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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Shaka Zulu

Artist: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
CD title: Shaka Zulu
Released date: 1987
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Sub-genre: Isicathamiya
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256-320 Kbit
Channels: 44Khz, stereo
Total size: 48,5 MB
Info: Cover-art included

Tracks:
01. Unomathemba [00:03:48] 4,72 MB
02. Hello My Baby [00:03:09] 4 MB
03. At Golgotha [00:03:56] 4,91 MB
04. King Of Kings [00:04:07] 5,02 MB
05. Lomhlaba Kawunoni (The Earth Never Gets Fat) [00:02:55] 3,62 MB
06. How Long? [00:03:05] 3,73 MB
07. Ikhaya Lamaqhawe (Home Of The Heroes) [00:03:13] 3,91 MB
08. Yibo Labo (These Are The Guys) [00:04:39] 5,75 MB
09. Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain [00:02:18] 2,97 MB
10. Wawusho Kubani? (Who Were You Talking To?) [00:05:32] 7,19 MB


Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Background information
The traditional music sung by Ladysmith Black Mambazo is called ISICATHAMIYA (Is-Cot-A-Me-Ya). It was born in the mines of South Africa. Black workers were taken by rail to work far away from their homes and their families. Poorly housed and paid worse, they would entertain themselves, after a six-day week, by singing songs into the wee hours every Sunday morning. Cothoza Mfana they called themselves, "tip toe guys", referring to the dance steps choreographed so as to not disturb the camp security guards. When miners returned to the homelands, the tradition returned with them. There began a fierce, but social, competition held regularly and a highlight of everyone's social calendar. The winners were awarded a goat for their efforts and, of course, the adoration of their fans. These competitions are held even today in YMCA assembly halls and church basements throughout Zululand South Africa.
The name LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO came about as a result of winning every singing competition in which the group entered. "Ladysmith" is the hometown of the Shabalala family; "Black" references the black oxen, considered to be the strongest on the farm. The Zulu word "Mambazo" refers to an ax - symbolic of the group's ability to "chop down" the competition. So good were they that after a time they were forbidden to enter the competitions but welcomed, of course, to entertain at them.
Their first album release for the United States, "Shaka Zulu", was produced by Simon Garfunkel and won the Grammy Award in 1987 for Best Traditional Folk Recording.

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Zein l’Abdin
The Swahili Songbook

Artist: Zein l’Abdin
CD title: The Swahili Songbook
Released date: 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Sub-Genre: Taarab
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 160 Kbit
Channels: 44Khz, stereo
Total size: 73,8 MB

Tracks:
01. Chombo [00:05:34] 6,37 MB
02. Loho ya Kihindi [00:05:50] 6,68 MB
03. Maneno Tisiya [00:05:34] 6,38 MB
04. Pili-Pili [00:06:34] 7,52 MB
05. Sindano [00:06:05] 6,98 MB
06. Taqsim Rast [00:06:19] 7,24 MB
07. Mnazi Wangu [00:06:07] 7 MB
08. Traje verde de Washy. Solo de laud [00:02:55] 6,79 MB
09. Usitaratambe [00:09:03] 10,3 MB
10. Enyi Ndege [00:07:20] 8,41 MB
11. La Waridi [00:06:00] 6,87 MB

Zein l’Abdin
Background information
Zein l'Abdin was born in 1939 on the Island of Lamu on the northern Kenya coast. His father was a weil-known patron of the arts, himself an accomplished player of the old Swahili lute called kibangala. Zein's father often hosted wealthy merchants arriving from Arabia with the monsoon trade winds. The young Zein witnessed sumptuous feasts and nights of music and dance, when the lute players and musicians accompanying the Arabic crews measured themselves with Ali Baskuta, Zein's maternal uncle, and Lamu's leading 'ud player of the time.
The musical style of Zein and Party is called taarab by the Swahili people of the East African Coast. This is less a stylistic description, since many personal and regional styles exist. Among the Swahili taarab refers to a festive occasion which commonly closes marriage celebrations, and at which this type of music is played.
As with the lyrics, so Zein's music also follows the traditions of the northern coast, by including the rhythms and melodies of many old Swahili ngoma (music-song-dance) events like twari, goma, vugo, together with contemporary dance rhythms like kumbwaya or chakacha.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Two Worlds, One Heart

