#Zimbabwean Jazz

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Attuma Xoc Almehen - 26 - Yucatec Mayan

Okoye Achebe - 28 - Zimbabwean

Okoye was working in real estate when they first met and Attuma was studying Marine Biology but worked Part-Time as a Gym Instructor.

Attuma rides a motorcycle and has taken Okoye for a ride on the back of it. He puts his helmet on her head and takes her around the corner. She hates it. It’s awful. Now she calls it a death machine and Attuma has to be extra careful while riding it. Because if he crashes, she'll make him sell it.

Okoye loves jazz readings and poetry nights, which is great because Attuma writes poems and plays guitar.

Attuma watches soap operas/ Telenovelas but doesn’t want anyone to know; He used to watch them with his mother growing up in Yucatán. He’s sensitive and loves rom-coms and reality TV too. Attuma absolutely DOESNT cry at the end of The Fault in Our Stars, there was dust in his eye…

Okoye occasionally watches them with him, mostly because she loves to sit in his lap while he yells in Spanish at the Television. She has been secretly taking Spanish lessons online and learning and one day she chimes in to surprise him.

“Josephina! She caught the bullet with her hands! Órale!”

“Que? Now She is poisoning Senor Gonzales? Estúpido! Doesn’t she know Carlos is her real father??”

A shocked silence rolls over them both. Okoye just hopes he would find it funny, even if she sounded ridiculous.

Why is he crying? “Mi corazón! Enamorada de ti…” he is sobbing and crushing her in his arms.

“So I said it right?” “Yes! You did so good!”

Attuma thinks it’s so amusing when she randomly curses in Spanish.

“Esra taco está de puta madre.” She says under her breath at the table and he bursts into laughter. “I’m glad you like it, I guess??” He'll say.

Attuma likes it when she calls him ‘Papi’. He likes it a lot.

“Attuma, come here please!”

“One second, Ko! What the fuck!? That was in!” He’s watching soccer, but she needs him to come taste this new recipe she’s trying.

“Papi, come here and eat this!”

She doesn’t hear anything for a moment and then, quick heavy steps until he’s in the doorway. He looks her up and down then to what she’s doing. “What did you say?”

“I said come try this.” She lied.

“No, you didn’t. You said ‘come eat you’. You called me Papi. Them is 'fucking words'.”

“Come try this damn asada!”

“I’m not hungry for that. Bend over the counter.”

“Attuma!”

Okoye sends him dirty pictures while he's at work or often with friends. Before she moved in with him, he would have to endure her sending him racy photos in her underwear or suggestive selfies.

One time, she did it and he got tired of it.

She sent him a picture of her in new lingerie and watches as his text bubble pops up and down repeatedly.

Then

Incoming Call: Attuma 😘

"Hello?"

"Open the door."

She learned her lesson that night.

Their first date:

Attuma planned everything. With the help of their friend group.

He made dinner reservations and a beautiful walk through the botanical gardens and then he'd have Namor drive his range so he wouldn't have to worry about parking.

The reservations fell through, so they had to get take out food instead.

Namor got a flat on the way to pick them up from the gardens, he was waiting for M'baku to pick him up now.

and it was pouring rain. They were stranded in the pouring rain.

He and Okoye were soaked and he nearly cried thinking about how the night was ruined.

"It's okay, Tuma! This has been great still!"

"But it wasn't supposed to be like this, Ko! It was supposed to be perfect..."

They found slight shelter under a tree, and she comforted him. Pressing soft kisses into his cheek while he kicked at the rocks in front of him.

"I'm sorry, Ko..."

"Don't be. Listen, I like you and I love that you put so much effort into today... I don't even care that my hair is wet!"

"Really?" "Of course... sorta. But the rain isn't your fault."

They sat in silence for a moment.

"Y'know..." Okoye starts. "I've never had a kiss in the rain..."

Attuma doesn't respond just stands up and takes her hand in his, walking out into the rain. When he stops, she goes to ask how he wants to do it and her feet have left the ground.

The world stops when he holds her up in his arms and kisses her. And she feels like a princess! She thinks the violins she hears might be in her imagination... but she doesn't care.

His hands, gently in her hair, hers upon his chest. Attuma smiles and glances toward the sky which promises more rain to come, thunder like a round of applause for love and romance.

She takes a moment to appreciate the rain rolling down his neck and off his stubbled jaw.

He pulls back and sets her down gently. He lets out a small laugh and she knows it's because she's awestruck at how perfect he looks, soaked in rain.

"I'll make it up to you, Ko. We can have another first date."

"No."

"N-no? Wha-"

"This was perfect."

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340: Various Artists // Two Tribes

Two Tribes Various Artists 2019, Agogo (Bandcamp)

A double-LP mixtape/compilation from Hannover electronic label Agogo Records, Two Tribes “makes an effort to give insight in how [sic] musicians living in Europe today incorporate and transfer musical traditions particularly from the African continent into their oeuvre” (per the liner notes). Ostensibly, everyone here is either a musician living in Europe with African roots of some kind, or is a European musician collaborating with Africans, though in some cases what you get is just a Euro DJ using a few “tribal” sounding drum stems.

I had a lot of fun listening to the most ‘70s sounding funk stuff here and trying to guess how white the musicians were, but I was underprepared for the intensity of unpasteurized Funky Continental Guyness I was exposed to. Winners included guitarist Petri Kautto of Finnish-Beninese Afro-jazz combo Trio Toffa (pretty good), who strongly resembles Bill Nighy wearing a bucket hat with fake dreads attached to it, and Berlin’s slavishly authentic Afro-funk group Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers, who look like the S-Bahn Bloodhound Gang.

Petri Kauto of Trio Toffa

Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers

The compilation has what strikes me as a downright quaint (and very German) attitude towards the notion of cultural exchange that runs the risk of being pilloried for appropriation, but I’m sympathetic to it. Certainly, a collaboration like that between Zimbabwean mbira player Jacob Mafuleni and French DJ Gary Gritness that is neither explicitly “African” or “European” is by nature a more truly cross-cultural enterprise than Onom Agemo’s reverent homage or German DJ Elias “Agogo” Foerster’s vaguely Books-ish chops of African beat and vocal samples, but whatever. Influence is impossible to strictly regulate, and I don’t know that it’s even desirable to. White guys nerding out and riffing on the music of the cultures their governments currently oppress isn’t a problem—that their governments are oppressing those cultures, and that the scenes they operate within often have the taint of trickled down racism despite their utopian values, is. One hopes that Agogo and these musicians are cognizant of these challenges, even as they radiate a genuine and laudable affection for African music.

