African Music Recordings

General

Adam coly / 4 Etoiles. CD 06919
Africa / Miriam Makeba. CD 10597
Africa east and west. LAfro-Cuba : a musical anthology. CD 01919
Africa - praise I. M2143 .A37 1996 disc
Azucar / Juan Formell and Los Van Van. CD 05806P 363
Africa worldwide :35th anniversary album /Tabu Ley Rochereau et L'Orchestra Afrisa International. CD 05879
African music / recording in Africa by Laura Boulton. LP 1797
The African Music Society's choice - Osborn Award, part II. LP 13374
The African roots of jazz / by Fredrick Kaufman and John P. Guckin. LP 5919
Animals of Africa : sounds of the jungle, plain & bush. CD 10381
Afrika Moyo : African heartbeat. CD 06921
An anthology of African music. LP 570 v.2
Black ivory soul / Angelique Kidjo. CD 09943
Desert blues: ambiances du Sahara. CD 06582 OVERSIZE
Feet on fire / Samba Mapangala and Virunga. CD 06927
"Folon"...the past / Salif Keita. CD 05829
Franco et Le Tout Puissant O.K. Jazz. CD 06934
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley : the warrior of Afrikan music. CD 06929
Liberation afro beat. vol. 1 / Antibalas' Afrobeat Orchestra. CD 10309
Maria Tebbo / Sam Mangwana. CD 06933
Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri rainforest / recorded by Colin Turnbull and Francis S. Chapman. CD 06437
Missa luba. CD 03182
Music from the roadside, no. 1. LP 14488
Music of Mali. LP 8400
Musical instruments 1 : Strings / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14480
Musical instruments 2 : Reeds (Mbira) / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14479
Musical instruments 3 : Drums / [recorded] by Hugh Tracey. LP 14478
Musiques du pays Lobi. LP 3749
Osborn awards 1958. LP 14471
Putumayo Presents: An Afro-Portugese Odyssey. CD 10750
Reggae Africa. CD 10944
Safarini : music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
Sangonini / 4 Etoiles. CD 05683
Songs of the Watutsi. LP 15196
Soukous in Central Park / Kanda Bongo Man. CD 05814
Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601
Stand / Bu-Baca Diop. CD 06939
Tanganyika I. LP 14482
The Toure Kunda collection. CD 9197
The very best of Manu Dibango : Afrosouljazz. CD 10592

Central Africa

Anthologie de la musique des Pygmees Aka (Empire Centrafricain). LP 3731
Central African Republic . CD 05453
Echoes of the forest : music of the Central African Pygmies. CD 05507 [MBUTI PEOPLE]
Music of Equatorial Africa. LP 1896
Musique centrafricaine. LP 3751
On the edge of the Ituri forest : northeastern Belgian Cong, 1952. CD 08191
Primitive Music of Africa / recorded on location by the Denis-Roosevelt Expedition. LP 8403 [MBUTI PEOPLE]
Pygmées Aka : Centrafique. CD 07485
Rondes et jeux chantés banda-linda (centrafrique). LP 4445 [BANDA PEOPLE]

Eastern Africa

East Africa : ceremonial& folk music. CD 10376
East Africa [sound recording] : witchcraft & ritual music. CD 10375
Escalay : the water wheel; oud music from Nubia. LP 5401

North Africa

Absolute Rai. CD 10555
Berbères di Maroc : ahwach. / Lortat-Jacob, Bernard. LP 4438
Essence Ordinaire / Zebda. CD 10711
Music of Islam. CD 10821 v.1, 3-15
N'ssi n'ssi / Khaled Hadj Brahim. CD 05698
Rai : music rough guide. CD 10570