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Ouganda
Ensembles villageoises du Busoga

Artist: VA
CD title: Ouganda - Ensembles villageoises du Busoga
Released date: 1997
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320 Kbit
Channels: 44Khz, stereo
Total size: 160 MB
Info: Full booklet scans included

Tracks:
01. Otabona Bukaire Nanvu [00:07:17] 16,6 MB
02. Mboine Kirabu [00:03:55] 8,96 MB
03. Osete Tainyuma [00:03:32] 8,09 MB
04. Mperekera Omugeni Owomulembe [00:02:20] 5,34 MB
05. Waiswa Mpola, Mpola [00:07:07] 16,2 MB
06. Dinu/ Mwena Mwena Mudhuge Lero [00:02:49] 6,45 MB
07. Babalema [ 00:4:25] 10,1 MB
08. Agebaale [00:04:03] 9,27 MB
09. Piririya [00:04:39] 10,6 MB
10. Olumbe LW' Amaani [00:06:55] 15,8 MB
11. Okusamira [00:08:24] 19,2 MB
12. Mary Yange Guma Omwoyo [00:02:49] 6,45 MB
13. Baliranie I [00:05:16] 12 MB
14. Baliranie II [00:06:29] 14,8 MB

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Part2:

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Mamadou Diabate
Heritage

Artist: Mamadou Diabate
CD title: Heritage
Released date: 2006
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256-320 Kbit
Channels: 44Khz, stereo
Total size: 85,6 MB
Info: covers included

Tracks:
01. Sara [00:05:10] 7,88 MB
02. Joukouya [00:05:24] 8,15 MB
03. Foulaya [00:06:15] 9,55 MB
04. African Orphans [00:05:27 7,86 MB
05. Waiswa Salimou [00:04:56] 7,23 MB
06. Fali [00:03:55] 5,5 MB
07. Djiribah [00:05:26] 8,3 MB
08. Behni Diayemoko [00:04:25] 6,46 MB
09. Gansana [00:04:23] 6,45 MB
10. Sandra [00:04:22] 6,29 MB
11. Segou Blues [00:04:21] 6,33 MB

Info:
Diabate was born in 1975 in Kita, a Malian city long known as a center for the arts and culture of the Manding people of West Africa. As the name Diabate indicates, Mamadou comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding. Jelis are more than just traditional musicians. They use music and sometimes oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, a past that stretches back to the 13th century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the vast Empire of Mali, covering much of West Africa. The stories of these glory days and the times since remain important touchstones for people today, not only for the Manding, but for many citizens of Mali, Guinea, Gambia, and Senegal. So to be born to a distinguished jeli family in Kita is already an auspicious beginning.

Mamadou's father Djelimory played the kora, the jeli's venerable 21-string harp. He was widely known as N'fa Diabate, performing in the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali and recording on the National Radio of Mali. At the age of four, Mamadou went to live with his father in Bamako, where the Ensemble was based. When it came time for him to return to Kita and go to school, Mamadou knew that the kora was his destiny. His father had taught him how to play the instrument, and from there he listened and watched and devoted himself to practicing the kora, to the point that his mother worried that he was not concentrating enough on school. When she took it away, it only reduced his interest in studying, and he quickly resorted to making his own kora so he could continue.

Before long, Mamadou left school and began playing kora for local jeli singers, and traveling throughout the region to play at the ceremonies where modern jelis ply their trade, mostly weddings and baptisms. When he was fifteen, Mamadou won first prize for his kora playing in a regional competition and instantly became something of a local celebrity. The next year, he went to Bamako, and under the tutelage of his famous kora playing cousin, Toumani Diabate, he worked the jeli circuit, backing singers at neighborhood weddings and baptisms and entertaining the powerful at the city's posh Amitié Hotel. Toumani gave his cousin the nickname "Djelika Djan" meaning "Tall Griot," a reference to Mamadou's impressive physical stature. The name has stuck.