It’s worth noting that, while the European club sounds represented range from ‘90s style techno and 2-step to more modern forms of minimal house and bass music, the African face of the coin is almost exclusively defined by the funky ‘70s and ‘80s sounds that drive record collectors into quasi-sexual spasms. Being one of those guys, I don’t mind it aesthetically, but it’s interesting that the most contemporary-sounding piece is the 15-minute minimal house track “Just in a Moment to Find a Way to Sun Day” by Ivorian-born Hamburg DJ Raoul K. The centrepiece of K’s track sounds to me like a synthesized mbira, but he doesn’t feel the need to flag his music as African—perhaps because he actually is a young guy of African descent. Instead, he puts on a master class in using simple shifts in rhythm and dynamics to keep a room vibing in near perpetuity.

Anyway, as a mix, Two Tribes contains a lot of fine music and flows nicely. I dig Andrea Benini’s Francis Bebey-esque “Jawa” and the K track in particular, but nothing aside from Selma Uamusse’s anime-sounding “Mozambique (Ao Sul Do Mundo)” actively irks me. I’ve listened to Two Tribes a lot more than many other records in my collection that dig deeper, or make more powerful statements, because in the end, I just like the way it sounds.

340/365

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Top five underrated songs or artists, need new music to listen to

O fuk idk if I can think of five good ones but here goes

1) Hugh Masakela. One of the best jazz artists on the planet. I'm talking Louis Armstrong tier. Highly underrated outside of Africa.

2) Thomas Mapfumo, the king of Chimurenga music and a hero of the Zimbabwean revolution.

3) Sons of Champlin, a bay area psychedelic band who could've made it big. Lots of brass and interesting arrangements. They were overshadowed by the grateful dead

4) Any John Zorn project. Dude's really good at torturing jazz instruments. I particularly like painkiller.

5) auhghhhb my brain hurts from thinking. Iunnooo I'm sorry

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Victory By Rudo Chakwera Ft. Michael Mahendere

Malawian Versatile gospel music minister, Rudo Chakwera teaming up with Zimbabwean Superstar Minister Michael Mahendere drops a brand new song tagged “VICTORY”. Minister Rudo Chakwera popularly known as the song bird was born to Malawi’s Iconic Jazz artist Isaac Mkukupa, she started singing as soon as she could talk. She rose to fame in Malawi’s Music Industry in 1999 when she recorded her first…

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[DOWNLOAD] Victory - Rudo Chakwera Ft. Michael Mahendere

Malawian gospel artiste Rudo Chakwera teams up with Zimbabwean Superstar Minister Michael Mahendere on a new song Victory. Following her recent partnership with Bridge Afric and Jacobs Event, Malawian songbird Rudo Chakwera is set to drop her new project featuring Minister Michael Mahindere, the song is titled Victory. Rudo popularly known as the songbird was born to Malawi’s Iconic Jazz artist…

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Seneca and 9th Audio presents: Words of Wisdom

In an electrifying collaboration, vocalist Seneca and acclaimed Zimbabwean producer 9th Audio have united to breathe new life into Seneca's iconic anthem, "Words of Wisdom." 

Zimbabwean Amapiano Remix

This time, they venture into uncharted musical territory, with 9th Audio infusing the track with the vibrant rhythms of Zimbabwe and the infectious beats of Amapiano.

With roots firmly planted in the heart of Zimbabwe, this remix pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of the region while embracing the modern soundscape of Amapiano. Seneca's soulful vocals soar over a backdrop of pulsating beats and rhythmic melodies, transporting listeners on a euphoric journey of sound and sensation.

As the remix unfolds, layers of traditional Zimbabwean instrumentation interweave seamlessly with the infectious groove of Amapiano, creating a sonic tapestry that is both captivating and exhilarating. The result is a fusion of past and present, a celebration of heritage and innovation that transcends boundaries and defies categorization.

From the bustling streets of Harare to the dance floors of the world, "Words of Wisdom (Zimbabwean Amapiano Remix)" beckons listeners to surrender to its irresistible rhythm and embrace the spirit of unity and joy. It's more than just a remix; it's a testament to the power of music to bridge cultures, ignite passions, and inspire change.

So, let the beat carry you away, let the melody set your spirit free. For in the heart of this remix lies a message of hope, resilience, and the timeless power of words of wisdom.

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Originally from Florida, Seneca has been blessing crowds for over 20 years. As a solo artist and member of Jazz Mafia, Seneca has performed over 1000 shows, always with a spiritual, political and energetic vibrancy. He makes conscious HipHop, Reggae & Dancehall music. His 20-year career has brought him to share the stage with reggae greats Steele Pulse, Hip Hop icons Will.i.am and KRS One, as well as mentorship and inspiration from Bay Area legends Rocker-T and the late Luv Fyah. His vast musical journey has given him the honor of touring the US with Jazz Mafia's "Brass Bows and Beats," a 50 piece symphony, headlining the Montreal Jazz Fest, Newport Jazz Festival, and the world-famous Hollywood Bowl. He now lives in Albany, CA and continues to make music for the evolution of the soul and healing of the planet.

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I've always wanted to live.

I've always wanted to live on an island. The ability to walk from one end of something to another is rewarding. I'd like it to take a day or two to complete. I'd like there to be a small village, consisting of: 10-20 residents, a green grocers, a butchers, a general store and a single bar that hosts karaoke every Thursday. I'd like there to only be dirt roads with very minimal cars. Lush forests and interesting wildlife, particularly birds. Migratory birds would visit the island at the same time every year, I'd even become friends with the older ones. It wouldn't be extremely hot, but not cold either. 5-10c in the winter and 15-25c in the summer. The heat would be dry. I'd spend my days relaxing, creating, whatever I saw fit. Creative work, I couldn't live without it. Sometimes, the wild boars of the island would come up to me, this was a sign I'd be allowed to feed them by hand. The water surrounding the island would be a deep dark blue, there wouldn't be a sign of rubbish. Marine Biologists would visit once a year to check how the local ecology was. One of them would be awful at karaoke but we wouldn't be able to break it to them. In the morning, you'd hear the fisherman set off for their days work, pipping throughout the morn, bearing the night before on their faces. Seagulls wouldn't visit the island, they wouldn't need to, there's plenty of fish in the sea. On the weekend, from the shore of the island you could hear our resident musician out at sea. The instruments he chose to play weren't pleasant to be around unless they were performed correctly, so he always made sure to practice a good distance away. Sometimes he'd play something in the bar, usually on a Tuesday. One night, he'd choose the trumpet and play a sorrowful ballad that filled the eyes of all who had the pleasure to hear it. For events such as weddings and funerals, he'd play the bagpipes. Unless asked otherwise. He'd believe it to be a sign of respect. It would be peaceful.

