{"id":41003,"date":"2020-01-31T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/7-albums-you-need-to-hear-this-week\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:12","slug":"albums-31-01-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/albums-31-01-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"7 albums you need to hear this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this week selection:\u00a0David Walters’ electro-creole 2.0 album, Gqom Oh! compilation dedicated to the prodigy Citizen Boy, new long-format opus by the one and only Lil Wayne and\u00a0more to hear this week.<\/h4>\n

Photo:\u00a0Ingrid Mareski<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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After many years of exploring the land of music, David Walters is back with a new solo album.\u00a0Soleil Kr\u00e9yol<\/i>\u00a0carries within it all David’s electro-creole 2.0 experiences with an unstoppable groove. Multi-instrumentalist, DJ, one-man band, producer and globetrotter, David Walters evoked an aura of constant movement.\u00a0His new album features offspring of David Walters’ extended musical family, including singer C\u00e9lia Wa, cellist Vincent Segal and trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf, “fellow travellers who have inspired me a lot,” says Walters.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From Avoca Hills to the World<\/em><\/h4>\n
Citizen Boy & Mafia Boyz<\/h5>\n

Gqom Oh! label dedicates its 11th release to young South African producer\u00a0Citizen Boy<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with 13 tracks produced between 2013 and 2019.\u00a0Founding member of the Boyz Mafia and now active member of Gqom Oh!,\u00a0Citizen Boy is\u00a0a staple of Durban and South Africa\u2019s electronic music scene.\u00a0\u00a0Influenced by house and kwaito, Citizen Boy draws inspiration from Zulu cultures to create a dark, raw and minimalist sound personality.\u00a0Celebrating both the debut of the label and the kids of Avoca Hills, this mixtape contains seven classics and six new tracks.\u00a0It\u2019s an\u00a0opportunity to return to the source while ensuring their primary mission; expose the\u00a0Durban\u00a0sound to an international audience.<\/p>\n

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Lil Wayne<\/h5>\n

Less than two years after Tha Carter V<\/em>, Lil Wayne\u00a0is back\u00a0with a new opus that features 24 tracks including\u00a0Jay Rock, Lil Baby, Big Sean, The-Dream, Adam Levine, among others.\u00a0Funeral<\/em>\u00a0is Lil Wayne\u2019s thirteenth album. Funeral<\/em> sounds much more on-trend with rap\u2019s current sound than previous offerings. Nonetheless, his long-time friend and collaborator Mannie Fresh appears on the production credit list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amewuga<\/i><\/h4>\n
Elom 20ce<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Between the traditional rhythms of the Gulf of Guinea, jazzy riffs and boom bap beats, Amewuga, the new album by the Togolese rapper, Elom 20ce, brings the human to center stage. Elom 20ce’s 4th solo project is singularly ambitious, using his powerful flow to remind us that “the human being has more value than material goods\u201d Amewuga – in ewe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Revolution (Live Disco Show In New-York)<\/em><\/h4>\n
Sidiku Buari<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City)<\/em>\u00a0is the fourth and final\u00a0BBE<\/a>\u00a0reissue of Sidiku Buari\u2019s unique and sought-after body of African disco albums.<\/p>\n

Revolution\u2019s\u00a0side 1\u00a0is (possibly!) live throughout, from a 1979 show at the (possibly mythical!) La Cheer Nightclub, NYC, but very well recorded for a live album with clean, bright top notes, sharp percussion and heavy basslines.<\/p>\n

Side 2 consists of four very varied tracks all recorded at Aire L.A. Studios, the two openers \u201cRevolution\u201d and \u201cTogether We Can Rebuild It (Ghana Motherland)\u201d being polemics against government and army corruption, and a battle-cry for Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, who ruled the country for a brief period in 1979 when this recording was made.\u00a0Side 2 also rounds off with the super-heavy afrobeat-disco groover, \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70<\/em><\/h4>\n
Various Artists<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70\u00a0<\/em>focuses on a wide selection of recordings made in Nigeria in the 1960s, a time when Apala music was at the height of its popularity.\u00a0Apala is popular music that also functioned as a form of cultural resistance\u2013Apala music involved no western instrumentation and is sung in the Yoruba language, its aesthetic an implicit cultural rejection of the British Empire\u2019s colonial rule over Nigeria which lasted from 1901 until independence in 1960.<\/p>\n

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The album unravels a story of liberation where the music of Africa, Europe and the Americas unify with a carefree spirit personified by a phrase the islanders use all the time: \u2018l\u00e9ve, l\u00e9ve\u2019 (\u2018take it easy\u2019).\u00a0From the mid-1970s, coinciding with independence from Portugal in 1975, the islands\u2019 groups featured an even stronger African influence and nowhere was that more apparent than with Africa Negra. This compilation shows how much S\u00e3o Tome & Principe has in common with other Lusophone countries and boasts a richly complex and idiosyncratic musical DNA.<\/p>\n

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