A Dutch newspaper published an article about African vinyl and the scarcity of it. K.Frimpongs "Blue Album", a very sought after lp is now available on cd and lp again in it's more or less original form. We’re very happy to see African music getting some attention at all, let alone re-releasing hot material from Africa's past.[...]

The 300th Congolese post at the Global Groove. Oh yes my dear visitor, this is wonderful. On 'african' we have this 1974 album by Orchestre Bella-Bella. It is another jewel from Congo's seventies you don't want to miss. Number 360.064 was still absent in our list but today that finally changes. The brothers Soki wrote[...]

What a lot of great bands early seventies in Congo. I am posting the music but am learning just as much as you folks. This collector on african brings us more obscure artists from those days and although I planned to make a move to a different African direction, you convinced me to do another[...]

Last night I did not get through at Mediafire, they were exercising some kind of maintanance. Today when I woke up, everything looked normal again and I was able to upload. They called him Babwire, the leader of this band, but his real name is Fiddey Onwuneme. Another Nigerian Highlife group who made it to[...]

This compilation contains several African styles. Soukous, like 'Tchico' for instance, Chimurenga, 'Four Brothers', #'s 3-5 are from Tanzania, Afro-Cuban by 'Etoile de Dakar ( with young 'Youssou N'Dour' ), Juju with 'King Sunny' Better start dancing already ! tracks; 1 Orchestra Makassi - Mambo Bado 2 The Four Brothers - Rudo Imoto 3 Fadhili[...]

All the Samplers 01 - Shleu-Shleu - Moun d'amou 02 - Michael Prophet - Serious reasoning 03 - Ranking Joe - Dub it in a dance 04 - Cornel Campbell - Please be true 05 - Kanda Bongo Man - Amour fou 06 - Los Caporales del Magdalena - Abarca y corraleja 07 - Aniceto[...]

Until today we only had two records with leading Ghanaian highlife figure Peter Kwabena Yamoah and his Yamoah's Band. More or less five years ago and ten years ago. Being responsible for the discovery of Nana Kwame Ampadu and his African Brothers Band, Yamoah was a highlife pioneer. He founded his band in 1957. Crate[...]

Hij verscheen vorig jaar al eens op deze highlife verzamelplaat met zijn hit Asiko Darling, dit is de eerste keer dat hij hier met een solo project verschijnt. Eddie Donkor speelde jaren lang bij Nana Ampadu's African Brothers Band als ritme gitarist. Uitein- delijk besloot hij het op eigen benen te proberen. Dit album is[...]

Last week one of our loyal visitors pointed me to see that Amazon is making available loads of records taken from my beloved Global Groove. Not only complete albums but also my Global Samplers as well as other of my compilations. A firm called Kipepeo just downloads the files from my website and sells them[...]

Om de originele albums te vinden waarvan deze titels afkomstig zijn, typ de naam van het nummer in onze zoekbalk.. To find the albums of which these songs were extracted, type the title in our search-bar and you'll be there.. tracks ; 01 - Bembeya Jazz National - N'kanuwe 02 - African Brothers International Band[...]

a few days back I've been complaining about the fact some sites use my images and music without mentioning their source. Today I'm coming back on that statement. I myself am the one shouting 'Get it & Spread it' ! Thereby I now realise I also used another's content once or twice without mentioning him/her.[...]

titels ; 01 - Empire Bakuba - Pebi ya pembe 02 - Manuel Caraballo - Recuerdo inolvidable 03 - Nelson Cavaquinho - Juízo final 04 - Lord Kitchener - Marjorie's flirtation 05 - African Brothers International Band - Prodigal lover 06 - Colacho Mendoza - Callate corazon 07 - Shuggie Otis - Ice cold daydream[...]

De sampler van onlangs bracht me in de juiste geestes- toestand om gelijk door te stomen naar de volgende. Hier is nummer 53 alweer en deze vertegenwoordigt plaatjes tot ergens eind 2014. We komen er uiteindelijk vast wel, veel luister- en uitzoekplezier maar weer.. The last sampler had put me in the mood, better use[...]

Het was weer eens tijd. Soms vergeten we het een poosje maar deze samplers zijn een essentieel onderdeel van de Global Groove. Ze helpen je de weg te vinden tussen de reeds 1766 posts alhier. Als bepaalde nummers je bevallen kun je met onze zoekbalk heel snel vinden waar ze vanaf komen. Veel luisterplezier.. It[...]