In 1996, a touring group from the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali offered Mamadou the chance to travel to the United States with a group of Manding musicians and cultural authorities. Following a successful tour, Mamadou decided to continue his work in the United States and, since then, he's made his home in and around New York. Mamadou gets frequent invitations to perform with visiting Malian stars including Ami Koita, Tata Bambo Kouyate, Kandia Kouyate, and Babani Koné. He has performed at the United Nations, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. In addition, he's delved into uncharted waters, jamming with all manner of expert musicians, including jazz luminaries Donald Byrd and Randy Weston, Zimbabwean legend Thomas Mapfumo, and blues masters Eric Bibb and Guy Davis. Mamadou's recording credits have expanded as he has laid tracks with artists ranging from Irish soloist Susan McKeown, jazz bassist Ben Allison, and Benin's celebrated Angélique Kidjo.

Mamadou teaching kora to his son, Djelimory Mamadou says that his father advised him to listen to all the best kora players and to learn from each one. The kora itself came to Mali from Gabu, the region centered between Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau, and the Malian kora tradition has always put a premium on holding onto the old ways while constantly innovating and developing the art.

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Tinariwen
The Radio Tisdas Sessions [2000]

Artist: Tinariwen
CD title: The Radio Tisdas Sessions
Released date: 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 252 Kbit
Duration: 00:52:04
Total size: 94,7 MB
Info: covers included

Tracks:
01. Le Chant Des Fauves [00:07:32] 13,7 MB
02. Nar Djenetbouba [00:04:46] 8,69 MB
03. Imidiwaren [00:06:26] 11,7 MB
04. Zin Es Gourmeden [00:05:22] 9,77 MB
05. Afours Afours [00:05:27] 9,91 MB
06. Tessalit [00:03:58] 7,21 MB
07. Khedou Khedou [00:06:12] 11,3 MB
08. Mataraden Anexan [00:05:47] 10,5 MB
09. Bismillah [00:04:22] 7,93 MB
10. Tin-Essako [Live] [00:02:08] 3,91 MB

Info:
Tinariwen is a band formed in 1982 in Moammar al-Qadhafi's camps of Touareg rebels. They play in the Tishoumaren ("music of the unemployed") style, and sing mostly in the French and Tamashek languages. Their songs mostly cover the subject of independence for their people from the government of Mali. They are said to be the first Tuareg band to use electric guitars.
Having recorded many albums available on cassette over their eighteen years, the group recorded their first album for the CD format in December of 2000; the album was known as The Radio Tisdas Sessions and was their first recording available outside of Africa.
The Western world first took great notice of Tinariwen due to their performance at Le Festival au Désert, a musical festival held in Tin-Essako, Mali, a remote region of the Sahara Desert, in January of 2001.
The band released a second album, Amassakoul ("Traveller") in 2004, and played concerts in Europe (where they performed one of the highlights of the 2004 Womad Reading ) and the United States to support the album.
Tinariwen's new album entitled Aman Iman, meaning "Water is Life", was released in February 2007. A 52 minute documentary called Teshumara, or the guitars of the revolution recently played in movie theaters in Europe. It tells the history of the Tuareg rebellion and the role played by Tinariwen in this struggle for freedom. Combined with Amassakoul, it's been released as the CD/DVD combo The Soul Rebel Of African Desert.