I've always wanted to live in the city. The quiet of the field surrounded town was too much to bear. The fear of being outed for something I couldn't share. Harassed and accosted for the person I am. None of this would happen in my sprawling city. It would be impossible to get from one end to other in a day, even with the incredible infrastructure. Buses, trams and metros would be free for all and bicycles would be incredibly safe to ride. There would be something to do every night, a new possibility in a new neighbourhood. The punk bars up north, the central jazz section, the indie film club showing films on 8mm. I'd have a million lovers and a million more friends. I'd never be alone. Every night from the rooftops you'd be able to hear the neighbourhood dogs barking and cats meowing to be let in. The people! Not one would look alike, yet they'd all have their clique. The businessmen would all wear their tight fitting suits, some experimented with colourful ties and garish socks. You could spot a jazz singer from half a mile away, dark shades for every season, big baggy trousers and a half buttoned down shirt. It would be the style but not a uniform, they would experiment with crazy hair and when they belted their hearts out of their throat. Babies would cease their screaming and lovebugs would click their fingers. Art would be free to express itself, galleries would be full of artists who were showing something new and daring. Shocking and soothing. Smothering and comforting. Food would be cheap and with extreme variety. Polish, Indian, Scottish, Romanian, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Moroccan, Spanish, Portuguese, American, Finnish, Swedish, Nigerian, South African, Ethiopian, Zimbabwean, Mongolian, English, Irish, Brazilian, Chilean, Argentinian, Taiwanese, Korean, French, German, Palestinian, Greek, Turkish, Laotian. There would be a single street that featured a beverage establishment of all these varieties, with more spreading out in the further streets. Every year there'd be 10 music festivals, 4 in summer, 2 in spring, 2 in autumn and 2 in winter. It would be a city of artists. A city of food and culture. A city of love.

There is truth in both of these statements. I want to live in both of these places. I want to live in more places; the calm village surrounded by endless rolling hills and fields, the freezing cold icy forest, in a shitty basement flat under a sweltering city. The point is, I want to be everywhere. Luckily, I don't want to be anyone else. I want to be in these places and be the same people. But for now, I am banished to the metropolises. One day I will have my field, beach, island, city. I will find them, they call to me. I plan to answer, as my queer self. Even if I am a criminal in 71 countries. In the end I just want to live.

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Smooth Jazz Meets Reggae: Hazel Mak Collaborates With Sunny Tee On “Night Time Fall”

Smooth Jazz Meets Reggae: Hazel Mak Collaborates With Sunny Tee On “Night Time Fall”

AFRIMMA award-winning Malawi songstress Hazel Mak has teamed up with Zimbabwean jazz aficionado and saxophonist Sunny Tee to release their latest joint single “Night Time Fall”. Cap10 of Audio Garage Malawi produced the joint, and it provides a crossover appeal to fans of smooth jazz, blue-eyed neo-soul and the wider adult reggae genre. Hazel Mak, born Hazel Makunganya, began her music career at…

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Music Genres

This is a rundown of a portion of the world's music sort and their definitions.

African People - Music held to be regular of a country or ethnic gathering, known to all portions of its general public, and protected for the most part by oral custom.

Afro jazz - Alludes to jazz music which has been vigorously impacted by African music. The music took components of marabi, swing and American jazz and blended this into a novel combination. The primary band to truly accomplish this union was the South African band Jazz Crazy people.

Afro-beat - Is a blend of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, melded with African percussion and vocal styles, promoted in Africa during the 1970s.

Afro-Pop - Afropop or Afro Pop is a term now and then used to allude to contemporary African popular music. The term doesn't allude to a particular style or sound, however is utilized as a general term to depict African well known music.

Apala - Initially got from the Yoruba nation of Nigeria. It is a percussion-based style that created in the last part of the 1930s, when waking admirers subsequent to fasting during the Islamic heavenly month of Ramadan was utilized.

Assiko - is a well known dance from the South of Cameroon. The band is normally founded on a vocalist went with a guitar, and a percussionnist playing the throbbing mood of Assiko with metal blades and forks on a vacant container.

Batuque - is a music and dance kind from Cape Verde.

Twist Skin - is a sort of metropolitan Cameroonian famous music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most notable gathering related with the class.

Benga - Is a melodic kind of Kenyan famous music. It developed between the last part of the 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.

Biguine - is a style of music that began in Martinique in the nineteenth hundred years. By joining the conventional bele music with the polka, the dark artists of Martinique made the biguine, which involves three particular styles, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal and the biguines de regret.

Bikutsi - is a melodic type from Cameroon. It created from the customary styles of the Beti, or Ewondo, individuals, who live around the city of Yaounde.

Bongo Flava - it has a blend of rap, hip jump, and R&B first of all yet these names don't do it equity. It's rap, hip jump and R&B Tanzanian style: a major mixture of tastes, history, culture and character.

Rhythm - is a specific series of stretches or harmonies that closes an expression, segment, or piece of music.

Calypso - is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which began in Trinidad at about the beginning of the twentieth 100 years. The foundations of the class lay in the appearance of African slaves, who, not being permitted to talk with one another, conveyed through melody.

Chaabi - is a famous music of Morocco, basically the same as the Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga - is a Zimbabwean famous music kind begat by and promoted by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word for battle.

Chouval Bwa - highlights percussion, bamboo woodwind, accordion, and wax-paper/brush type kazoo. The music started among rustic Martinicans.

Christian Rap - is a type of rap which utilizes Christian subjects to communicate the lyricist's confidence.

Coladeira - is a type of music in Cape Verde. Its component rises to funacola which is a combination of funanáa and coladera. Well known coladera performers incorporates Antoninho Travadinha.

Contemporary Christian - is a class of well known music which is melodiously centered around issues worried about the Christian confidence.

Country - is a mix of famous melodic structures initially tracked down in the Southern US and the Appalachian Mountains. It has establishes in conventional society music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and bygone era music and developed quickly during the 1920s.

Ballroom - is a kind of Jamaican famous music which created in the last part of the 1970s, with examples like Yellowman and Shabba Positions. It is otherwise called bashment. The style is portrayed by an emcee singing and toasting (or rapping) over crude and danceable music riddims.

Disco - is a classification of dance-situated popular music that was promoted in dance clubs during the 1970s.

Society - in the most fundamental feeling of the term, is music by and for the average citizens.

Free-form - is a type of electronic music that is intensely impacted by Latin American culture.

Fuji - is a famous Nigerian melodic kind. It emerged from the spontaneous creation Ajisari/were music custom, which is a sort of Muslim music performed to wake devotees before sunrise during the Ramadan fasting season.

Funana - is a blended Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the lower part of the body development is African, and the upper part Portuguese.

Funk - is an American melodic style that started in the mid-to late-1960s when African American performers mixed soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a cadenced, danceable new type of music.

Gangsta rap - is a subgenre of hip-jump music which created during the last part of the 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a minor departure from the spelling of 'hoodlum'. After the ubiquity of Dr. Dre's The Persistent in 1992, gangsta rap turned into the most economically worthwhile subgenre of hip-bounce.

Genge - is a sort of hip jump music that had its starting points in Nairobi, Kenya. The name was instituted and promoted by Kenyan rapper Nonini who got going at Calif Records. A style integrates hip jump, dancehall and customary African music styles. It is generally sung in Sheng(slung),Swahili or neighborhood lingos.

Gnawa - is a combination of African, Berber, and Arabic strict tunes and rhythms. It joins music and aerobatic moving. The music is both a request and a festival of life.

