If you hear a Western DJ playing music from Africa, 99% of the time he/she will either be playing old school afrobeat...
Novidades de Angola
In no particular order, and to help you enjoy your week end, current favorites from the land of Mwangolé:
Angolan Semba vs Brazilian Samba
Hey African music fans! My name is Catherine Barnes, and I'll be contributing a series of articles to this blog on...
11/11 Indepêndencia de Angola
In 1975, Angola became independent from Portugal, months after the fall of Salazar's Estado Novo. Rather than repeat...
Listen to Carlos Lamartine’s Histórias da Casa Velha
10/23 NL: BBRAVE @ Bomb Diggy (Amsterdam)
From our friends at Bomb Diggy's website: By far the baddest, biggest edition of Bomb Diggy will be the Amsterdam...
Super Akwaaba Maquis Mobile
In honor of all the maquis, chop bars and other bass pounding watering holes encountered on his journeys to Africa,...
“What can I say apart from utter fantastic” – Undomundo!
It seems they like Carlos Lamartine's album ;p Who's they? undomondo.com, a very nice blog based in Turkey who feature...
09 /26 LA: BBRAVE @ Create:Fixate
08/18 WW: Carlos Lamartine
To balance out our kuduro release, Akwaaba Sem Transporte, here is a beautiful collection of Carlos Lamartine's...
08/12 LA: Akwaaba on Cosmic Barrio
Derek Rath, host of Cosmic Barrio every Sunday on KPFK, invites Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave to talk about his...
Stacks of Angolan 45s, or what’s left of them…
It's time for an update: We've been in Angola for 2 weeks now, meeting many musicians both old and new, and mesmerized...
Akwaaba meets Carlos Lamartine (Angola)
Akwaaba meets Carlos Lamartine from Akwaaba Music on Vimeo.