My birthday was a few weeks ago, and Denis's was a few days after mine; to mark the occasion, I attempted to put together a mix that exp...

In one of my last posts, I acknowledged that a lot of the Nigerian pop of my youth probably does not travel well (particularly for those who...

Been a while since I threw up any highlife, so here's some Calabar-style dance music fom Isaiah Dickson's Isadico Dance Band to shak...

Lately, a couple of readers have requested to hear some Felix Lebarty and I'll admit that it gave me a moment of pause: Why haven't ...

Yeah... Been a while, y'all... I dunno... It wasn't exactly writer's block or blogger's burnout, but for some reason I just ...

Yes, I said I was going to put those auctions up on Monday. And yet, today is Thursday and there are nowhere to be found. "My bad,...

...next week, that is. Haven't been able to get any new eBay auctions up as I've been so dad-blasted busy. I tried throughout this p...

MsMak requested this song: Mandy - "Breakthrough" but I just decided to throw this one up too, just because: Mandy - "Working...

After writing about Martha Ulaeto yesterday and how her career was jumpstarted by an appearance in Adam Fiberesima's Opu Jaja, it occur...

When I was around nine years old, I nursed a simmering schoolboy crush on Martha Ulaeto, who was a rather popular singer in Calabar. She was...

A little less than two months ago, after I blogged about the funk-rock band Aktion, Ambrose Ehirim informed me that one the band's key m...

In the United States, conventional wisdom regards country & western music as a uniquely American cultural product imbued with inherent n...

Original Wings International- "Stoop to Conquer" A bit of crackle on this one; I just found it in some nether-corner of the crates...

Daniel Viglietti y el Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC - "Construccion" A seminal nueva canción by a Brazilian singer-so...

Omoge in Yoruba translates roughly as "fine girl." It's a very urban word, resonating with style, swagger and even a bit of d...

T-Bones Family were, I believe, an Aba-based group that was active in the 1970s and 80s. The incarnation on this album, Eat the Apple feat...

You remember a while back when I said I was not convinced that the African music-worshiping champeta scene of Colombia was real, as in ...

I think I've isolated what I find so perversely appealing about Stella Monye's singing: it's the overwrought articulation! Anywa...

Earlier today in the comments for the last post, Birdseed enquired about Nigerian synth and electro music and I pledged to get some up soon....

Not a lot of time today, loved ones--just gonna quickly drop this nice little rollerskating groove by Princess Bumy Olajubu, another young f...