Gospel - is a melodic class portrayed by prevailing vocals (frequently with solid utilization of congruity) referring to verses of a strict sort, especially Christian.

Highlife - is a melodic sort that started in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria during the 1920s and other West African nations.

Hip-Bounce - is a style of famous music, regularly comprising of a cadenced, rhyming vocal style called rapping (otherwise called emceeing) over sponsorship beats and scratching performed on a turntable by a DJ.

House - is a style of electronic dance music that was created by dance club DJs in Chicago in the right on time to mid-1980s. House music is emphatically affected by components of the last part of the original sound design 1970s soul-and funk-imbued dance music style of disco.

Non mainstream - is a term used to depict types, scenes, subcultures, styles and other social credits in music, described by their freedom from significant business record names and their independent, DIY way to deal with recording and distributing.

Instrumental - An instrumental is, as opposed to a tune, a melodic sythesis or recording without verses or whatever other kind of vocal music; the music is all delivered by instruments.

Isicathamiya - is a cappella singing style that started from the South African Zulus.

Jazz - is a unique American melodic fine art which began around the start of the twentieth 100 years in African American people group in the Southern US out of a conversion of African and European music customs.

Jit - is a style of famous Zimbabwean dance music. It includes a quick beat played on drums and joined by a guitar.

Juju - is a style of Nigerian famous music, got from conventional Yoruba percussion. It developed during the 1920s in metropolitan clubs across the nations. The first jùjú accounts were by Tunde Ruler and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s.

Kizomba - is one of the most famous sorts of dance and music from Angola. Sung commonly in Portuguese, it is a kind of music with a heartfelt stream blended in with African cadence.

Kwaito - is a music sort that arose in Johannesburg, South Africa in the mid 1990s. It depends on house music beats, however commonly at a more slow rhythm and containing melodic and percussive African examples which are circled, profound basslines and frequently vocals, for the most part male, yelled or recited as opposed to sung or rapped.

Kwela - is a cheerful, frequently pennywhistle based, road music from southern Africa with fun underpinnings. It advanced from the marabi sound and carried South African music to global conspicuousness during the 1950s.

Lingala - Soukous (otherwise called Soukous or Congo, and beforehand as African rumba) is a melodic type that started in the two adjoining nations of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and mid 1940s

Makossa - is a sort of music which is most famous in metropolitan regions in Cameroon. It is like soukous, with the exception of it incorporates solid bass beat and a noticeable horn segment. It started from a sort of Duala dance called kossa, with critical impacts from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - a sort of music imported to Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish victory in the fifteenth hundred years.

Mapouka - likewise known under the name of Macouka, is a customary dance from the south-east of the Ivory Coast in the space of Dabou, in some cases completed during strict services.

Maringa - is a West African melodic classification. It advanced among the Kru nation of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who utilized Portuguese guitars brought by mariners, consolidating nearby songs and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso.

Marrabenta - is a type of Mozambican dance music. It was created in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, previously Laurenco Marques.

Mazurka - is a Clean society dance in triple meter with an energetic rhythm, containing a weighty emphasize on the third or second beat. It is constantly found to have either a trio, quaver, specked eighth note pair, or standard eighth note pair before two quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the public famous dance music of Senegal. It is a combination of famous dance musics from the West like jazz, soul, Latin, and rock mixed with sabar, the conventional drumming and dance music of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a style of South African music with rustic Zulu attaches that keeps on impacting performers overall today

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The Guardian: British artists recreate ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ photo for Black History Month

Established and up and coming black artists are to be photographed together, marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the British black arts movement, as part of a series of events for Black History Month in October.

The Black Cultural Archives, based in south London, will be commemorating the occasion by paying homage to the classic 1958 A Great Day in Harlem photograph by organising a group photograph featuring black artists who were part of the original movement alongside emerging talents.

The National Black Art Convention, which in 1982 inspired the launch of the British black arts movement, propelled the careers of many artists, including Keith Piper and Sonia Boyce.

Lisa Anderson, the managing director of the Black Cultural Archives, said the decision to recreate the photograph to celebrate the 40th anniversary since the launch of the British black arts movement was due to a desire to “document the community”.

She added: “I want to celebrate the community, and want there to be a sense of the importance of being documented through photography.

“We wanted to enrich the archive, in particular the way the archive represents the history of some of the pioneering and emerging art makers from the black community.”

Anderson added that they were borrowing the concept from Tomorrow’s Warriors, a UK jazz organisation that paid tribute last year to the Harlem photograph with a day of music called A Great Day in London.

“We’re borrowing the concept because we haven’t seen any photograph which documents black British visual artists, and I think it will create an aid for people to go and do further research and engagement with its history, and to also inspire people to pursue their passion for visual art.”

Charlie Phillips, who will be capturing the moment and who has been regarded as one of Britain’s greatest photographers, said his involvement in the project was due to a desire to “document our history”.

“There’s a missing gap in our history, because not a lot has been documented by us, for us,” Phillips said.

Also this month, Brent council will be unveiling a new public artwork in one of its parks, in order to commemorate the victims of the transatlantic slave trade following scrutiny regarding the park being named after a former British prime minister with links to the slave trade.

Gladstone’s father, who was one of the biggest slave owners in the Caribbean, received the largest of all compensation payments made by the Slave Compensation Commission.

Linett Kamala, a director of Notting Hill carnival and the founder of Lin Kam Art, who will be unveiling the artwork, said that as well as commemorating victims of the slave trade, it represented the “huge, fantastic contribution that the black community has made to the borough”.

Kamala added: “The park has a number of murals, but there isn’t anything that reflects the transatlantic slave trade, although the park is named [after] the prime minister’s father who received the largest [slavery] compensation payout.”

Harun Morrison, the artist behind the installation, said that he was interested in creating a piece that “opened up questions for someone who encountered it in the park without being overly prescriptive.

“I was also trying to create for a view to think about the metaphorical potential of plants, and also the history of the park and the history of the Gladstone family,”he added.

In Glasgow, the David Livingstone Birthplace museum will be hosting events celebrating Black Scottish art and culture.

The event, called Our Stories Between the Myths and Memories, has been programmed by the Scottish-Zimbabwean artist Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and will feature work from artists and creatives from across the Scottish African diaspora.

Thembiso Ruwona said: “I’m really excited to be able to bring together so many brilliant creative practitioners from the Scottish African diaspora to one space and to celebrate their contributions to the creative sector.”

She added: “This project speaks to our past, present, and potential futures that examine Black Scottish history, culture and identity. It is also a timely event that will spotlight the work that David Livingstone Birthplace are doing as they consider the role of museums within truthful storytelling, by asking important questions about legacy and memory.”

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My modern AU TGAA music headcanons:

Ryuu likes fun pop music I think, also really likes rap, specifically like, Run The Jewels etc. he loves to try to learn super fast tongue twister type raps in flawless double time

Kazuma likes obscure music. If you've never heard of it, he has, and if you have heard of it, he heard of it first. Is also into older Japanese folk music and traditional instruments.

