#Africa Oyé

[janemacneil]

Africa Oyé, Sefton Park, Liverpool, June 2024

[theliverpudlianuk]

🎵 Amorphic Music in association with Africa Oyé and Melodic Distraction proudly present the legendary afrofuturist, avant-garde jazz musical ensemble, The Sun Ra Arkestra, live at the Invisible Wind Factory on Saturday the 12th of August 2023.

🎵 The Invisible Wind Factory will welcome guests into the Factory Garden from 3pm with live jazz, DJs and food all afternoon to build up for the main event starting at 7pm in their IWF’s Main Hall, ready to welcome the otherworldly Sun Ra Arkestra.

🎵 The Full Line Up: 1️⃣ The Sun Ra Arkestra (Live Performance). 2️⃣ Bop Kaballa (Live Performance). 3️⃣ SOULFULTIZ (DJ — Africa Oyé). 4️⃣ Nina Keh (DJ — Resonance FM). 5️⃣ Ranga (DJ — Melodic Distraction). 6️⃣ Nick Branton & Johnny Hunter Duo (Live Performance).

🎵 Read the article on our website for the link to tickets: https://www.TheLiverpudlian.com/post/amorphic-music-in-association-with-africa-oye-melodic-distraction-host-legendary-sun-ra-arkestra

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[kizaba]

KIZABA - LIVE SHOW IN BOGOTA ( FESTIVAL AFROFUTURISMO)

Lionel Kizaba, auteur-compositeur-interprète, multi-instrumentiste et pionnier de la musique électro afro-congolaise basé à Montréal, a tracé un chemin musical unique. Avec une fusion du français, de l'anglais, du kikongo et du lingala, ses compositions transcendent les barrières linguistiques. En 2022, il entame sa première tournée aux États-Unis, sur la célèbre scène principale du festival historique de jazz de la Nouvelle-Orléans aux côtés d'artistes emblématiques tels que Lionel Richie, Ceelo Green, Charlie Wilson et The Foo Fighters. Son parcours remarquable s'est poursuivi alors qu'il a captivé le public lors d'événements de premier plan comme le Festival International de Louisiane, le Festival Africa Oyé en Angleterre, Mapas en Espagne, Circulart à Medellin en Colombie, Womad Chili, Mundial Montréal, M Pour Montréal, Séoul Music Week Korea et Global Toronto. Les performances de Kizaba sont enrichies par la collaboration de musiciens talentueux originaires de Cuba, d'Haïti, de Côte d'Ivoire et du Québec. S'inspirant de son éducation congolaise, ses spectacles arborent un style musical diversifié. Il tisse astucieusement des vocalisations ancestrales avec les sons vibrants du Soukous-Congolais et de l'Afrobeat, imprégnés d'une philosophie Afro-Punk Rock. Pour offrir une expérience sensorielle complète, les productions scéniques de Kizaba intègrent des visuels fascinants influencés par les masques traditionnels congolais et Africain, évoquant une ambiance psychédélique.

[notorious-gay]

Some of my faves from Africa Oyé 2024

[c-40]

A-T-4 129 Steve Monite Only You

Only You

Things Fall Apart (Disco Jam)

Welcome My Love

Things Fall Apart (Vocal)

Only You (Disco Jam)

The sun is out and it's Africa Oyé weekend here in Liverpool so here are a few tracks from Nigerian born Steve Monite's debut solo album Only You. The track Only You was rediscovered in the 2010s when it was included on the Soundway compilation Doing It In Lagos (Boogie, Pop & Disco In 1980s Nigeria) and Soundway reissued the full album in 2022. It was produced by the Cameroon-born Nigerian-bred producer and keyboard player Nkono Teles who brought top it a "modern" afro-pop sound. I've read the demo tracks had a reggae feel to them. Great thing about these re-issues is that they're well researched and there will be interviews with the artists about the recordings, here's an extract from the blurb on bandcamp

“After the Civil War in Nigeria, everybody wanted something exciting,” says Monite. Highlife, the dominant music genre, was seen as outmoded. “The educated elite were listening to American and English music,” he continues. “My role models were people like Barry White and Michael Jackson – they were young men like me. I liked the [American] funk band Brass Construction; some English pop.” 

