Music
The Afromotive, Scare Tactics (Harmonized)
On its debut record, Scare Tactics, the Afromotive takes on the choppy, brass-punctuated style of Afrobeat conceived and perfected by Nigerian band leader Fela Kuti. Technically, the gig qualifies as […]
Gov’t Majik, the Hookah Cafe, July 29, 2007
Like Modal Jazz, opium or both, Afrobeat is a timebender: a release from the rigid tyranny of Clockword, into a more relative—you might even say Einsteinian—soundscape. Songs which would otherwise […]
Bokoor Band, Bokoor Beats (Otrabanda)
Black Africa’s first liberated colony, Gold Coast became Ghana in 1957 and raced away from the confines of history—the rural economy and limited possibilities of colonialism—towards a bold modernity that […]