Susato likes hip hop beats to study and relax to etc. anything chill and relaxing and focused. Shares Kazuma's enjoyment of traditional music as well as modern music.

Herlock likes classical, jazz, prog etc. Anything that tickles his brain and makes him wanna pick up his violin. But he also likes, like, penis music, or jarring avant-garde stuff that people beg him to turn off. Weird old recordings of German songs he found in a pawn shop somewhere. And horrible mashups

Iris has a more wide music taste than you might expect a 10 yo to have. She likes to find random radio stations or YouTube channels online that play like, Zimbabwean disco or Indian jazz-fusion or Swedish breakbeat. She doesn't spend a lot of time listening to the same thing and unlike Kazuma isn't trying to prove a point by doing it, she just likes the variety. Kazuma is shocked and maybe a little dismayed that a ten year old has a more patrician music taste than he does lol.

Gina doesn't listen to music much but would like to and especially enjoys danceable bubblegum pop type beats. Think Carly Rae Jepsen, or like, Katy Perry, etc.

Barok likes classical and orchestral music as well, which you might expect, but I also think of him as being a bit of an arty farty pretentious goth. He also likes dark wave, medieval music, dark folk, goth rock, black/doom/symphonic metal, etc. Anything with a dark atmosphere suitable for brooding to.

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Popular music Genres

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This is a listing of some of the world's popular music genre and their own definitions.

African People - Music kept to be typical on the nation or cultural group, known to just about all segments of it's society, and rescued usually by verbal tradition.

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Afro jazz - Refers to jazz music which has ended up heavily influenced just by African music. That music took portions of marabi, swing together with American jazz and additionally synthesized this to a unique fusion. The main band to really accomplish that synthesis was that South African group of musicians Jazz Maniacs.

Afro-beat - Is a blend of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused using African percussion in addition to vocal styles, popularized in Africa inside 1970s.

Afro-Pop : Afropop or Afro Pop is a words sometimes used to consult contemporary African take music. The term fails to refer to a specific trend or sound, nevertheless is used as a standard term to describe Camera popular music.

Apala - Originally produced the Yoruba most people of Nigeria. It can be a percussion-based style that will developed in the missed 1930s, when it was eventually used to wake worshippers after fasting in the Islamic holy 30 days of Ramadan.

Assiko - is a well-known dance from the Southern of Cameroon. This band is usually influenced by a singer followed with a guitar, and then a percussionnist playing this pulsating rhythm with Assiko with sheet metal knives and forks on an empty product.

Batuque - can be a music and move genre from Cape Verde.

Bend Skin color - is a types of urban Cameroonian preferred music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most well-known group associated with the sort.

Benga - Can be a musical genre involving Kenyan popular new music. It evolved relating to the late 1940s along with late 1960s, with Kenya's capital town of Nairobi.

Biguine - is a type of music that came from Martinique in the nineteenth century. By pairing the traditional bele beats with the polka, your black musicians associated with Martinique created a biguine, which consists three distinct designs, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal along with the biguines de repent.

Bikutsi - is mostly a musical genre with Cameroon. It produced from the traditional brands of the Beti, and Ewondo, people, which live around the location of Yaounde.

Bongo Flava - there are a mix of rap, hiphop, and R&B for beginners but these brands don't do it rights. It's rap, reggae and R&B Tanzanian style: a big shedding pot of preferences, history, culture together with identity.

Cadence -- is a particular number of intervals or chords that ends some sort of phrase, section, and also piece of music.

Calypso - is a form of Afro-Caribbean music which often originated in Trinidad with about the start of the twentieth century. The beginnings of the genre set in the arrival from African slaves, that, not being permitted to speak with each other, conveyed through song.

Chaabi - is a famous music of Morocco, very similar to the Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga : is a Zimbabwean widely used music genre coined by and popularised by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word with regard to struggle.

Chouval Bwa - features percussion, bamboo flute, accordion, and wax-paper/comb-type kazoo. The music has come from among rural Martinicans.

Christian Rap -- is a form of rep which uses Religious themes to express that songwriter's faith.

Coladeira - is a version of music in Cape Verde. Its issue ascends to funacola which is a mixture of funanáa and coladera. Well-known coladera musicians comes with Antoninho Travadinha.

Current Christian - can be described as genre of well-known music which is lyrically focused on matters occupied with the Christian confidence.

Country - is often a blend of popular musical technology forms originally obtained in the Southern Nation and the Appalachian Mountain tops. It has roots within traditional folk audio, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time popular music and evolved immediately in the 1920s.

Move Hall - can be a type of Jamaican preferred music which engineered in the late 1970s, with exponents which include Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also termed bashment. The form is characterized by some deejay singing and additionally toasting (or rapping) over raw in addition to danceable music riddims.

Disco - is mostly a genre of dance-oriented pop music that's popularized in show up clubs in the mid-1970s.

Folk - with the most basic sense in the term, is new music by and for any common people.

Freestyle - is a type of electronic music that's heavily influenced as a result of Latin American traditions.

Fuji - can be described as popular Nigerian play genre. It came into being from the improvisation Ajisari/were music tradition, the industry kind of Muslim beats performed to wake up believers before start during the Ramadan going on a fast season.

Funana : is a mixed Colonial and African audio and dance because of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the reduced part of the body move is African, and also the upper part Colonial.

Funk - can be an American musical fashion that originated in this mid- to late-1960s when African American artists blended soul popular music, soul jazz along with R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new variety of music.

Gangsta gangster rap - is a subgenre of hip-hop new music which developed through the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a variation relating to the spelling of 'gangster'. After the popularity with Dr . Dre's Your Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap grew to be the most commercially financially rewarding subgenre of hip-hop.

Genge - is often a genre of rap music that possessed its beginnings around Nairobi, Kenya. A name was coined and popularized simply by Kenyan rapper Nonini who started off for Calif Records. This is the style that comes with hip hop, dancehall together with traditional African beats styles. It is regularly sung in Sheng(slung), Swahili or nearby dialects.

Gnawa -- is a mixture of Africa, Berber, and Persia religious songs and additionally rhythms. It unites music and acrobatic dancing. The audio is both your prayer and a gathering of life.

Gospel - is a music genre characterized by prominent vocals (often by means of strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of an religious nature, really Christian.

Highlife : is a musical category that originated in Ghana and spread to help Sierra Leone in addition to Nigeria in the 1920s and other West Photography equipment countries.

Hip-Hop -- is a style of famous music, typically including a rhythmic, rhyming vocal style termed rapping (also identified as emceeing) over backing up beats and uncovering performed on a turntable by a DJ.

Property - is a type electronic dance popular music that was developed by creep club DJs inside Chicago in the ahead of time to mid-1980s. Dwelling music is highly influenced by aspects the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music variety of disco.

Indie : is a term useful to describe genres, views, subcultures, styles and also other cultural attributes with music, characterized by ones own independence from serious commercial record product labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to taking and publishing.

