Tagged: Africa
Footnotes: Akwaaba
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. With Benjamin Lebrave’s label, Akwaaba, and his column for TheFADER.com, we don’t have to imagine … read more »
Personal History: Benjamin Lebrave
For the past four years, Benjamin Lebrave has run Akwaaba, a digital record label that releases a huge amount of diverse African music from across the continent. He started the label in San Francisco, but, … read more »
Lungu Lungu: Efya’s Got Soul
In Ghana, to make money, artists need to perform. To perform, artists need a hit. To make a hit, artists need… money, but not necessarily talent. Explaining this last sentence could turn into an essay, … read more »
Stream Tracks from Damon Albarn’s New Album
It only took five days for Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn and the sundry crew of miscellaneous super-producers he assembled—Actress, Dan The Automator, Marc Antoine, Jnerio Jarel and Richard Russell among them—to complete Kinshasa One Two. … read more »
Ghetto Palms 133: Akwaaba / AfroGospel / Jahdan x SoShifty
Where to start with this one? The vertebrae that make up the spinal column of this blend are a couple of 21st century African gospel/spiritual tracks that will probably need a little contextualization for most … read more »
Janka Nabay’s Sabanoh Tape MP3 + Help the Bubu Man
Janka Nabay might be more of a myth than a man. In his homeland of Sierra Leone, there aren’t many who would challenge his self-proclaimed status as “King of Bubu“, he being single-handedly responsible for … read more »
Stream: Akwaaba’s Chop Our Music + ChopChop Supermix MP3
In the last couple of years Benjamin Lebrave of Akwaaba has been living in Africa meeting musicians and cutting deals to get them some dollars, release their music and make it more accessible internationally; in … read more »
Video: The Very Best f. Mo Laudi, “Angonde (Johan Hugo RMX)”
We randomly met Mo Laudi this weekend at our issue release party (starring his friend Spoek Mathambo), but he apparently forgot to tell us that he’s the new MC in The Very Best. Then he … read more »
Premiere: Rwanda’s The Good Ones’ New Dead Oceans Single “Sara”
On a recent trip to Kigali, Rwanda in search of local music, producer Ian Brennan (recently of Kyp Malone’s Rain Machine) happened upon the gents in The Good Ones and quickly proceeded to record the … read more »
Contest: Win a Nike Sportswear x Pitch Perfect South America Poster
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