Archives des Genesis - Akwaaba Music - African Music and Pop Culture https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/category/releases/genesis/ African Music and Pop Culture Sun, 10 May 2020 22:33:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-favicon-akwaaba-32x32.png Archives des Genesis - Akwaaba Music - African Music and Pop Culture https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/category/releases/genesis/ 32 32 April 20th… we leave for Ghana, and leave you with reggae+dub https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/april-20th-we-leave-for-ghana-and-leave-you-with-reggaedub/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/april-20th-we-leave-for-ghana-and-leave-you-with-reggaedub/#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:58:36 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2098 We dig Dubian’s weekly radio show Dubearth, and sure enough our new Quebec City homie was down to compile some of the sounds from Jahman Eselem and Eden Roots Liberation‘s albums. Enjoy his tasteful set of roots reggae, perfect for today’s occasion… below are links to listen and download both albums. The right column of […]

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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/april-20th-we-leave-for-ghana-and-leave-you-with-reggaedub/feed/ 0 05/26 WW: Eden Roots Liberation – Genesis https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/0526-ww-eden-roots-liberation-genesis/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/0526-ww-eden-roots-liberation-genesis/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:10:23 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=712 At last! Eden Roots Liberation’s album Genesis comes out this month. The Sierra Leonian duo recorded at Manjul’s Humble Ark studio in Bamako, and the album has only been released in Mali and Sierra Leone. Classic Wailers style African reggae, enjoy! The album is available for download in the iTunes store.

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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/0526-ww-eden-roots-liberation-genesis/feed/ 0 From Freetown to your ears https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/from-freetown-to-your-ears/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/from-freetown-to-your-ears/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:47:53 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=519 I had a chat with Lloyd today, half of Sierra Leonian duo Eden Roots lIberation. We chat about music and how he became a musician. Here are some of his words: “From the very begining, I loved music, in particular reggae music. I was also living with musicians. When I was looking at them playing, […]

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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/from-freetown-to-your-ears/feed/ 0 Eden Roots Liberation https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/eden-roots-liberation/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/eden-roots-liberation/#respond Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:10:47 +0000 http://akwaabam.com/wp/?p=88 Through Bamako’s French Cultural Center I met Lloyd Tommy, half of Eden Roots Liberation. He and his partner Patrick Kousi are originally from Sierra Leone, the met in Freetown in 1990 through Massive Roots Band, a local reggae group. They started touring West Africa playing for Malian reggaeman Askia Modibo in the late 90s before […]

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