A key component - An a key component is, in contrast to a good song, a audio composition or producing without lyrics or even any other sort of oral music; all of the new music is produced by musical technology instruments.

Isicathamiya -- is an a cappella singing style which originated from the Southern area African Zulus.

Jazz - is an primary American musical talent which originated in the beginning of the 20th millennium in African American towns in the Southern United states of america out of a confluence of African along with European music cultures.

Jit - can be a style of popular Zimbabwean dance music. The idea features a swift habit played on percussion and accompanied by a nylon string guitar.

Juju - is mostly a style of Nigerian widely used music, derived from standard Yoruba percussion. That evolved in the 1920s in urban irons across the countries. The pioneer jùjú recordings have been by Tunde Queen and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s.

Kizomba - is one of the most favored genres of transfer and music coming from Angola. Sung typically in Portuguese, it can be a genre of beats with a romantic move mixed with African tempo.

Kwaito - can be described as music genre this emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa within the early 1990s. It can be based on house audio beats, but generally at a slower beat and containing melodic and percussive Cameras samples which are looped, deep basslines and frequently vocals, generally men, shouted or chanted rather than sung or simply rapped.

Kwela : is a happy, quite often pennywhistle based, streets music from northern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It improved from the marabi tone and brought Towards the south African music to help you international prominence inside the 1950s.

Lingala -- Soukous (also named Soukous or Congo, and previously since African rumba) is often a musical genre of which originated in the two adjoining countries of Belgian Congo and The language Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s

Makossa - can be a type of music that's most popular in cities in Cameroon. It's similar to soukous, with the exception it includes strong bass sound rhythm and a well known horn section. The application originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant has impact on from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin popular music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - an music imported so that you can Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish conquest in the 15th one hundred year.

Mapouka - additionally known under the identity of Macouka, is mostly a traditional dance in the south-east of the Pale yellow Coast in the area involving Dabou, sometimes implemented during religious events.

Maringa - can be described as West African play genre. It advanced among the Kru persons of Sierra Leone and Liberia, whom used Portuguese instruments brought by ocean adventurers, combining local songs and rhythms along with Trinidadian calypso.

Marrabenta - is a model of Mozambican dance new music. It was developed within Maputo, the capital area of Mozambique, earlier known as Laurenco Marques.

Mazurka - is a Gloss folk dance around triple meter which includes a lively tempo, that contain a heavy accent in the third or minute beat. It is always seen to have either a triplet, trill, dotted 8th note pair, and ordinary eighth take note pair before a few quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the domestic popular dance beats of Senegal. Sanctioned fusion of well-known dance musics with the West such as jazz, soul, Latin, together with rock blended by using sabar, the traditional drumming and dance audio of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a type of South African popular music with rural Zulu roots that is constantly on the influence musicians around the globe today. The type was originated in earlier 1960s.

Mbube : is a form of To the south African vocal new music, made famous by way of the South African set Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The word mbube suggests "lion" in Zulu

Merengue - is often a type of lively, pleased music and move that comes from your Dominican Republic

Morna - is a type of Cape Verdean music, related to Colonial fado, Brazilian modinha, Argentinian tango, and additionally Angolan lament.

Museve - is a preferred Zimbabwe music variety. Artists include Simon Chimbetu and Alick Macheso

Oldies -- term commonly used to explain a radio framework that usually concentrates on Prime 40 music through the '50s, '60s in addition to '70s. Oldies can even be from R&B, soda and rock beats genres.

Pop : is an ample along with imprecise category of current music not classified by artistic issues to consider but by her potential audience and also prospective market.

Quadrille - is a old dance performed by way of four couples within a square formation, some sort of precursor to classic square dancing. It is additionally a style of audio.

R&B - can be a popular music sort combining jazz, gospel, and blues impacts, first performed just by African American artists.

Rai - is a version of folk music, started in Oran, Algeria out of Bedouin shepherds, blended with Spanish, French, Camera and Arabic music forms, which goes back to the 1930s and has now been primarily grown by women inside culture.

Ragga -- is a sub-genre associated with dancehall music or even reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic digital music; sampling regularly serves a leading role in raggamuffin music as well.

Rep - is the rhythmic singing delivery from rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hiphop music and lifestyle.

Rara - is mostly a form of festival popular music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week.

Reggae : is a music category first developed inside Jamaica in the tardy 1960s. A particular new music style that all began following on the progress of ska together with rocksteady. Reggae is dependent on a rhythm trend characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, called the skank.

Reggaeton - is a type of urban music which unfortunately became popular with Latina American youth over the early 1990s. While it began with Panama, Reggaeton combines Jamaican music showing of reggae and additionally dancehall with people of Latin The united states, such as bomba, plena, merengue, and bachata as well as that of reggae and Electronica.

Small gravel - is a variety of popular music which has a prominent vocal beat accompanied by guitar, percussion, and bass. Several styles of rock beats also use keys instruments such as body, piano, synthesizers.

Rumba - is a category of music rhythms in addition to dance styles that will originated in Africa along with were introduced to be able to Cuba and the " new world " by African slaves.

Salegy - can be described as popular type of Afropop styles exported with Madagascar. This Sub-Saharan African folk audio dance originated along with the Malagasy language with Madagascar, Southern Photography equipment.

Salsa - is often a diverse and mainly Spanish Caribbean type that is popular all over Latin America together with among Latinos in foreign countries.

Samba - is among the most most popular forms of popular music in Brazil. It happens to be widely viewed as Brazil's national musical form.

Sega - is really an evolved combination of conventional Music of Seychelles, Mauritian and Réunionnais music with Western european dance music enjoy polka and quadrilles.

Seggae - can be a music genre devised in the mid 1980s by the Mauritian Rasta singer, Joseph Reginald Topize who was from time to time known as Kaya, after having a song title as a result of Bob Marley. Seggae is a fusion involving sega from the tropical island country, Mauritius, and additionally reggae.

Semba -- is a traditional version of music from the Southern-African country of Angola. Semba is the precursor to a variety of new music styles originated from Cameras, of which three of the very famous are Samba (from Brazil), Kizomba (Angolan style of beats derived directly because of Zouk music) in addition to Kuduro (or Kuduru, energetic, fast-paced Angolan Techno music, to speak).

Shona New music - is the audio of the Shona families of Zimbabwe. There are plenty of different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho along with drumming. Very often, the following music will be in conjunction with dancing, and response by the audience.

Ska - is a popular music genre that arose in Jamaica in the later part of the 1950s and has been a precursor to help rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined factors of Caribbean mento together with calypso with North american jazz and cycle and blues.

Impede Jam - is normally a song with the R&B-influenced melody. Poor jams are commonly R&B ballads or just downtempo songs. The term is usually most commonly reserved meant for soft-sounding songs using heavily emotional or simply romantic lyrical subject material.

