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Free is the second studio album by English rock band Free, recorded and released in 1969. It saw the burgeoning of the songwriting partnership between Paul Rodgers and 16-year-old bassist Andy Fraser; eight of the nine songs are credited to the two. The album performed poorly, failing to chart in the UK and in the US. [2]
Free broke up in 1971 due to tensions between members of the band. [1] In September, the group's first live album Free Live! was released, reaching number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and number 89 on the Billboard 200. [3] [6] The non-album single "My Brother Jake", released the same year, peaked at number 4 in the UK. [4]
The album was initiated by Sahel Sounds, a Portland-based record label founded in 2009 that specializes in music from the southern part of the Sahara desert. As a way to accurately unveil songs popular amongst local West African residents to audiences abroad, the music was digitally extracted off cellular phone memory cards containing stored ...
Nqaba Yam is the sixth and final studio album by the South Africa singer Zahara, released on August 13, 2021, by Warner Music South Africa.The album is a follow-up to her fifth studio album, Mgodi (2017), the album explores themes such as love, faith, exploitation, media criticism, and social issues.
The album featured several prominent African acts, including Naira Marley, Sarkodie, Busiswa as well as labelmates Ibraah and Anjella. Also featured was the Tanzanian Singeli singer Sholo Mwamba . It marked a departure from the feature-heavy Afro-East as it had fewer features, with most songs helmed by Harmonize alone.
"Skokiaan" was originally composed and first recorded as a sax and trumpet instrumental by the "African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia" (the police band of the country now called Zimbabwe) under the leadership of August Musarurwa possibly in 1947 (anthropologist David B. Coplan seems to be the sole source for this date).
Tyla is introducing much of the world to amapiano, a fusion of Kwaito house music and jazz NEW YORK (AP) […] The post Tyla, South Africa’s amapiano angel, manifests stardom in debut album ...
Tishoumaren (ⵜⵉⵛⵓⵎⴰⵔⴻⵏ in Neo-Tifinagh script) or assouf, [1] internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa. Critics describe the music as a fusion of blues and rock music with Tuareg, Malian or North African music. [2]