After his self-funded recording sessions in London failed in finding Monite a label home in the UK, he returned home to immediately be picked up by EMI Records in Nigeria instead. “They signed me straight away,” he says, and found himself in the EMI Studios with Nkono Teles, in the same studios where Paul McCartney and Wings recorded Band on the Run in 1973. 

Monite says that Teles had lived for a time in New York, where disco music was driven by the whirr of the synth, and he’d wanted to bring that into Nigerian music. There was a Moog synthesiser in the studio and it’s what took Only You in a spacey new direction. “I was the first African artist to play electro-funk,” says Monite. “Teles was the visionary behind that song.”

Monite wrote a further three tracks, 'Welcome My Love', 'I Had A Dream’ and 'Things Fall Apart', which formed the basis of his one and only album. Monite wrote ‘Things Fall Apart’ after the military coup in 1983, when the country was yet again plunged into upheaval. “There was unemployment everywhere, food shortages, people scrambling for survival,” he says. “So many people, especially professional people like doctors, lawyers, businessmen, left Nigeria.”

In a way, the song documented the end of the golden age. With the middle classes dispersed, Nigeria’s halcyon boogie period was over. Steve Monite released his debut album in 1984 but it fell on deaf ears, including that of the label, who didn’t seem to want to promote it. “When my record came out, everything went cold.”

[whatsonmedia]

Music Monday Get Yer Rage On: Sleaford Mods Return!