Soca - is mostly a form of dance new music that originated in Trinidad from calypso. This combines the melodic lilting sound associated with calypso with insistent (usually electronic with recent music) percussion.

Soukous - can be described as musical genre which originated in the two adjoining countries of Belgian Congo and The french language Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has accomplished popularity throughout The african continent.

Soul - is often a music genre this combines rhythm and additionally blues and gospel music, originating in the country.

Taarab - can be a music genre famous in Tanzania. It truly is influenced by beats from the cultures using a historical presence within East Africa, which include music from Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Photography equipment, North Africa, the center East and The eu. Taarab rose to help you prominence in 1928 with the rise with the genre's first legend, Siti binti Saad.

Tango - is mostly a style of music of which originated among Eu immigrant populations from Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played out by a sextet, termed the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, in addition to two bandoneons.

Waka - is a widely used Islamic-oriented Yoruba audio genre. It was pioneered and made well-known by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu, who took a genre into the well-known Nigerian music simply by playing it in concerts and people; also, she had been the first waka performer to record a great album.

Wassoulou : is a genre with West African preferred music, named following your region of Wassoulou. It is performed primarily by women, applying lyrics that home address women's issues concerning childbearing, fertility along with polygamy.

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19 Moon tickets strong; anything over $100k per share and I walk away with almost a million pounds, and only an idiot sells at $100k; when a limited supply commodity faces a immense demand for a minimum of two times more of the commodity than actually exists, from a buyer who has a budget of at least 20 billion dollars per shorting hedgefund, a backer in Citadel Securities with a budget of over a trillion dollars, and when they get taken out it falls to the DTCC (who are insured to 70 trillion dollars) means that $1,000,000 per share is not a meme, but instead a discount from the functionally infinite money such a commodity is worth.

But, I’m a relatively well off ape (poor by western standards, but having a Zimbabwean girlfriend makes you realise just how rich you are) - who can afford to blow several thousand pounds on this; if I lose 100%, then I go back to my boring day job and start all over again.

There’s other apes out there, apes who’ve been buying fractional shares until they only have their one share, or maybe two.

It is those apes who I’m holding for.

$1,000,000 per share after taxes for US apes is roughly $1,500,000 per share. For me, with UK tax rules and fees and all that jazz, 19 shares at $1,500,000 means I actually walk away with £6,000,000. That is a lot of money. More than I could spend, honestly. So, why hold to that point? Why not just quit the game at $200k per share instead?

The answer is simple.

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And ape no fight ape. I can’t guarantee that the one share apes will get a million dollars after tax; but the longer I hold, the better their chances are.

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Like many great jazz originals liberated by the idiom’s openness to all manner of borrowings and hybrids, the Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mulatu Astatke created a new sound by unlikely alchemy – between the Latin grooves and jazz-rock wah-wah guitars he heard as a student in the States in the 60s, and the wide-interval modes and fluid rhythms of his homeland’s ancient traditions. Astatke’s seductive “Ethio-jazz” fusions have made him a global-jazz star since his rediscovery after midlife obscurity by French producer Francis Falceto in the late 1990s.

Astatke’s partners since have unexpectedly included some of the UK’s most original free-jazz players, but in recent years the band best attuned to his ancient-to-modern sensibility has been Melbourne’s Black Jesus Experience, a collective of singers, rappers, and jazz improvisers of Moroccan, Zimbabwean, Maori, Ethiopian and Australian origins.

Astatke and band build up a mesmerizing Ethio-jazz rhythmic bed that moves the body while Monk and stunning BJE vocalist Enushu Taye address the heart and mind. She’s lithe and weightless on the nimble “Lijay” and stirring on the title track. But the centerpiece “Living on Stolen Land” is clearly her standout performance. “I got away with that bloody murder,” she sings again and again, detached at first but revealing new worry and pain with each repetition, finally getting to the brutal chorus of “Ain’t it grand?/ Living on stolen land?” The 10-minute piece ranges from brooding and fiery to calm, showing how Astatke and BJE follow one another almost telepathically. Lyrically inspired and musically assured, To Know Without Knowing, continues to expand the parameters of what Ethio-jazz can be in the 21st century, proving—as Monk puts it at one point—“Music a levitating force, of course.”

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Music Genres

This is a list of some of the world's music genre and their definitions.

African Folk - Music held to be typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of its society, and preserved usually by oral tradition.

Afro jazz - Refers to jazz music which has been heavily influenced by African music. The music took elements of marabi, swing and American jazz and synthesized this into a unique fusion. The first band to really achieve this synthesis was the South African band Jazz Maniacs.

Afro-beat - Is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.

Afro-Pop - Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound, but is used as a general term to describe African popular music.

Apala - Originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a percussion-based style that developed in the late 1930s, when it was used to wake worshippers after fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Assiko - is a popular dance from the South of Cameroon. The band is usually based on a singer accompanied with a guitar, and a percussionnist playing the pulsating rhythm of Assiko with metal knives and forks on an empty bottle.

Batuque - is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.

Bend Skin - is a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music. Kouchoum Mbada is the most well-known group associated with the genre.

Benga - Is a musical genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.

Biguine - is a style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century. By combining the traditional bele music with the polka, the black musicians of Martinique created the biguine, which comprises three distinct styles, the biguine de salon, the biguine de bal and the biguines de rue.

Bikutsi - is a musical genre from Cameroon. It developed from the traditional styles of the Beti, or Ewondo, people, who live around the city of Yaounde.

Bongo Flava - it has a mix of rap, hip hop, and R&B for starters but these labels don't do it justice. It's rap, hip hop and R&B Tanzanian style: a big melting pot of tastes, history, culture and identity.

Cadence - is a particular series of intervals or chords that ends a phrase, section, or piece of music.

Calypso - is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad at about the start of the 20th century. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of African slaves, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song.

Chaabi - is a popular music of Morocco, very similar to the Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga - is a Zimbabwean popular music genre coined by and popularised by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word for struggle.

Chouval Bwa - features percussion, bamboo flute, accordion, and wax-paper/comb-type kazoo. The music originated among rural Martinicans.

Christian Rap - is a form of rap which uses Christian themes to express the songwriter's faith.

Coladeira - is a form of music in Cape Verde. Its element ascends to funacola which is a mixture of funanáa and coladera. Famous coladera musicians includes Antoninho Travadinha.

Contemporary Christian - is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

Country - is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.

Dance Hall - is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, with exponents such as Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also known as bashment. The style is characterized by a deejay singing and toasting (or rapping) over raw and danceable music riddims.

Disco - is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs in the mid-1970s.

Folk - in the most basic sense of the term, is music by and for the common people.

Freestyle - is a form of electronic music that is heavily influenced by Latin American culture.

Fuji - is a popular Nigerian musical genre. It arose from the improvisation Ajisari/were music tradition, which is a kind of Muslim music performed to wake believers before dawn during the Ramadan fasting season.

Funana - is a mixed Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the lower part of the body movement is African, and the upper part Portuguese.

Funk - is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.