West Africa

Africa: drum, chant & instrumental music. LP 5380
African rhythms and instruments. Vol. 1. CD 06880.
Dance suites from West Africa. CalArts African Ensemble. LP 12219
Gabon: musique des Pygmées Bibayak. LP 3739 [BAKA PEOPLE]
Gabon: musique des Pygmées Bibayak : chantres de l'apopee. CD 00139 [BAKA PEOPLE]
Jali Kunda : Griots of West Africa & beyond. CD 06993
Mandinka kora, Gambie. LP 3746 [MANDINGO PEOPLE]
Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
Musiques du monde : les instruments traditionnels / réalisation, G. Dournon et J. Schwarz. LP. 4437
Musiques du pays Lobi. LP 3749
Primitive music of the world.[1962] / Henry Cowell. LP 3327
Roots of Black music in America. LP 819
Savannah rythms : music of Upper Volta. LP 5089
Songs of the griots. II / Sunjui Cissoko and Marhawa Kouyate. CD 05560 [MANDINGO PEOPLE]
Sounds of West Africa : the kora and the xylophone. CD 05781
Watto sitta / [performed by] Mandingo. CD 10581
West Africa : drum, chant & instrumental music. CD 10374

Afrikaans

Missa luba : an African mass, 10 Kenyan folk melodies. CD 03182

Africa: Alphabetical by Country

Algeria

Best of the Early Years / Khaled. CD 10794
Kenza / Khaled. CD 10573
Meli meli / Cheb Mami. CD 10575
Moroccan & Algerian Rai : the gold collection. CD 10572
Music of Islam, 1 [-3]. LP 6961 v.1 Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
Pop Rai and Rachid style. CD 10464

Angola

Adventures in Afropea 3 : Afro-Portugal telling stories to the sea. CD 05926

Benin

Yoruba drums from Benin, West Africa. CD 05679

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso : rhythms of the grasslands. CD 10370
Burkina Faso : Savannah rhythms. CD 10371
Bolomakote / Farafina. CD 10598

Burundi

Burundi; music from the heart of Africa. LP 5419
Burundi : music from the heart of Africa. CD 10377
Burundi: musiques traditionnelles. L P 3736

Cameroon

Afrijazzy / Manu Dibango. CD 10834
Bikutsi rock / Les Tetes Brulees. CD 05756
Danses et chants Bamoun. LP 15203
Heart of the forest : Baka forest people of southeast Cameroon. CD 05694
Music of the Cameroons. LP 3323
Music of the Cameroons. : the Fulani of the North / recorded by Veit Erlmann. LP 15192
Musiques du Cameroun. LP 3744
Spirit of the forest: Baka beyond / [Martin Cradick]. CD 06511

Canary Islands

"Guanche"/ los Sabandeños. LP 3769

Cape Verde

Cap-Vert : un archipel de musiques. CD 08183 OVERSIZE
Cesaria Evora / Cesaria Evora. CD 05818
Adventures in Afropea : Afro-Portugal telling stories to the sea. CD 05926
Le violon deu Cap Vert / Antoninho Travadinha. CD 05769

Central African Republic

Anthologie de la musique des Pygmees Aka (Empire Centrafricain). LP 3731
Banda polyphony. CD 05775
Central African Republic : music of the Dendi, Nzakara, Banda Linda, Gbaya, Banda-dakpa, Ngbaka, Aka Pygmies =Republique centraficaine. CD 05453
Empire Centrafricain : Musique Gbaya : Chants à penser . LP 3732
Pygmées. LP 4443 v.2

Chad

One Step Forward / Les Nubians. CD 10663

Congo

African concert. LP 2040
Music of the rainforest pygmies. CD 10601
Sam Mangwana sings Dino Vangu. CD 09934

Egypt

Oum Kalthoum = El sett = (La dame = The lady). CD 10571

Ethiopia

Ethiopia : the harp of Apollo : songs accompanied by the kirar. CD 05612
Musiques ethiopiennes. LP 3752

Gabon

Gabon : musique des Pygmées Bibayak. LP 3739
Gabon: chantres du quotidien. LP 3733
Musiques des Mitsogho et des Batéké. LP 4080

