Label: Awesome Tapes From Africa - All

Friday Jul 2, 2021

Nahawa Doumbia

Kanawa

This Release marks 40 years of music-making for the singer. Recorded in Bamako with a full traditional-pop ensemble. Album addresses immigration and... more...

LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA039LP

Monday Jul 29, 2019

Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band

Wede Harer Guzo

A lo-fi haze of shimmering, loping funk in melancholic and lyrical modes typical to Ethiopian modernism. more...

LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA021

Wednesday Jun 28, 2017

Dur-Dur Band

Volume 5

A big, versatile group from Mogadishu w/3 horn players, 4 lead singers, 3 backing singers, 2 guitarists, a keyboardist, a drummer, 2 percussionists, &... more...

2LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA004

Monday Jun 22, 2015

Ata Kak

Daa Nyinaa / Bome Nnwom

Ata Kak's legendary tape Obaa Sima introduced one of the greatest left-field dance floor jammers of all time, ''Daa Nyinaa.'' Now available on 12'' si... more...

12inch Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA016

Hailu Mergia & The Walias

Tche Belew

The acclaimed and highly sought-after LP by Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in 1977, is perhaps the most s... more...

LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA012
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Monday Mar 23, 2015

Ata Kak

Obaa Sima

Ata Kak's cassette Obaa Sima fell on deaf ears when it was self-released in Ghana and Canada in 1994. The music on the recording - an amalgam of highl... more...

LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA014LP

Papé Nziengui et son Groupe

Kadi Yombo

Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogh... more...

LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA029LP

Native Soul

Teenage Dreams

In common parlance, the two producers who make up Native Soul would be considered ''ma2000'' - or, born after the onset of democracy, having never exp... more...

2LP Awesome Tapes From Africa: ATFA043LP