Recent Afrobeat Albums
Posted on August 4, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Recent Afrobeat Albums
Some of the best Afrobeat albums out there, available to buy for your listening pleasure:
Serious by Da Lata
Pioneers of rhythm Da Lata bring us their second album titled Serious. A star-studded masterpiece that fuses afrobeat, R&B, broken beats and Brazilian music.
Track listing:
1. Serious – (African Languages, featuring Bembe Segue/Mamani Keita)
2. Breathe
3. Alice (No Pais da Malandragem) – (Portuguese, featuring Pedro Martins)
4. Reeling – (featuring Jhelisa Anderson)
5. Firefly – (Portuguese, featuring Jinko)
6. Distracted Minds – (African Languages, featuring Nina Miranda/Baaba Maal)
7. Something – (featuring Jhelisa Anderson/Nina Miranda)
8. If U Don’t Know
9. Can It Be? – (featuring Courtney Denni)
10. Nuts
Liberation Afro Beat, Vol. 1
Inspired by Fela Kuti, Antibalas are the multi-racial 14-piece Brooklyn collective who are named after the word for “bulletproof” in Spanish. They are not exactly straight Afro Beat revivalists, Liberation Afro Beat Vol. 1 adds New York’s strong musical heritage of funk, jazz and Latin groove on top of Afro Beat’s polyrhythms to amazing effect.
The collection’s incendiary Afro/Latin/American fusion may suggest a party album, but there is a deep motivation to their sound. You can make out the cries of war in “Dirt & Blood” and “World War IV” denounces American foreign policy. This album is a true modern classic.
Track listing:
1. Si, Se Puede
2. Dirt and Blood
3. Battle of the Species
4. N.E.S.T.A (Never Ever Submit to Authority)
5. Musicawi Silt
6. Uprising
7. El Machete
8. World War IV
Afrobeat Down by Lamp of the Body
Afrobeat Music is growing very strong on the West Coast. Listen to heavy rhythms that give you the urge to move.
AfroBeat Down members :
Craig Teigen – Drums, Block, Shekere
Greg Malone – Bass
Matthew Sargis – Guitars, Vocals
Juju Namjai – Shekere, Vocals
David Semien – Guitars
John ‘Fingaz’ Caldwell – Keys, Vocals
Dave Arrollado – Baritone & Tenor Sax, Flute
Charmian Callon – Flute
Mike Battaglia – Trumpet
Rami Raheb – Doumbek
Simon Thomsen – Congas, Percussion
Tom Burbank – Block
“This Album stands alone as one of the few authentic original afrobeat albums in this age of Fela cover bands and Afrobeat-esque ensembles. Gritty and Packed with Power that will move you. True to Fela.”
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