{"id":41474,"date":"2019-09-13T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/8-albums-you-need-to-hear-this-week\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:11:17","slug":"8-albums-you-need-to-hear-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/8-albums-you-need-to-hear-this-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"8 albums you need to hear this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s selection: Elza Soares’ dirty samba, Sampa The Great debut album, an unreleased album of Ghana highlife star Ebo Taylor, Ahmad Jamal’s\u00a0new album and much more to hear this week.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Sampa the Great\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The Return<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

Sampa The Great creates a sense of home on her debut album – \u201cThe Return\u201d. A characterful record, its reference points range from classic hip-hop to ancient Southern African sounds. Built on four years of personal and musical soul-searching, it\u2019s an assured statement, the product of meaningful musical connections and of Sampa having to redefine her self-identity away from the comforts of family and old friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elza Soares\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
Planeta Fome<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Tireless advocate of the women\u2019s rights, and loud activist for the Afro-Brazilian culture,\u00a0legend\u00a0Elza Soares\u00a0released her 34th studio album with\u00a0Planeta Fome\u00a0<\/em>via Desk Records.\u00a0The new album features notable artists from Soares\u2019 native country, such as veteran rapper BNeg\u00e3o and rising artist Rafael Mike. On the single \u201cLiberta\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d the diva invites Brazilian vocalist\u00a0Virg\u00ednia Rodrigues and afro-futuristic band BaianaSystem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"arabstazy<\/span><\/p>\n

Arabstazy<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
Under Frustration Vol\u200b.\u200b2<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

The multidisciplinary Tunisian collective Arabstazy dedicated to the inter-connection between heritage, identity, culture, and digital arts in the Arab world, returns with the second volume of the compilation series Under Frustration, released by InFin\u00e9 & Shouka. This project led by Mettani imposes itself as a manifesto of a <\/span>nouvelle vague<\/span><\/i> of the Arab underground futurism, by representing its diversity and deconstructing the occidental stereotypes which fantasize about a culturally homogeneous Arab world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ebo<\/span><\/p>\n

Ebo Taylor\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
Palaver<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

If Fela Kuti was the king of Nigerian Afrobeat, then Ebo Taylor, 83 and still playing hard, is the king of Ghana Funky-Highlife. No doubt whatsoever.\u00a0 The long-lost, previously unreleased 1980, album Palaver is now reedited by BBE Music under record label collection Tabansi.\u00a0<\/span>Agreed on a one-album session to be released exclusively on Tabansi, while on a club tour of Nigeria with his regular touring band, Ebo bumped into Chief Tabansi of Tabansi Records, but for reasons that no-one (including Ebo) can now fully recall, the master tapes got shelved in a dusty backroom in Tabansi\u2019s Onitsha HQ.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmad Jamal\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Ballades<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

Featuring three original compositions alongside three duets with long-time collaborator the bassist James Cammack, <\/span>Ballades<\/span><\/i> also includes also a solo version of <\/span>\u201cPoinciana\u201d<\/span><\/i>, recorded between takes during the session for <\/span>Marseille.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Jamal\u2019s new album is a French-inspired love letter to his past, the legend said. With over a career that stretches seven decades, the pianist continues to deeply mark his time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"abdullah<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdullah Ibrahim\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dream Time\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Balance<\/em> was the major return for genuine living jazz legend after five years of silence. Born under the apartheid regime, where jazz music was seen as an act of resistance, his music is often referred to as representing freedom. Now, at the age of 84, the Cape Town-born jazzman Abdullah Ibrahim, also known as Dollar Brand, releases his second album in less than three months this year. Unusually,\u00a0Ibrahim entirely recorded\u00a0solo the 20 songs from the LP.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nyege Nyege<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Electro Acholi Kaboom from Northern Uganda<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Made from tracks recorded in the \u201900s, <\/span>Electro Acholi Kaboom from Northern Uganda <\/span><\/i>explore the birth of electronic acholi dance music in Northern Uganda.\u00a0<\/span>The compilation\u2019s tracks were originally recorded between 2003 and 2008 in various studios in the two cities, and feature renowned acholi vocalists including Otim Alpha, Bosmic Otim, Jeff Kornodo and Zing Zang & City Boy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lord<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord Echo<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Curiosities<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Soundway Records reissuing the second album in the trilogy from the in-demand New Zealand multi-instrumentalist and producer. Originally released in 2013, ‘Curiosities’ blends jazz with disco-tinged neo-soul, reggae and classic afro-beat in effortless manner – and joins the dots between the more downtempo first album \u2018Melodies\u2019 and the disco, electronic, club-ready sound of his third album \u2018Harmonies\u2019.\u00a0<\/span>The album also features a dub-funk cover of Pharoah Sanders’ “The Creator Has A Master Plan”, with vocals from Lisa Tomlins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s selection: Elza Soares’ dirty samba, Sampa The Great debut album, an unreleased album of Ghana highlife star Ebo Taylor, Ahmad Jamal’s\u00a0new album and much more to hear this week. Sampa the Great\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[8294,8326,8348],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41474"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41474"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}