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inariwen
Aman Iman (Water is Life)

Artist: Tinariwen
CD title: Aman Iman
Release date: 2007
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: African Rock
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256 Kbit
Duration: 00:54:18
Total size: 99,3 MB

Tracks:
01. Cler Achel [00:04:27] 8,15 MB
02. Mano Dayak [00:05:43] 10,4 MB
03. Matadjem Yinmixan [00:05:45] 10,5 MB
04. Ahimana [00:04:58] 9,1 MB
05. Soixante Trois [00:04:13] 7,73 MB
06. Toumast [00:04:26] 8,13 MB
07. Imidiwan Winakalin [00:04:27] 8,15 MB
08. Awa Didjen [00:04:14] 7,75 MB
09. Ikyadarh Dim [00:03:37] 6,63 MB
10. Tamatant Tilay [00:03:21] 6,13 MB
11. Assouf [00:03:58] 7,27 MB
12. Izarharh Tenere [00:05:04] 9,29 MB

Info:
Tinariwen is a band formed in 1982 in Moammar al-Qadhafi's camps of Touareg rebels. They play in the Tishoumaren ("music of the unemployed") style, and sing mostly in the French and Tamashek languages. Their songs mostly cover the subject of independence for their people from the government of Mali. They are said to be the first Tuareg band to use electric guitars.
Having recorded many albums available on cassette over their eighteen years, the group recorded their first album for the CD format in December of 2000; the album was known as The Radio Tisdas Sessions and was their first recording available outside of Africa.
The Western world first took great notice of Tinariwen due to their performance at Le Festival au Désert, a musical festival held in Tin-Essako, Mali, a remote region of the Sahara Desert, in January of 2001.
The band released a second album, Amassakoul ("Traveller") in 2004, and played concerts in Europe (where they performed one of the highlights of the 2004 Womad Reading ) and the United States to support the album.
Tinariwen's new album entitled Aman Iman, meaning "Water is Life", was released in February 2007. A 52 minute documentary called Teshumara, or the guitars of the revolution recently played in movie theaters in Europe. It tells the history of the Tuareg rebellion and the role played by Tinariwen in this struggle for freedom. Combined with Amassakoul, it's been released as the CD/DVD combo The Soul Rebel Of African Desert.


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Ladysmith Black Mambazo nandritra ny fampisehoana Graceland tany amin’ny kianja malalak’i Rufaro, Harare, Zimbaboe [tsy afaka notanterahina tany Afrika Atsimo noho ny lalàna mandrara ny mainty sy fotsy tsy hifangaro], miara-mihira ny Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika amin’i Paul Simon sy Miriam Makeba [akanjo mainty] ary i Hugh Masakela [trompetra], taona 1987.


Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Classic Xhosa Version

The first verse and chorus of this version are the original words composed by Sontonga in 1897. The remaining verses were added in 1927 by Samuel E Mqhayi.

Nkosi, sikelel' iAfrika;
Malupakam'upondo lwayo;
Yiva imitandazo yetu
Usisikelele.
Chorus
Yihla Moya, Yihla Moya,
Yihla Moya Oyingcwele
Sikelela iNkosi zetu;
Zimkumbule umDali wazo;
Zimoyike zezimhlonele,
Azisikelele.
Sikelel' amadod' esizwe,
Sikelela kwa nomlisela
Ulitwal'ilizwe ngomonde,
Uwusikelele.
Sikelel'amakosikazi;
Nawo onk'amanenekazi;
Pakamisa wonk'umtinjana
Uwusikelele.
Sikelela abafundisi
Bemvaba zonke zelilizwe;
Ubatwese ngoMoya Wako
Ubasikelele.
Sikelel'ulimo nemfuyo;
Gxota zonk'indlala nezifo;
Zalisa ilizwe ngempilo
Ulisikelele
Sikelel'amalinge etu
Awomanyano nokuzaka,
Awemfundo nemvisiswano
Uwasikelele.
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika;
Cima bonk' ubugwenxa bayo
Nezigqito, nezono zayo
Uyisikelele.
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Tinariwen
Amassakoul [2004]

Artist: Tinariwen
CD title: Amassakoul
Release date: 2004
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: African rock
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 128 Kbit
Duration: 45,55
Total size: 42 MB

