Kokolo: Official site of New York City group. Contains news, mp3s, message forums, photos, and links. Kokolo (a name derived from Spanish-Harlem slang used to describe hardcore followers of afro music) formed in may 2001, at a time when the Big Apple's nu afro-beat scene began to take shape ...
Kokolo: Official site of New York City group. Contains news, mp3s, message forums, photos, and links. Kokolo (a name derived from Spanish-Harlem slang used to describe hardcore followers of afro music) formed in may 2001, at a time when the Big Apple's nu afro-beat scene began to take shape ...
Afrobeat music, Afro-Beat album reviews and recommendations by DJ Joe Sixpack.
The "Afro-Beat" sound -- African dance music fused with rock and modern funk -- was pioneered by Nigerian superstar, Fela Kuti, but it soon spread throughout the African continent, with dozens of bands taking up the new style. Many of the best Afro-Beat songs of the 1960s and '70s only came out on cassette tapes or on rare, fragile singles, recordings that seldom were heard outside of their countries of origin ...
BBC World: Afrobeat:
Take the improvisational character of jazz, combine it with the raunchiness of funk, flavour the mixture with African tradition and add a political message to it. What do you end up with? An Afrobeat record!
But where does Afrobeat come from? What's political about this genre and why does it appeal to people in many countries outside Africa? Find out here with the help of our expert guest, some fans and Katrina Leskanich ...
Interviews and text about the movement and the music.