Afro Fusion songs | Indie Shuffle

Sounds like: Tinariwen, Chiwoniso

Time remains constant. Yet music creation expands at a rate faster than we are able to increase our median life expectancy. That means we'll never be ...

Oumou Sangaré

Kamelemba

Sounds like: Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Baaba Maal, Batuk, Mikael Seifu, Manthe Ribane

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Well, well, well, if it isn't East African music again! Recently, we have met all too often. I hear it on the streets, I hear it on the internet, I he...

Mikael Seifu

Tuff Ruff

Sounds like: Tchobari, Burial, Four Tet

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Today was the first time I thought to actually look up who Mikael Seifu is, because let's be honest, his music deserves more than just my usual, sarca...

Broadway Sounds

Sing It Again

Sounds like: Fela Kuti, tUnE-yArDs, The Go! Team

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If you need a musical kick-start this week, Melbourne's Broadway Sounds has one bound to get you going again. Having already caught our attention with...

Fantasma

The Mountain (Mujava, Spoko, Spoek Mathambo Remix)

Sounds like: Sonido Gallo Negro, Capullo, Super Guachin

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Noura Mint Seymali

Tzenni

Sounds like: Angelique Kidjo, Goat, Tinariwen

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Africa may have found its latest female singing star, and she comes from Mauritania. Noura Mint Seymali is a name you aren't likely to have heard, b...

Tinariwen

Chaghaybou

Sounds like: Bombino, Ali Farka Touré, Santana

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Tinariwen's story has become something of a modern musical legend. As a band of Tuareg bedouins from the Malian portion of the Sahara desert in northw...

Mokoomba

Njoka

Sounds like: Bhundu Boys, Buena Vista Social Club, Malawi Mouse Boys

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Just like their Zimbabwean predecessors, Mokoomba are making waves in the western world, and it isn't tricky to see why. In the case of the Bhundu Bo...