nice, added to the list 🙏🏻 edit: whew these genre tags already got me hard

real 👑

Spotify has that Éthiopiques comp

shouts Fela

this is hitting the spot rn RIP uncle hugh

u listen to any albums u can recommend? this one?

yeah, "home is where the music is" is certainly a jam. my favourite african album is youssou ndours immigrés. pitche mi is oozing with atmosphere, although im not sure if it translates just as well to people from other cultures, since as a gambian im closely connected to gambian and senegalese culture. Some of the synthesizing is somewhat amateurish but the vibe should be universal.

anyway some of my other favourite sub saharan african albums in alphabetical order:

Ata Kak - Obaa Sima
Boubacar Traore - Mariama
Celestine Ukwu - Ilo Abu Chi
Ebo Taylor - s/t
Etoile De Dakar - Volume 1
Etoile De Dakar - The Rough Guide To Youssou N'dour and Etoile De Dakar (Compilation)
Hugh Masekela - Home Is where the music is
Hugh Masekela - Hedzolleh Sounds
Fela Kuti - Zombies
Fel Kuti - Expensive S***
Franco & Rochereau - Omona Wapi
Guelewar - Touki Ba Banjul (Compilation)
King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice
Richard Bona _ Reverence
Toumani Diabaté - New Ancient Strings
Youssou N'dour - Immigres
Youssou N'Dour - Egypt ( Similar to Nicos Desertshore)

favourite songs (in no order):
Youssou N'dour - Pitche Mi
Youssou N'dour - Mahdiyu Laye
Youssou N'dour - Birima
Etoile De Dakar - El Hombre Misterioso Soy
Franco & Rochereau - Kabassele in Memoriam
Richard Bona - Reverence
Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
Fela Kuti - Water Me No Get Enemy
Boubacar Traore - Pierrette

wow you're awesome 🙌🏻 this is great, I was actually only asking about Masekela but this is even better. Gon work my way through those

I'm listening to Immigrés rn, loving it. Can definitely feel the vibes. Feels like a big family gathering outside in a warm summer night, with a campfire going ❤️

I didn't know you were African man that's rly cool. Didn't you use to be in the Fam thread too? Gambia looks like a p**** penetrating Senegal lol. Looks like Senegal (+ Gambia?) is one of the biggest culture hubs in Africa for sure, I at least know from films that some of the earliest and most influential African films are Senegalese. Did you see Atlantique on Netflix? That's a really amazing recent one

havent seen that one, yet. ive been slacking on african films tbh. black girl been on my watchlist for a while maybe ill watch tomorrow. thanks for the reminder

and yeah i was in the fam thread. i stopped posting too much in general cause i tend to get into stupid arguments. gotta say though, you were the coolest dude in the thread and some of the other members have been b****es to you.

Atlantique is by a female director too, Mati Diop, pretty rare thing in Africa too I think? Or is west africa less patriarchal than other parts? Anyway she's also related to the director of Touki Bouki and used to act in films by Claire Denis, a (white) French director who grew up in African countries and made some amazingly nuanced films about race tensions with white folk in Africa, Chocolat and White Material. Dunno if you know all that already, but Denis has become straight up one of my fav filmmakers over the last year and I'll evangelize wherever I can lol.

Also need to see Black Girl... Only just started to realize that I was completely ignorant of Africa recently, I already did some research but there's still a lot to see

And lol yeah I stopped posting in the Fam thread for the same reason. Energy is off in there, way too much aggression. I had a lot of fun arguing in there and tbh I actually think it made my English skills way better lol but it got redundant. I did also learn about a s***load of great music and film in there tho so s/o to those f***ers anyway. You're right they ended up being very b****y towards me. It was never like I took anything personal tho, whatever they were talking about didn't have much to do with who I am. The only thing that sometimes angered me is that I could never make them understand that fact, and eventually I just got too tired of explaining myself without anyone understanding.

On my third spin of Immigrés rn, this really is beautiful beautiful stuff

cant talk about the whole of Africa but it seems like Senegal and Gambia are some of the more tolerant african countries. still patriarchal as hell, my grandfather had 10 wives (for economic reasons) but it's getting better. artistic representation is pretty slim though, even female musicians are mostly just background singers.

ive seen beau travail a couple of times on letterboxd but i had no idea its set in Djibouti. Interesting.

10 wives that's wild

yeah beau travail is a classic. French soldiers misplaced in that continent without anything to do just working out and turning gay. It's her visual language which makes the films so beautiful tho. I can really recommend every single one. She was an assistant to Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch b4 making her own films which gives you a bit of an idea, she has a sensuality about her films which none of them have though.

you have letterboxd! follow me, I'll follow back
letterboxd.com/beflygelt
do u have a rym account too?

yeah, but i dont rate films or music anymore. i just mark my favourite films as a reference point. my rym profile is irrelevant though, i only use it for the charts and lists.
rateyourmusic.com/~Kingstontown

i will definitely check her out.

some good s*** among your favourite movies. i see a nice overlap between our tastes, although youve probably seen much more movies than i have.

damn that's sad, we need more users on rym who are knowledgeable about African music! I love seeing friend's ratings on there, and lb too. I respect not digging the system tho.

Soupy is also on rym btw, and also on lb with that same name
rateyourmusic.com/~Soupvillain

just looked through your logs too, pretty much exclusively heat definitely a very carefully selected set of films. You saw Pickup on South Street recently? That's a good one, one of my fav noirs

it was pretty fun and im usually not much of a noir guy

I'm writing on Twin Peaks as a noir atm for my film studies course. S*** ton of work lol, not as easy to pin down as in other Lynch films. I love noir because they're really creative and unusual films for the period, but I've come to the theory that eventually the thing which makes a noir a noir is cynicism, and that's not my worldview at all.

I made a list too but I'll need to update it soon, didn't do that in ages.
letterboxd.com/beflygelt/list/exploring-the-dark-favorite-noir-neo-noir
I can definitely recommend Inherent Vice, very underrated PTA. I've since fallen in love with Pynchon and I'm reading the book too now, good s***

noir is a pretty big genre. i love a lot of movies from that list. wasn't even thinking of stuff like twin peaks and videodrome as noir, just because they're less conventional. was mostly talking about these classic crime stories from the 40s and so on, like the bogart films. never really got into them. inherent vice seems more like my type.

back on topic, the Nigeria 70 comp is hard af. Listened to this song in particular like a thousand times

there's also an 80s comp with "Only You" I listened to a bit

would appreciate names for the folks in op btw @Kingstontown

Fela Kuti
Youssou N'dour & Peter Gabriel (Gabriel produced one of his albums)
Sade
Ata Kak
King Sunny Adé

Damn I guess I should have known Fela and Sade, but just never really peeped pics. Thx!

Btw I'm again on like my fourth listen in a row of Immigrés 🔥 vibes for quarantine time are permanently saved 🙏🏻

oh wow Youssou worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto too that's amazing 😍 actually sounds amazing too

i wish i had some smoke for this