Steve Mugiri

Casa Ntwiga is enjoying a Franco Luambo Makiadi revival thanks to the new must-absolutely-read-but-impossible-to-comment-on blog Franco et. TPOK Jazz Restored.

To get you on your way, here is 16 minutes 55 seconds of stupefying, posted before, but now enjoying almost non-stop airplay here. This diversion, for those of you who may have missed it, is also definitely worth taking the time to read.

 Franco Luambo Makiadi & TP OK Jazz - Tres impoli

AOB:
Makmende, from Just a Band, for those of you, whom again, may have missed it.

Makmende is on CNN later today, make a point of watching… ( Read on! )

Aside from running this blog, I do a couple of other things that I find interesting. One of these is writing for a blog named AfriGadget with Paula, Frerieke, Hash, Afromusing, and JKE, a group of 5 very interesting, very cool people.

The focus of the blog is ingenious applications of technology in Africa - we think that the stuff that we see and take for granted everyday around us is actually quite profound and interesting and we have found that there are others that agree including Time Magazine who named us one of the 50 best websites of 2008.

Last month I had an opportunity to give a… ( Read on! )

I have been sitting on this particular post for almost 3 years now but it is time to let it have its moment in the sun. Here is a sound check by Malage, Shiko and Soukous Stars before a performance that they gave in New Jersey almost 4 years ago now. The recording was done by Scott Shuster who has a YouTube channel filled with gems like this. You can tell a man is prepared when he has an audio line running to his recording, the audio is 100% completely clean, no way he could have picked it up with his camera, he had to have a line to the board …

Is is only me who would actually pay money… ( Read on! )

Les Mangelepa was a splinter group from Baba Gaston Ilunga Wa Ilunga’s Baba National. I came to know band members of Mangelepa when they briefly lived as our neighbours at Golf Course Estates in Nairobi. They always sounded as if they were quarreling amongst themselves, but the moment they start singing, it was pure joy to hear them. And, whenever Les Mangelepa composed a song, they also invented a dance to go with that song - at least up to and including their Malawi Zikomo LP. Rumours had it that some influential residents complained that they were making too much noise. Eventually they… ( Read on! )

Hey good people

A bounty awaits anyone who can do all of the following
- let me know the name of this track
- link me to anywhere on these inter-tubes where I can buy it

I know that the track is by TKZee and I know that it is in the both the intro and outro (that’s how good it is!) to the video of their new single Sdudla that you can find here but aside from that I know nothing.

TKZee - Like a pantsula??

Here is the track that the snippet comes from - TKZee’s newest single Sdudla.

An update

The track is named “Viva la pantsula” and it is from their new CD. The single is featured in a… ( Read on! )