Whooooaaaaaa! Yet another 70s afrofunk compilation… this one caught our attention though. Maybe because it has Pierre Antoine’s BANGING track Kalabuley Women. Clocking in at 11:40, it should get you going for a while. Grab this comp in iTunes, follow Julien Lebrun, bossman behind the Hot Casa Records imprint. And if you still want more, check out this super deep set by Frank of Voodoofunk, which also incorporates Kalabuley Women… make sure to read about it and grab the playlist on his blog.

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Blast from the (not so distant) past! No real reason to post this today, except we’re on our way back to Ghana and Togo, and this brings us back to our last trip to Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo…

(photo by Andrea Bergart)

Too often, when we see the words “African music” in  a major music site, they’re in the same phrase as words like vampire or weekend… not that we don’t encourage experimentation with African music and techniques. But it’s refreshing to see the Chicago powerhouse making room for the music you find in the sidewalk stands they portray in the article, which we highly, highly recommend.

In French only… for now at least… but a lot of the gestures are pretty self-explanatory, so keep practicing!