Sleaford Mods fans rejoice! The iconic Nottingham duo are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their breakthrough album "Divide and Exit" with a special remastered reissue. DISORIENTATIONS Announce UK Summer Tour Dates It took me a couple of listening attempts to get into it, and I absolutely did. If I had to pick five things to describe Lost Today they'd be, Incredible, Energised guitar riffs, Superb vocals, Great vibes, and, Great album. Listen 'Lost Today' album  https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZPQy6ribf8IQsDdBOTyZI?si=64kyFX3qTfGjfWz7OM1zcA Now I enjoy watching music videos, but I particularly like the ones where the fan base is included as it shows the love for the band but also that people are aware of who they are and that their music's appreciated  Watch 'Loner' video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr7uk_2xCuM Disorientations 2024 UK Tour: - 08.08 @ Broadcast, Glasgow - 09.08 @ The New Aldelphi Club, Hull - 10.08 @ Quarry (Frogfest), Liverpool Africa Oyé Festival returns to Sefton Park, Liverpool on 22nd & 23rd June 2024! The musical extravaganza celebrating African Culture returns this month as always there's something there for everyone. Liverpool will be playing host to this incredible event, full details including who'll be performing and tickets are below  Selected artists, Oyé's Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney and representatives from Movema are available for interviews. Africa Oyé Festival 22nd & 23rd June 2024 Sefton Park, Liverpool FREE ENTRY Africa Oyé, the UK’s largest free celebration of African music and culture, takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the city centre, the event has gone from strength to strength, moving to its present Sefton Park home in 2002 to cope with demand. With too many negative representations of Africa entrenched in images of war, disease, poverty and famine, Oyé seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures, foods, music and artists that make this great continent one of the most vibrant and inspiring in the world. “This isn’t just the largest festival of African and Caribbean music in Britain, it’s the best” – The Sunday Times The festival is also a truly international event that harnesses the spirit of multiculturalism. It has played host to artists from nations right across Africa and also programmes music from South America and The Caribbean with Salsa, Soca and Reggae always a popular addition to the festivities. But Africa Oyé is about more than music… Over 90 stalls selling the best food, drink, arts and crafts and fashion from Africa and beyond will again be present at the Oyé village along with longtime supporter ‘News From Nowhere’, one of the UK’s premier stockists of African music, with all the performing artists and much more on sale, it’s a great opportunity to not only take in some of the best roots music around, but take some home with you too. For more information on the festival and other events held across the country by Africa Oyé please visit africaoye.com and follow them across social media. Website The UK’s biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture will take place at Sefton Park in Liverpool this June with a stellar line-up of live music, DJs, workshops and more. On 22nd and 23rd June 2024, Africa Oyé will take over one of the region’s most picturesque green spaces in what has become a Liverpool institution since its humble beginnings as a series of city centre gigs in 1992. Goat Girl Share New Track and Video ‘words fell out’ Watch It Here Below The Waste Out This Friday, June 7, 2024 via Rough Trade Records A good video and I actually liked it. The lack of any colour tones but rather just grainy monochrome adds just that bit more depth to the sombre tones of the song. For tracks with deeper, emotive depth monochrome just seems to mirror the moods better  Watch 'Words Fell Out' You can catch her on tour later this year. For further information please check the information below  Upcoming UK + EU Tours  OUTSTORE UK TOUR - June 7 - Kingston – Banquet - June 8 – London – Rough Trade East - June 9 – Nottingham – Rough Trade Nottingham + Bear Tree Records - June 10 - Leeds – Crash Records - June 11 - Bristol – Rough Trade - The Fleece - June 12 - Brighton – Resident Records - Chalk - June 15 - Spain - Andoain, Andoaingo Rock Jaialdia - June 28 - Newcastle Upon Tyne - Boiler Shop - June 29 - Glasgow - Queens Park - Big City Festival - August 17 - Germany - Hamburg - MS Dockville - August 23 - Ravenglass, Cumbria - Krankenhaus Festival - August 29 - Switzerland - La Tour de Peilz - Nox Orae Festival - August 31 - Manchester - Manchester Psych Fest EU TOUR - Oct 8 - France Paris Point Ephémère - Oct 9 - Belgium Brussels AB Club - Oct 10 - Luxembourg City Rotondes - Oct 11 - Germany Nürnberg Pop Festival - Oct 12 - Germany Cologne MTC - Oct 13 - Germany Berlin Privatclub - Oct 14 - Netherlands Utrecht Ekko - UK TOUR - Nov 21 - Leeds Irish Centre - Nov 22 - Edinburgh La Belle Angele - Nov 23 - Birmingham the Castle & Falcon - Nov 27 - Southampton Papillon - Nov 28 - Heaven, London Amyl & The Sniffers Announce November UK Tour Dates Watch "U Should Not Be Doing that" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCxgUPFVFkA&ab_channel=AmylandTheSniffers The song, absolutely incredible from start to finish. This is the first time that I have ever heard of Amyl and her band yet am already enjoying her music and what she is about. One of the things I like about her voice, apart from it being utterly charismatic, is that it balances the the deepness of the music. The video for the song is just as fantastic and just shows the close-knit relationship of the band. Can't even fault it. You can catch her on tour later this year. Full details including tickets are below November UK/EU Tour Dates in RED below: UK / EUR Tour 2024 - May 30 – Primavera, Barcelona, Spain - June 1 – Freak Valley, Netphen, Germany - June 3 –La Nuit Fournier, Lyon, France - June 4 – Bikini, Toulouse, France - June 6 – Primavera, Porto, Portugal - June 8 – Northside, Arhaus, Denmark - June 9 – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands US Tour 2024 - JUL 13 - Day In Day Out, Seattle, WA, USA - JUL 19 - Citi Field, New York, NY, USA *with Foo Fighters - JUL 20 - White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, NJ, USA - JUL 21 - Fenway Park, Boston, MA, USA *with Foo Fighters - JUL 23 – Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey, PA, USA *with Foo Fighters - JUL 25 - The Majestic Theatre, Detroit, MI, USA - JUL 28 - Underground Music Showcase, Denver, CO, USA - JUL 30 - Granada Theater, Lawrence, KS, USA - JUL 31 - Mercury Ballroom, Louisville, KY, USA - AUG 1 - HI-FI Annex, Indianapolis, IN, USA - AUG 3 - Asbury Hall, Buffalo, NY, USA - AUG 4 – Osheaga, Montreal, QC, CANADA - AUG 5 - Higher Ground South, Burlington, VT, USA - AUG 7 - Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR, USA - AUG 9 - BMO Stadium, Los Angeles, CA, USA *with Foo Fighters - AUG 13 - The Sound, Del Mar, CA, USA - AUG 14 - The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA - AUG 15 - The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA - NOV 5 – National Stadium - Dublin, Ireland - Nov 6 – O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK - Nov 7 – NX – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK - Nov 9 – Manchester Academy, Manchester, UK - Nov 10 – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK - Nov 11 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK - Nov 15 – The Roundhouse, London, UK - Nov 17 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium - Nov 18 – Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands - Nov 19 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany - Nov 21 – VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark - Nov 22 - Große Freiheit 36, Hamburg, Germany - Nov 23 – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany - Nov 25 – Tonhalle. Munich, Germany - Nov 26 – Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland - Nov 27 – Olympia, Paris, France - Nov 29 – Floyd, Athens, Greece Amyl & The Sniffers are Amy Taylor, Dec Martens, Gus Romer and Bryce Wilson Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Sleaford Mods to reissue remastered classic album Divide and Exit on 26 July Limited anniversary edition vinyl features new sleeve designed by Cold War Steve, flexi-disc featuring unreleased track ‘Git Some Balls’ and new sleeve notes. Exclusive CD ... Sleaford Mods to play Divide and Exit UK Tour in grassroots venues this November 'Tied Up in Nottz', with restored 'borrowed bus' video, out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNNWma_oHIA&feature=youtu.be You can think what you like about this Nottingham duo but what I will say is that I admire and respect their 'don't give a f**k, I tell it as it is' attitude. If anything, there should be more artists like this who have a bordering non-conformist zero bulls**t attitude.  Now I have seen several great artists come out of Nottingham and these guys are amongst the great talents. Love Tied up in Nottz, cannot even fault it. You can Preorder the album, Divide and Exit as well as catch them on tour later this year  Preorder album now Sleaford Mods - 19 November - Sheffield - The Leadmill - 20 November - Edinburgh - La Belle Angèle - 21 November - Newcastle upon Tyne - University of Northumbria - 23 November - Liverpool - The Florrie - 26 November - Lincoln - The Drill - 28 November - Exeter - The Lemon Grove - 29 November - Portsmouth - The Wedgewood Rooms - 30 November - Nottingham - Bodega For full information, and to pre-order or pre-save the album visit  Official Website Facebook Instagram Read the full article

