongo
8 Ingwemabala
9 Mosadi ku Rima
10 Angilalanga
11 Ungakanani
12 Ngiya Khuyeka
13 Nyankwabe
14 Sambuyoma
15 Congo
16 Nginani Na
17 Imam Uyajabula
18 Nyamuthla
19 Icala
20 Masakhane
21 Amaliya
22 Pata Pata 200
23 Cause We Live For Love
24 Lewawechi
25 Homeland
26 Afrika is where My Heart Lies
27 In Time

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A sangoma is a traditional healer, one who channels the ancestral spirits who advise the living. On this impeccably produced CD, Miriam Makeba returns to her roots, singing the songs of her childhood, and in the process seeks to heal the wounds of apartheid and 30 years of exile from her South African home. The songs here are parables, lullabies, and gathering songs, deeply spiritual and moving. They are songs of struggle and perseverance delivered by Africa's best-loved voice. Mama Africa (Makeba's nickname) is joined by a group of soulful women singers. Some songs feature understated percussion; others are gloriously unadorned a cappella. This is an essential timeless album from one of the world's greatest singers.
--Jeff Grubb

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Stella Chiweshe - Ndizvozvo

Album : Ndizvozvo
Artist : Stella Chiweshe
Release Date : 1989
Label : Piranha
Total size : 75,4 MB
Total time : 00:54 :53

Tracks :
1. Chachimurenga
2. Nehondo
3. Njuzu
4. Mugomba
5. Chamakuwende
6. Kassahwa
7. Chipindura
8. Ndinogarochema
9. Sarura wako
10. Kachembere
11. Cha pfudzapasi
12. Ndikafa
13. Vana vako vopera

@ 192 Kbit/s mp3

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe
The Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe

Her Majesty - The Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe - like Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is often called, is the first female artist who gained in prestige and has been honored with recognition in a music tradition that's been dominated by men: in Mbira music - known as the backbone of Zimbabwean music.
She is one of the few musicians in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, who since more than 35 years is working in the role of traditional Mbira musician. When Zimbabwe was still a Rhodesian colony, Stella secretly was recognized as a Mbira player at forbidden ceremonies. Before independence Mbira instruments had to be kept hidden, because the colonial government had banned the instrument fearing its magical powers. Playing Mbira was punished with prison. After playing through the whole night at forbidden reunions, Stella then returned to her every-day-struggle of survival as a young girl within a colonial environment.

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Angelique Kidjo - Parakou

Album : Parakou
Artist : Angelique Kidjo
Release Date : 1990
Label : Polygram
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:34:27
Total size : 47,3 MB

Tracks :
1. Alindjo
2. Zanku
3. Doliéo
4. Agossi
5. Kpeti-Kpeti
6. Gogbahoun
7. Blewu - Angélique Kidjo, Bellow, Bella
8. Yonnoun
9. Tanyin

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South Africa presents: Women with a Voice

Year: 2007
Style: World, Jazz, Pop
Country: South Africa
Label: Skip
Format: mp3
Quality: 224 kbps
Size: 108 MB

Tracklist:
01. Simphiwe Dana - Vukani
02. Thandiswa - Nizalwa Ngobani
03. Busi Mhlongo - Yehlisan'Umoya Ma-Afrika
04. Nana - Koboyi
05. Gloria Bosman - Natures Dances
06. Judith Sephuma - Iya Iyo
07. Sibongile Khumalo - Seliyana
08. Thandi Klaasen - Sophiatown
09. Letta Mbulu - Not Yet Uhuru
10. Mahotella Queens - Ntyilo Ntyilo
11. Suthukazi Arosi - Abafazi Balelali
12. Tu Nokwe - Shosholoza
13. Miriam Makeba - Back Of The Moon

The collection of 13 fabulous female vocalists from South Africa being presented is already something very special, even if it's simply because all of these artists have biographies that stand in direct correlation to political events. Though apartheid has come to an end, so many multifaced problems still exist in South Africa that all of these vocalists are raising their voices in the interests of "their" people. "Women With A Voice" is displaying the broad spectrum of styles and generations fort he first time: from Mbaqanga to Jazz, from Maskanda to modern Afro-Pop, from highly promising newcomers on the scene to legendary "divas". This album is a tribute to the South African music scene in its creatively outstanding multicomplexity , spanning the range from South Africa's most recent star Simphiwe Dana to divas like Sibongile Khumalo, Letta Mbulu , Busi Mhlongo or Gloria Bosman and of course Mama Africa Miriam Makeba. An event for all fans of great female voices from Africa.

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Tinariwen
Aman Iman

Artist: Tinariwen
CD title: Aman Iman
Released date: 2007
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: African Rock
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256 Kbit
Duration: 00:54:18
Total size: 99,3 MB

Tracks:
01. Cler Achel [00:04:27]
02. Mano Dayak [00:05:43]
03. Matadjem Yinmixan [00:05:45]
04. Ahimana [00:04:58]
05. Soixante Trois [00:04:13]
06. Toumast [00:04:26]
07. Imidiwan Winakalin [00:04:27]
08. Awa Didjen [00:04:14]
09. Ikyadarh Dim [00:03:37]
10. Tamatant Tilay [00:03:21]
11. Assouf [00:03:58]
12. Izarharh Tenere [00:05:04]

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Miriam Makeba
Homeland

Album : Homeland
Artist : Miriam Makeba
Release Date : 2000
Label : Putumayo
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:42:19
Total size : 66,2 MB

