Awesome Tapes From Africa, the long-running blog, turned into a record label late last year with the release of Mali’s Na Hawa Doumbia‘s La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3. Awesome Tapes’ second release is due … read more »

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. Jerry Garcia - "The Wheel" - Garcia (Warner Bros.) 2. Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers - "New Year's Eve" - Heroin (Orthlong Musork) 3. Asuna - "Holland Garden" - Flowers (music related) 4. Sekeha Gamelan - "Group Of Gending Guna Saih Sondong" - The Best 4 In 1 Gamelan From Eastern Of Bali (Maharani) [(with ticking clock)] 5. Nâ Hawa Doumbia - "Kungo Sogoni" - La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 3 (AS) 6. The Pipe Dream - "January Girl" - Soft Sounds for Gentle People, v. 3 (Pet) 7. Frank Pahl & Klimperei - "Melon Sorbet" - Music For Desserts (In-Poly-Sons) 8. Yung Wu - "Return To Zion" - Shore Leave ...

More short reviews by me, of albums by Na Hawa Doumbia, Minamo, The Living Room, Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson, and Ravalico/Khroustaliov. Read them over at The Liminal.

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. Ursula Bogner - "Sonne = Blackbox 1972" - Sonne = Blackbox (Faitiche) 2. patrice moullet - "Alchimie Rythmique" - Chronoradial (Omni Recording Corp.) 3. Tom Waits - "Back In The Crowd" - Bad As Me (Anti) 4. Lambchop - "If Not, I'll Just Die" - Mr. M (Merge) 5. The Tower Recordings - "Delmak-O" - Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles (Stiltbreeze) 6. Susan Pillsbury - "It's Hard To Be Easy" - Susan Pillsbury (Sunbeam) 7. The Mandrake Memorial - "This Can't Be Real" - The Mandrake Memorial (Collectables) 8. John Villemonte - "I Am The Moonlight" - People Like You (Sebastian Speaks) 9. These Trails - "Hello Lou" - These Trails ...

I'm no minimalism expert, but know when it when I hear it. Daniel Blumin played "Kungo Sogoni" by N. Hawa Doumbi. Listen to how the track feeds off a repetitive instrumental motif. Steve Reich, played on Mudd Up! With DJ/Rupture,...

Music from Crooked Fingers, Cave, Na Hawa Doumbia, Barn Owl and Jane’s Addiction.

Listen to the song “Kungo Sogoni” from Nâ Hawa Doumbia off the inagural Awesome Tapes From Africa release La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3

Awesome Tapes From Africa started exactly six years ago out of Brian Shimkovitz’ bedroom. He’d recently returned from his second long period of living in Ghana and, a lover of both music and strange shit, … read more »

Here's a track to celebrate the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog's transition into a record label! Brian Shimkovitz, Awesome Tapes creator, plans on reissuing some of his favorite tapes on LP, CD, and MP3 format with 50% of all profits going to the artist. According to him: The first release is by Mali's Nâ Hawa Doumbia, a recording the singer made in 1982, La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3 . It comes out October 18 and will be distributed by SC Distribution . It's easy to separate ourselves from rare or obscure releases, especially when it comes to ...

Artist: Nâ Hawa Doumbia EP: La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 3 Release Date: October 18 Label: Awesome Tapes From Africa

It’s the start of Memorial Day weekend ninjas! What better way to kick off the first official weekend of summer than with a breezy, sunny, yet completely reimagined version of Justice‘s signature song D.A.N.C.E. Though D.A.N.C.E. has been remixed by almost every DJ under the sun, England’s Hawa gives this song a pleasant breath of [...]

First single extracted from "My Little Green Box" album, released June 6th on LP, CD & Digital by Favorite Recordings. Directed by "Les Lapins de L'Espace".

After a number of solid singles over the last few years, Mr. President (aka Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart has released a full-length album titled Number One . The funky soulful record includes many of the singles he's released over last few years including " Meet Again ", " The Best Is Yet To Come ", " Love & Happiness " as well as a slew full of new funky cuts like " From South to North ", " Tribute to RZA ", " Left & Right ", " Get it Sometime " and many others. The album features a number of great vocalists including Mr. Day , Hawa , JRMNM , and Mounam . The whole album has a solid vintage ...

Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, by flykr It's been awhile since the last Late Nite Lounge post, and to bring it back I want to share with you what I consider to be some of the finest music made on the African continent: Malian music. I don't know what it is about those arid Sahel lands that produce such melodious, absolutely beautiful music. Late at night when I'm in the mood to have my eardrums caressed, I invariably put on Ali Farka Touré's albums, of any period. But among his best work is the album ...

Also wanted to share "Meet Again".