[musicnewsweb]

ICYMI: Congolese rumba royalty heads up final wave of international artists for Africa Oyé 2024 - #africaoye @africaoye http://dlvr.it/T6LPzg

[entertainmehub]

ICYMI: Congolese rumba royalty heads up final wave of international artists for Africa Oyé 2024 - #africaoye @africaoye http://dlvr.it/T6LLHb

[abeqne]

Greg, Lark Lane, Africa Oyé

2019

[paolobrand]

It was brilliant to be back at a festival for the first time in 3 long years 🤩 Africa Oyé here in Liverpool is great fun and best of all it’s free. Anyone fancy it next summer, just shout and we’ll organise a cool weekend 😎 #africaoye #liverpool #seftonpark #aigburth #parklife #festival #summer #africaoyefestival #nofilter (at Sefton Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCOsxQDM1Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thenetionalnews]

Africa Oyé: Thousands attend as Liverpool festival marks 30 years

Africa Oyé: Thousands attend as Liverpool festival marks 30 years

The two-day Africa Oyé festival is the UK’s biggest celebration of the continent’s music and culture. Source link

[janemacneil]

Africa Oyé, Sefton Park, Liverpool, June 2023

[theliverpudlianuk]

🎵 Amorphic Music in association with Africa Oyé and Melodic Distraction proudly present the legendary afrofuturist, avant-garde jazz musical ensemble, The Sun Ra Arkestra, live at the Invisible Wind Factory on Saturday the 12th of August 2023.

