Here's a handful of funky African cuts. It finally dawned on me, another reason why I love African music. Compared to Western music, it's unpredictable. No familiar chord progressions here, at least not that I can hear. Another thing, you're never quite sure what instrument will be featured. You're just cruising along, listening to very organic sounding grooves and then out of nowhere a synthesizer. Even with that, much of the time it's hard to tell when it was recorded.
These four are great, two of them were unknown to me. Tony Allen happens to be a personal favorite so he's our featured pin-up above. The crazy thing is, these were buried in a funk mix with a bunch of textbook seventies funk, American style. Go figure.
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Listen:Dele Sosimi - E Go Betta mp3 at Internet Archive
Wallias Band - Muziqawi Silt mp3 at Internet Archive
Tony Allen - Cella's Walk mp3 at Internet Archive
Alemayehu Eshete - Tchero Adari Nègn mp3 at Internet Archive
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