Gambia

Kora Manding : Mandinka music of the Gambia. LP 18278
Tabara / Amadu Bansang Jobarteh. CD 05825
Senegal & Gambia. CD 10568
Traditional kora music from Gambia / Papa Susso. CD 10441
Watto sitta / [performed by] Mandingo. CD 10581

Ghana

Africa east and west. LP 363
Drum gahu : good-time drumming from the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. CD 05777
Folk music of Ghana. LP 8401
Ghana : ancient ceremonies : dance music & songs. CD 10372
Ghana : voices of Africa : high-life, popular music / Saka Acquaye and his African ensemble. CD 10380
Let me play my drums / Obo Addy & Kukrudu. CD 06399
Let your voice be heard! : songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe. M 1830 .L47 1986 cass.
Master fiddlers of Dagbon. CD 9372
Mustapha Tettey Addy : master drummer from Ghana / Mustapha Tettey Addy. CD 05456
Okropong: traditional music of Ghana / Obo Addy. CD 06442
Rhythms of life, songs of wisdom : Akan music from Ghana, West Africa. CD 05783
The rhythm of which a chief walks gracefully / Obo Addy. CD 06400
Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
Xylophone music from Ghana. CD 04906

Guinea

Ballet africains / Papa Ladji Camara. CD 05788
Bembeya Jazz National. CD 06924
Diamond fingers / Sekou Bembeya Diabate. CD 06925
Girls of Guinea / Sona Diabate. CD 05782
Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
Recits et epopees. CD 05833

Ivory Coast

Adama Drame : djembe drum / Adama Drame. CD 05838
The Best of Alpha Blondy. CD 10937
Black System / Ismael Isaac. CD 10938
Cape of Good Dope. CD 10852
Cocody Rock!!! / Alpha Blondy. CD 10829
Jerusalem / Alpha Blondy. CD 10939
Ivoire Parade / Hamed Farras. CD 10853
Le proces / Zo Gang International. CD 10849
Le roi de Ziglibithy / Ernesto Djedje. CD 10826
Music and dances of Occidental Africa. LP 11965
Musique Baoulé-Kodè. LP 3743 [BAOULE PEOPLE]
Musique gouro de Cote d'Ivoire. LP 3750
Masques dan. LP 3748
Zouglou Feeling. CD 10851

Kenya

Africa: ceremonial & folk music. LP 5376
Africa: Witchcraft & ritual music. LP 5349
Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601

Madagascar

The long way home / Dama & D'Gary. CD 06942
Madagascar : awakening the spirits : music in tromba and bilo trance rituals. CD 06272
Tibet, Cambodia, Madagascar, Laos, Bali 1-2, Tahiti. LP 16085

Mali

Africa: drum, chant & instrumental music. LP 5380
Baro / Habib Koitâe & Bamada. CD 10425
Duga / Lobi Traore. CD 10582
Djelika / Toumani Diabate, Keletigui Diabate, and Basekou Kouyate. CD 05831
Les Dogon : musique des masques et des funerailles. CD 8099
Kar kar / Boubacar Traore. CD 10583
Mali lolo! / Stars of Mali. CD 10831
Ma ya / Habib Koitâe & Bamada.CD 10426
Mississippi to Mali / Corey Harris. CD 10860.
Moffou / Salíf Keita. CD 10528
Moussolou / Omare Sangare. CD 10827
Niafunkâe / Ali Farka Toure. CD 10590
The river [sound recording] / Ali Farka Toure. CD 10560
Moussolou / Oumou Sangare. CD 10827
Soro / Salif Keita. CD 10530
The source / Ali Farka Toure. CD 05765
Talking Timbuktu . CD 05052
Wass Reggae / Askia Modibo. CD 10943
The Wassoulou Sound: Women of Mali. CD 10843
Worotan / Oumou Sangare. CD 10830