🎵 The Invisible Wind Factory will welcome guests into the Factory Garden from 3pm with live jazz, DJs and food all afternoon to build up for the main event starting at 7pm in their IWF's Main Hall, ready to welcome the otherworldly Sun Ra Arkestra.

🎵 The Full Line Up: 1️⃣ The Sun Ra Arkestra (Live Performance). 2️⃣ Bop Kaballa (Live Performance). 3️⃣ SOULFULTIZ (DJ — Africa Oyé). 4️⃣ Nina Keh (DJ — Resonance FM). 5️⃣ Ranga (DJ — Melodic Distraction). 6️⃣ Nick Branton & Johnny Hunter Duo (Live Performance).

🎵 Read the article on our website for the link to tickets: https://www.TheLiverpudlian.com/post/amorphic-music-in-association-with-africa-oye-melodic-distraction-host-legendary-sun-ra-arkestra

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[kizaba]

Thank you the great public of Brasil Recife, for the your love Festival Rec-Beat super great that danced non-stop to my new album Kizavibe 🥰🫶🏾 thank you very much @rostttand for the video and to all the team of recbeat festival 💝 @gutierec 💝 Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada 💖

🔥🎵KIZABA🎵🔥<<Afrofuturiste Planétaire>>

KIZABA, is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, pioneer of Afro-Congolese electro music, based in Montreal, Canada, who sings in French, English, Kikongo and Lingala. In 2022, for his first tour in the United States of America, in Louisiana, he opened the festival, on main stage, of the historic Festival of jazz history at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with a line up of great artists like Lionel Richie, Ceelo Green, Charlie Wilson, Kelly and Foo Fighters, etc. He also performed for the public of the Festival international of Louisiane and move to Europe to introduce his music in England to the Festival Africa Oyé, Mapas in Spain, Canada At Womex in Portugal, Circulart in Medellin Colombia, Womad Chile In Santiago Chile and M pour Montréal, Canada. He also has several shows in Canada, Quebec, British Colombia and around the world in the different continendts.

Depuis juillet 2021, après sa performance au Mundial Montréal, Kizaba a sorti 4 singles : Soso, Naturelle, Tu aimes danser et Kituamina. Son deuxième album ‘’Kizavibe’’ réaliser par Gone Deville et la collaboration de Eli Levinson sur Kituamina et le mix sur My people, Kizavibe sorti en novembre 2022 à la Société des arts technologiques Société des arts technologiques [SAT][SAT] dans le cadre de M pour Montréal M POUR MONTRÉAL/M FOR MONTREAL !

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[markmcnulty]

Just a few of the highlights (and there were many) of an amazing weekend, working at Africa Oyé. It's always brilliant, even when the weather's not so kind, but the music this year was on another level with BCUC, Moonlight Benjamin and Garifuna Collective being my new favourites.

Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

One love X

[c-40]

A-T-3 191 Africa Oyé - two disco tracks from South Africa

It's Africa Oyé weekend in Liverpool. The weather has been beautiful all week but today is overcast... gutted!

Picnicing by Starlight appeared on Soundway's Gumba Fire comp in 2018 and Startlight's only album was reissued earlier this year. Starlight were South African production duo of Emil Zoghby and John Galanakis 

Manyane - Thabong (Frankie Francis Bubblegum Dub) - This was put out by the same label as the track above. This edit was put out by Soundway on the 12" EP Heads Records: South African Disco Dub Edits in 2018. The original instrumental pitch down to -8 had become a cosmic fave