Gangsta rap - is a subgenre of hip-hop music which developed during the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a variation on the spelling of 'gangster'. After the popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap became the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip-hop.

Genge - is a genre of hip hop music that had its beginnings in Nairobi, Kenya. The name was coined and popularized by Kenyan rapper Nonini who started off at Calif Records. It is a style that incorporates hip hop, dancehall and traditional African music styles. It is commonly sung in Sheng(slung),Swahili or local dialects.

Gnawa - is a mixture of African, Berber, and Arabic religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and acrobatic dancing. The music is both a prayer and a celebration of life.

Gospel - is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.

Highlife - is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and spread to Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the 1920s and other West African countries.

Hip-Hop - is a style of popular music, typically consisting of a rhythmic, rhyming vocal style called rapping (also known as emceeing) over backing beats and scratching performed on a turntable by a DJ.

House - is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco.

Indie - is a term used to describe genres, scenes, subcultures, styles and other cultural attributes in music, characterized by their independence from major commercial record labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

Instrumental - An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments.

Isicathamiya - is an a cappella singing style that originated from the South African Zulus.

Jazz - is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions.

Jit - is a style of popular Zimbabwean dance music. It features a swift rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar.

Juju - is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. It evolved in the 1920s in urban clubs across the countries. The first jùjú recordings were by Tunde King and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s.

Kizomba - is one of the most popular genres of dance and music from Angola. Sung generally in Portuguese, it is a genre of music with a romantic flow mixed with African rhythm.

Kwaito - is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples which are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or chanted rather than sung or rapped.

Kwela - is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It evolved from the marabi sound and brought South African music to international prominence in the 1950s.

Lingala - Soukous (also known as Soukous or Congo, and previously as African rumba) is a musical genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s

Makossa - is a type of music which is most popular in urban areas in Cameroon. It is similar to soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. It originated from a type of Duala dance called kossa, with significant influences from jazz, ambasse bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - a kind of music imported to Tunisia from Andalusia after the Spanish conquest in the 15th century.

Mapouka - also known under the name of Macouka, is a traditional dance from the south-east of the Ivory Coast in the area of Dabou, sometimes carried out during religious ceremonies.

Maringa - is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso.

Marrabenta - is a form of Mozambican dance music. It was developed in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, formerly Laurenco Marques.

Mazurka - is a Polish folk dance in triple meter with a lively tempo, containing a heavy accent on the third or second beat. It is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note pair, or ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the national popular dance music of Senegal. It is a fusion of popular dance musics from the West such as jazz, soul, Latin, and rock blended with sabar, the traditional drumming and dance music of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a style of South African music with rural Zulu roots that continues to influence musicians worldwide today. The style was originated in the early 1960s.

Mbube - is a form of South African vocal music, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The word mbube means "lion" in Zulu

Merengue - is a type of lively, joyful music and dance that comes from the Dominican Republic

Morna - is a genre of Cape Verdean music, related to Portuguese fado, Brazilian modinha, Argentinian tango, and Angolan lament.

Museve - is a popular Zimbabwe music genre. Artists include Simon Chimbetu and Alick Macheso

Oldies - term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres.

Pop - is an ample and imprecise category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations but by its potential audience or prospective market.

Quadrille - is a historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square dancing. It is also a style of music.

R&B - is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.

Rai - is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

Ragga - is a sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music; sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music as well.

Rap - is the rhythmic singing delivery of rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hip hop music and culture.

Rara - is a form of festival music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week.

Reggae - is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. A particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank.

Reggaeton - is a form of urban music which became popular with Latin American youth during the early 1990s. Originating in Panama, Reggaeton blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba, plena, merengue, and bachata as well as that of hip hop and Electronica.

Rock - is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, synthesizers.

Rumba - is a family of music rhythms and dance styles that originated in Africa and were introduced to Cuba and the New World by African slaves.

Salegy - is a popular type of Afropop styles exported from Madagascar. This Sub-Saharan African folk music dance originated with the Malagasy language of Madagascar, Southern Africa.

Salsa - is a diverse and predominantly Spanish Caribbean genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad.

Samba - is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. It is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style.

Sega - is an evolved combination of traditional Music of Seychelles,Mauritian and Réunionnais music with European dance music like polka and quadrilles.

Seggae - is a music genre invented in the mid 1980s by the Mauritian Rasta singer, Joseph Reginald Topize who was sometimes known as Kaya, after a song title by Bob Marley. Seggae is a fusion of sega from the island country, Mauritius, and reggae.

Semba - is a traditional type of music from the Southern-African country of Angola. Semba is the predecessor to a variety of music styles originated from Africa, of which three of the most famous are Samba (from Brazil), Kizomba (Angolan style of music derived directly from Zouk music) and Kuduro (or Kuduru, energetic, fast-paced Angolan Techno music, so to speak).

Shona Music - is the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. There are several different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho and drumming. Very often, this music will be accompanied by dancing, and participation by the audience.

Ska - is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.

Slow Jam - is typically a song with an R&B-influenced melody. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or just downtempo songs. The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content.

Soca - is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad from calypso. It combines the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent (usually electronic in recent music) percussion.

Soukous - is a musical genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa.

Soul - is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music, originating in the United States.

Taarab - is a music genre popular in Tanzania. It is influenced by music from the cultures with a historical presence in East Africa, including music from East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Taarab rose to prominence in 1928 with the rise of the genre's first star, Siti binti Saad.

Tango - is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons.

Waka - is a popular Islamic-oriented Yoruba musical genre. It was pioneered and made popular by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu, who took the genre into the mainstream Nigerian music by playing it at concerts and parties; also, she was the first waka singer to record an album.

Wassoulou - is a genre of West African popular music, named after the region of Wassoulou. It is performed mostly by women, using lyrics that address women's issues regarding childbearing, fertility and polygamy.

Ziglibithy - is a style of Ivorian popular music that developed in the 1970s. It was the first major genre of music from the Ivory Coast. The first major pioneer of the style was Ernesto Djedje.

Zouglou - is a dance oriented style of music from the Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) that first evolved in the 1990s. It started with students (les parents du Campus) from the University of Abidjan HasenChat Music.

Zouk - is a style of rhythmic music originating from the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. It has its roots in kompa music from Haiti, cadence music from Dominica, as popularised by Grammacks and Exile One.

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30 Days of Iconic Zimbabwean Jazz: BP Yangu Yakwira by Jazz Invitation

30 Days of Iconic Zimbabwean Jazz: BP Yangu Yakwira by Jazz Invitation

Jazz Invitation aka JI is an outfit with a reputable stature in jazz circles in Zimbabwe. Formed in 2007, it was dubbed as the country’s foremost jazz and life injecting band. The release of the band’s first album ushered the ensemble into stardom. The band shared stages with some of the greatest world-acclaimed jazz artists such as Miriam Makeba, Kunle Ayo and Randy Crowford amongst others. The…