Tracks :
01. Masakhane 4:42
02. Amaliya 3:12
03. Pata Pata 2000 3:49
04. 'Cause We Live for Love 4:35
05. Liwawechi 3:30
06. Lindelani 3:14
07. Homeland 4:06
08. Umhome 5:09
09. Africa is where my heart lies 4:39

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Amazon.com
With her first studio recording in six years, Miriam Makeba makes a remarkably rootsy return, celebrating both South Africa and her place in it. Both "Masakhane" and a reworking of her international hit from the '60s ("Pata Pata 2000") positively shimmer with loping South African rhythms and harmonies. But Makeba is also an accomplished ballad and jazz singer, and both of those facets are shown, in songs like "Amaliya" and "Unhome," where the piano work recalls the township jazz of people like Abdullah Ibrahim and Chris MacGregor. Makeba's voice has acquired a compassion and even greater control as she's grown older, but she never sounds old--in fact, there's an incredible energy about this record. While every track is a joy, the real highlights come when the rootsy elements are emphasized and things simply kick. If you thought Graceland or Ladysmith Black Mambazo encapsulated the sound of South Africa, take a listen to this--the country's queen of song has returned in full voice.
--Chris Nickson

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Angelique Kidjo - Logozo

Album : Logozo
Artist : Angelique Kidjo
Release Date : 1991
Label : Mango
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:39:35
Total size : 54,4 MB

Tracks :
1. Batonga
2. Tché-Tché
3. Logozo
4. Wé-Wé
5. Malaika - Angélique Kidjo, Traditional
6. Ewa Ka Djo
7. Kaléta
8. Elédjiré
9. Sénié - Angélique Kidjo, Bella
10. Ekoléya

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Tinariwen
Imidiwan: Companions

Album : Imidiwan: Companions
Artist : Tinariwen
Release date : 2009
Label : Indipendiente
Number of discs : 1
Total size : 113 MB
Total time : 00:49:32

Tracks :
1.Imidiwan Afrik Tendam
2.Lulla
3.Tenhert
4.Enseqi Ehad Didagh
5.Tahult In
6.Tamudjeras Assis
7.Intitlayaghen
8.Imazaghen N Adagh
9.Chegret
10.Kel Tamashek
11.Assuf Ag Assuf
12.Chabiba
13.Ere Tasfata Adounia
14.Desert Wind

@ VBR mp3

CD Description
Legendary poet guitarists and soul rebels Tinariwen release their long-awaited follow up to the award-winning 'Aman Iman' CD. 'IMIDIWAN: Companions' is a return to the source. The album was recorded last winter in the depths of the southern Sahara desert by engineer / producer Jean-Paul Romann. It features thirteen songs composed and sung by Ibrahim 'Abaraybone', Hassan 'Le Lion', Abdallah 'Catastrophe', Mohammed 'Japonais' and Abdallah 'Intidao'. The themes are as powerful as ever; homesickness, loss, the struggle for freedom and love of the desert. The mood is vintage Tinariwen; defiant, fragile, raw and uncompromisingly real. 'IMIDIWAN' is reaffirms Tinariwen's global status as one of the most popular and significant groups ever to have come out of West Africa. The CD is accompanied by a DVD of a short film shot on location in the Sahara by French film maker Jessy Nottola.

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Angelique Kidjo - Fifa

Album : Fifa
Artist : Angelique Kidjo
Release Date : 1996
Label : Mango
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:43:42
Total size : 50 MB

Tracks :
1. The Sound of the Drums
2. Wombo Lombo
3. Welcome
4. Shango
5. Bitchifi
6. Fifa
7. Goddess of the Sea
8. Akwaba
9. Koro-Koro
10. Naïma

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Kidjo takes further strides from African tradition to western soul-pop with the star-studded, 10-track Fifa. The diminutive diva from Benin with the big voice may offend some with her perceived "sellout," but she answers in turn that western pop is a worldwide phenomenon--and she is not afraid to assimilate it into her own music. With stars like Ray Lema and Jacob Desvarieux backing her up, Kidjo determinedly goes where she wants. Underneath the glossy beats of tracks like "Wombo Lombo," "Welcome," and "Koro Koro" lies a canny use of traditional structures and motifs. Kidjo can also handle pure African ballads like "Naima" (with guitar work from Carlos Santana), but her ability to marry music forms has hindered the efforts of the marketing folks, confused by an artist with feet so firmly planted on both sides of the aisle.
--Derek Rath

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Stella Chiweshe - Chisi

Album : Chisi
Artist : Stella Chiweshe
Release Date : 1990
Label: Piranha
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:59:19
Total size : 136 MB

Tracks :
1. Ndinderere
2. Huya Uzoona
3. Mikono
4. Nyamaropa Pachipembere
5. Gwendere-Gwendere
6. Mapere
7. Kudara Kwangu
8. Rwuye-Rwuye
9. Mudzimu Dzoka
10. Machena
11. Baya Wa Baya
12. Zungunde
13. Dande
14. Mese Maikwana
15. Kuzanga

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This mercilessly grooving album cycles through all variation of possible mbira sounds. For the first time on record the technically perfect recording makes the essential junction of mbira and hosho (rattle) audible. Mbira and marimba together create irresistible dance grooves while traditional western drumset, electric guitar and bass drive along in an inimitable Zimbabwean fashion.

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