Mauritania

Musique traditionnelle des Griots Maures (Mauritanie). LP 4433

Morocco

La daqqa : tambours sacres de marrakech = sacred drums from Marrakesh. CD 8075
Moroccan & Algerian Rai : the gold collection. CD 10572
Moroccan Sufi music : Islamic mystical brotherhoods. LP 16101
Morocco: crossroads of time. CD 05815
The music of Islam. CD 8112
Music of Morocco. LP 8467
Sacred music of the Moroccan Jews. CD 08346
Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
Trance 2 : Naqshbandi Sufis, healing and trance in Morocco, Balines trance ritual. CD06200

Mozambique

Marrabenta Mozambique. CD 10195

Nigeria

Army arrangement / Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt '80. CD 06879
Atide / JJC & 419 Squad. CD 10820
Beasts of no nation / Fela. CD 05096
The best best of Fela Kuta / Fela Kuta. CD 8178
Black man's cry / Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. CD 05461
Coffin for the head of state/Unknown soldier / Fela. CD 8172
Confusion/ Gentlemen / Fela Ransome Kuti & the Afrika 70. CD 8176
E dide = get up / King Sunny Ade. CD 05837
Expensive shit/He miss road / Fela Ransome-Kuti & the Africa 70. CD 8171
Homecooking / Tony Allen. CD 10832
Juju master / I.K. Dairo. CD 5823
Juju roots : 1930s-1950s CD 6422
Music is the weapon of the future / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 0169
Music is the weapon of the future vol. 2 / Fela. CD 08170
Music of many colours / Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Roy Ayers. CD 06363
Musiques du Nigeria central. LP 3740
Musiques du plateau, Nigéria. / Enregistrements réalisés par Benoit Quersin. LP 3741
Red hot + riot / Fela. CD 10590
ODOO / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 05095
Opposite people/Sorrow tears and blood / Fela and Afrika 70. CD 08175
Original sufferhead / Fela. CD 05094
Shakara/London scene / Fela Kuti. CD 8180
Shuffering and shmiling : No agreement / Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Afrika 70. CD 08177
Sound time / Osita Osadebe and his Nigerian soundmakers. CD 9669
Stalemate : Fear not for man. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the Afrika 70
Underground system / Fela Anikulapo Kuti. CD 05721
Up side down / Fela Anikulapo Kuti & the Africa 70. CD 06232
V.I.P./Authority stealing / Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrika 70. CD 8174
Yellow fever/Na poi / Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa '70. CD 8179
Yusef Lateef in Nigeria . LP 10445
Zombie / Fela and Afrika 70. CD 06448

Rhodesia

Africa: Shona mbira music. LP 2534 [MASHONA]
Halimba & Halumbu songs, Northern Rhodesia, 1952 & 1957; Zambia, historical recordings. CD 08551
Rhodesia. LP 436
The soul of mbira [traditions of the Shona people of Rhodesia.] LP 5418 [MASHONA]
Southern Rhodesia (1). LP 14481

Rwanda

At the court of the Mwami, Ruanda, 1952. CD 08189
Primitive Music of Africa. LP 8403

Senegal

Baayo [sound recording] / Baaba Maal. CD 10557
Gainde: music from the heart of Africa / Yande Codou Sene and Youssou N. Dour. CD 05826
The guide / Wommat. CD 6433
Joko / Youssou N'Dour. CD 09326
Missing you [sound recording] = (mi yeewnii) / Baaba Maal. CD 10556
Nomad soul [sound recording] / Baaba Maal. CD 10558
Nothing's in Vain / Youssou N'Dour. CD 10756
The music of the Diola-Fogny of the Casamance, Senegal. LP 8402
Pirates choice / Orchestra Baobab. CD 10310
The Rough Guide to Youssou N'Dour & Étoile de Dakar / Youssou N'Dour & Étoile de Dakar. CD 10666
Sabar: the soul of Senegal / Jam Bugum, Omar Thiam, [musical director]. CD 06458
Senegal & Gambia. CD 10568
Set [sound recording] / Youssou N'Dour. CD 10559
Songs of the griots. II. CD 05560 [MANDINGO]
Specialist in All Styles / Orchestra Baobab. CD 10665
Tabala Wolof: Sufi drumming of Senegal. CD 05822
The Toure Kunda collection. CD 9197
Village djembe drumming with Mamadou Sidibe. CD 08186