Tracks:
01 - Amassakoul 'N'Ténéré [00:03:24] 3,10 MB
02 - Tinariwen - Oualahila Ar Teninam [00:03:47] 3,47 MB
03 - Tinariwen – Chatma [00:05:36] 5,12 MB
04 - Tinariwen – Arawan [00:04:06] 3,76 MB
05 - Chet Boghassa [00:03:52] 3,54 MB
06 - Tinariwen – Amidinin [00:02:51] 2,61 MB
07 - Tinariwen - Ténéré Daféo Nikchan [00:04:51] 4,43 MB
08 - Tinariwen - Aldhechen Manin [00:03:54] 3,57 MB
09 - Tinariwen - Alkhar Dessouf [00:04:55] 4,49 MB
10 - Tinariwen - Eh Massina Sintadoben [00:04:29] 4,1 MB
11 - Tinariwen – Assoul [00:04:06] 3,75 MB

Background information:
Tinariwen strip rock down to its basic building blocks of rhythm, guitars, and voice. On their second CD there are no fancy studio tricks or multiple overdubs. They stick to what they've shown they do well -- keep the music raw and emotional. While there are similarities to the desert blues of Mali, these Tuareg nomads from the Western Sahara are as much as rock band as the Stones at their best, capable of conjuring up magic with a guitar riff or lick. Oftentimes, the music has the same bluesy, undulating, hypnotic rhythm of a camel crossing the sand, as on "Aldhechen Manin." But they can also crank the amps and unleash something to tingle the spine and feet, which they do on "Oualahila Ar Tesninam," as frantic and primal a piece of rock & roll as you're likely to find. There's even a touch of rap on "Arawan." But there's a complexity in their basic approach, the interlocking layers of electric guitars and the plaintive, defiant voices. To listen to Tinariwen is to believe once more in rock and its power. This is angry and passionate; it's dangerous music in the very best sense. Western bands might have forgotten how to rock as if their lives depended on it; Tinariwen can teach them. (AMG)

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Mamadou Diabate
Behmanka

Artist: Mamadou Diabate
CD title: Behmanka
Release date: 2004
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ethnic
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320 Kbit
Time: 00:49:14
Total size: 78 MB
Info: covers included

Tracks:
01. Touma [00:05:44] 8,85 MB
02. Jamanadiera [00:06:16] 9,92 MB
03. Behmankha [00:05:48] 9,02 MB
04. Koraboloba [00:09:42] 15,8 MB
05. Kita baro [00:05:12] 8:25 MB
06. Jarrabeekele [00:05:15] 8,2 MB
07. Sansenefoly [00:04:35] 7,23 MB
08. Djimbaseh [00:06:37] 10,6 MB

Info:
Mamadou Diabate is a master of the kora, the ancient 21-string West African harp. He was born in Kita, Mali, a city long known as a center for the arts and culture of the Manding people of West Africa. As his last name indicates, he comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding, who are traditional historians, genealogists, and story-tellers as well as musicians.

Mamadou’s father taught him to play the kora as a child, and from there he listened and watched, and devoted himself to practicing the instrument. Before long, Mamadou was playing kora for local jeli singers throughout the region at ceremonies such as weddings and baptisms. At sixteen he went to Bamako, where under the tutelage of his famous cousin, Toumani Diabate, he worked the jeli circuit and entertained the powerful at the city's posh Amitié Hotel.

After touring the US in 1996 as part of the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali, Mamadou decided to stay in the US and now calls it home. He performs nationally and internationally as a soloist, as well as leading the Mamadou Diabate Ensemble, which includes himself on kora, Balla Kouyate on balafon, Baye Kouyate on talking drum and calabash, and Noah Jarrett on bass.

Mamadou Diabate has collaborated broadly with jazz musicians from Donald Byrd to Randy Weston, as well as popular figures from Afropop star Angelique Kidjo and Zimbabwean legend Thomas Mapfumo to blues mavericks Taj Mahal and Eric Bibb, and even the jam band Donna the Buffalo. He gets frequent invitations to perform with visiting Malian stars including grand divas such as Ami Koita, Tata Bambo Kouyate, Kandia Kouyate, and Babani Koné.

Since 2000, Mamadou Diabate has released three CDs, one of which, Behmanka (World Village), was nominated for a Grammy in 2005.

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