Or take DJ Hlo’s “Isibani,” built on a cloud of choral vocals and sparkling guitar, that feels as refreshing as an ocean wave in summer and as pure as a prayer in church.

This 1975 track is agitated from the jump, with twitchy, pulse-quickening guitar and haunted-house keyboards. Allen’s drumming is jittery and headlong and low to the ground.

It would be hard if not impossible to compile an Afrobeat Top Ten which was not wholly made up of Fela Anikulapo Kuti albums. Such was Kuti's centrality in the creation and development of Afrobeat, ...

By 2010, he'd decided to start his own Afrobeat orchestra in Phoenix and started assembling musicians as SB 1070 was making its way through the legislature. "I got a couple people together ...

Tony Allen, the pioneering drummer who helped define Afrobeat during his tenure with Fela Kuti, died Thursday evening. He was 79. “There was no band like the Africa ’70,” Femi Kuti, Fela’s ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — “Jewish Afrobeat” almost sounds like an oxymoron. In some ways, it is – Afrobeat, the groovy fusion of upbeat jazz and funk pioneered by Fela Kuti, was inspired in part by ...

Euforquestra: Explorations In Afrobeat album review by Chris M. Slawecki, published on January 8, 2007. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

She played acoustic guitar and shared stripped-down versions of the songs from her album, which really let the lyrics and the politics shine through.

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names The Swedish four-piece's debut album #3 mixes tinny Afrobeat guitar, polyrhythmic African highlife, skiffle and electronica with 1960s-influenced indie pop.

The world of Afrobeat music is explored and celebrated on Nu-Afrobeat Experience. Blending various genres of music, including jazz and electronica with African rhythms, the set serves as a ...