{"id":10629,"date":"2004-09-24T08:14:15","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=10629"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","slug":"shiffai-issa-bagayogo-mann-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2004\/09\/24\/shiffai-issa-bagayogo-mann-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffai, Issa Bagayogo, Mann Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

free’n’legal african mp3s are hard to come by, yet it seems like the old analogy with public transport applies here. you wait an age and nothing appears – then three come along at once…
\nSHIFFAI<\/strong>\u00a0[SENEGAL]
\nsavages<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/s>
\nsenegal is shaping up to be home of african hip hop with some solid releases so far from\u00a0positive black soul<\/strong>,\u00a0daara j<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0pee froiss<\/strong>. there’s a site decicated to senegalese hip hop called\u00a0senerap<\/a>\u00a0– i’ve yet to have a full exploration, but it seems to be the perfect place to start our education. through the site, i discovered\u00a0nomadic wax<\/a>, a label who’ve just released a compilation entitled ‘african underground vol. 1: hip-hop senegal’ (available to buy online from november). they’ve also released an album from senegalese hip hop artist\u00a0shiffai<\/strong>\u00a0entitled ‘the chosen one’ which was produced by NY’s\u00a0nomad<\/strong>.\u00a0shiffai<\/strong>\u00a0mixes english and his native wolof language, and there’s undoubtedly some patois thrown in for good measure. any hip hop head will get their kicks from this great mix of traditional and contemporary – the sound of hip hop coming gloriously back to its roots.
\nupdate 260904: nomadic wax are in the process of removing mp3s from their site, and have asked us to link to streams instead –\u00a0head on over the site<\/a>\u00a0to listen to streams from both shiffai and from the forthcoming compilation.<\/span>
\nISSA BAGAYOGO<\/strong>\u00a0[MALI]
\nbana<\/strong>\u00a0direct download mp3<\/a>
\nmuch like senegal, mali also has a strong output of contemporary artists –\u00a0oumou sangare<\/strong>,\u00a0tinariwen<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0rokia traore<\/strong>\u00a0to name a few.\u00a0issa bagayogo<\/strong>\u00a0is part of the roster belonging to san francisco’s\u00a0six degrees<\/a>\u00a0label. six degress have also been responsible for bringing india’s\u00a0karsh kale<\/strong>and\u00a0midival punditz<\/strong>\u00a0to the fore, along with algeria’s excellent\u00a0dj cheb i sabbah<\/strong>.\u00a0issa<\/strong>\u00a0is their first african signing and the above mp3, ‘bana’, has at it’s base a midtempo, dubhouse, four-four shuffle, that fortunately avoids the trappings of afro-house (i’ll confess straight up that ive never been an afro-house fan). this is apparently due to the fact that issa still records in mali, rather than with western producers, thus avoiding the temptation to beef it up for the dancefloor. got to applaud\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0decision! the track is an out-take from his third album ‘tassoumakan’ and does not appear on any commerical release. thanks to six degrees for the link –\u00a0buy the album online here<\/a>.
\nMANN FRIDAY<\/strong>\u00a0[ZIMBABWE]
\ncounting down (sea point mix)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni came across these guys on the\u00a0queep<\/a>\u00a0site (well worth a look for unsigned artists, plus a good mix section featuring\u00a0q-burns abstract message<\/strong>). they’re made up of musicians from zimbabwe, south africa and the u.k. they’ve been touring a show called ‘zimbabwe ruins’ – an audio \/ visual theatre piece that paints a direct picture of this history of their troubled land. according to queep, most of their music wanders into the acoustic ballad territory and – that not being my bag here @ fat planet – i’ve posted a downtempo semi-electronic mix of one of their songs. not sure who’s on production duties, but it’s a solid, laid-back piece that serves the band well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

free’n’legal african mp3s are hard to come by, yet it seems like the old analogy with public transport applies here. you wait an age and nothing appears – then three come along at once… SHIFFAI\u00a0[SENEGAL] savages\u00a0mp3 senegal is shaping up to be home of african hip hop with some solid releases so far from\u00a0positive black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[483,484,445,931,1067,1069,1323,1334,1569],"class_list":["post-10629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-africa","tag-african-underground","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-issa-bagayogo","tag-mali","tag-mann-friday","tag-senegal","tag-shiffai","tag-zimbabwe","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15554,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10629\/revisions\/15554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}