South Africa

African litany / Juluka. CD 06415
Back in town / Boyoyo Boys. CD 10602
Bantu high life. LP 3016 [BANTU]
Beasts of no nation. CD 05096
The best of Johnny Clegg & Savuka : in my African dream. CD 05929
Eyes on tomorrow / Miriam Makeba. CD 05012
FOSATU worker choirs. LP 12010
Gift of the tortoise : a musical journey through Southern Africa / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 10595
Homeland 2 : a collection of black South African music. CD 06021
Inala / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 10596
A Johnny Clegg and Juluka collection. CD 9204
Jump & jive / Soul Brothers. CD 06932
Mbube roots :Zulu choral music from South Africa. CD 06016
Rhythm of resistance : music of Black South Africa. CD 01789
Sangoma. / Miriam Makeba. CD 05011
Scatterlings / Juluka CD 06421
Serious Reggae Business / Lucky Dube. CD 10936
South African legends. CD 08210
Township jive / Soul brothers. CD 09741
Two worlds one heart / Ladysmith Black Mambazo. CD 06413
Universal men / Juluka. CD 06420
Vuyani / amampondo. CD 9188
Welcome to the USA / Zulu Spear CD 06426
Women of the world / Mahotella Queens. CD 10593
Zulu jive: Zulu beats from South Africa. CD 05824

Sudan

Escalay = The water wheel : oud music. CD 10379
Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601

Tanganyika

Tanganyika I. LP 14482

Tanzania

Ayé. CD 05013
Logozo. CD 05051
Tanzania : music of the farmer composers of Sukumaland : we never sleep, we dream of farming. CD 06273

Togo

Drum gahu : good-time drumming from the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. CD 05777
Musique kabiyè, Togo / enregistrements réalisés par Raymond Verdier. LP 3745 [KABRE]

Tunisia

Music of Islam, 1 [-3]. LP 6961 v.1
The music of Islam. CD 8112
Sahara. LP 4443 v.3
Tunisia. LP 258 v.1

Uganda

Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda. CD 10713
Royal court music from Uganda, 1950 & 1952. CD 08190
Spirit of African Sanctus. CD 03601
Uganda I. LP 14483

Zaire

Africa worldwide: 35th anniversary album / Tabu Ley Rochereau et L'Orchestra
Afrisa International. CD 05879
Emotion / Papa Wemba. CD 05210
Hello hello / Mose Fan Fan. CD 06931
Musiques de l'ancien royaume Kuba. LP 3747 [KUBA]
Northern congo I (Sudanic). LP 14485
Northern Congo II (Bantu). LP 14484
Papa Wemba. CD 07321
Papa Wemba et Viva la Musica. CD 06928
Primitive Music of Africa . LP 8403
Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
Sassa la graisse / Nouvelle Generation. CD 06938
Viva la Musica & Papa Wemba. CD 06999
Zaire : Polyphony of the deep rain forest : Music of the Ituri pygmies. CD 05832
Zap mama. CD 05928

Zimbabwe

Chaminuka / Dumisani Maraire. CD 05845
Mbira : healing music of Zimbabwe. CD 8102
Safarini : the music of African immigrants in transit. CD 08315
Songs from the roadside no. 2. LP 14486
Talking Mbira / Stella Chiweshe. CD 10828
Unity / Black Umfolosi. CD 06558
Vanhu vatema / Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited. CD 06519
Zimbabwe : Shona mbira music. CD 10373
Zimbabwe : the African mbira : music of the Shona people. CD 10378
Zimbabwe : the souls of Mbira : traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. CD 07704

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