RemixAfrica
This program was created by curator Floyd Webb as Black World Cinema's contribution to the Spotlight Africa Section of the 2015 Chicago International Film Festival. Spotlight Africa: African Music Videos, was an exciting showcase of videos created by a new generation of directors and musicians that celebrate the vibrant sounds coming out of the continent.
Africa remains an amazing continent, with all of it vast mineral and material resources, includes the richness of it’s compelling music resonating most loudly around the globe.
With a new generation of African musicians this second decade into the 21st century, we see once again, Africasemper aliquid novi, “there is always something new out of Africa.
The music video is an old forum resurrected for African musicians and filmmakers due to the proliferation of digital technologies for sound and image. Some of the videos in this program represent a hybridization of hip-hop and Rhythm and Blues, and some reflect the intense cultural pride of musicians who’s lineage in musicianship can be traced back 1000 years.
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Viviane - Kumu Neexul
Viviane - Kumu Neexul
Viviane Ndour (born Viviane Chidid) is a Senegalese pop singer. She is known by some as the "Queen of Mbalax. Ndour was born in Mbour, Senegal, one of the coastal cities near the Atlantic Ocean.
Her father is from Lebanon and her mother is from Mauritania. Her grandmo...
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Blitz the Ambassador - Shine (prod IAMNOBODI)
Blitz the Ambassador
Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Blitz the Ambassador grew up to the sounds of Afro-Beat, Highlife, Jazz, and Motown. But when his older brother introduced him to Public Enemy's classic album, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, as a young boy, he was changed f...
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Timbuktu: Fatoumata Diawara & Amine Bouhafa
Fatoumata Diawara & Amine Bouhafa
Fatoumata Diawara (born 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a Malian musician currently living in France. Born in Côte d'Ivoire to Malian parents, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting, appearing in Cheick Oumar Sissoko's 1999 feature film La Genèse and Dani Kouyaté's po... -
SPOEK MATHAMBO - CONTROL
Spoek Mathambo
Spoek Mathambo (born Nthato Mokgata 14 May 1985 in South Africa) is an artist, producer, singer-songwriter, rapper defined by his fusion of a wide array of musical influences and his coining the Township Tech, to describe the electronic music he produces.
Mathambo grew up in ...
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Fatoumata Diawara - Clandestin
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MUTHONI THE DRUMMER QUEEN- NAI NI YA WHO
MUTHONI THE DRUMMER QUEEN
Nairobi born and raised singer, songwriter, flow-poet, creative and social entrepreneur, Muthoni The Drummer Queen aka BaussLady, already poised to become a leading presence in the world of entertainment and social development. -
SIJI - Ijo (Official Video)
Siji
Born in London to Nigerian émigrés, Siji is a producer, songwriter and artist. His own cultural heritage combined with the political and social movements of the age, exposed young Siji to the insurgent, politicized music of the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and Juju king, Sunny Ade, as well as ... -
Coumba gawlo - lamb dji
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Just A Band - Ha-He
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Fifi the RaiBlaster - Hearts a Mess - (Blues Lee mix)
Fifi the Rai Blaster
It is hard to describe the musician that is Fifi.
Currently a resident of Pretoria, South Africa, Fifi was Introduced to the likes of Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, Hancock, Sun ra and Fela Kuti by her uncle Raymond Motau (The percussionist for the... -
Coumba gawlo - lamb dji
Coumba Gawlo
Coumba Gawlo is a Senegalese artist who combines traditional griot structures in modern recording approaches. She was born as Coumba Seck in 1972 and has issued recordings made in Senegal and in France since 1990. -
Fifi the Rai Blaster - Light
Fifi the Rai Blaster
It is hard to describe the musician that is Fifi.
Currently a resident of Pretoria, South Africa, Fifi was Introduced to the likes of Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, Hancock, Sun ra and Fela Kuti by her uncle Raymond Motau (The percussionist for the... -
Lagos Lullabye Acoustic Version
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Last Years Tragedy - March From the Underground Official Video
Last Year’s Tragedy
Last Year’s Tragedy is a band from Nairobi, Kenya. The gang met in university and were brought together by their common musical interests. In a country where there are very few rock bands, not to mention heavy ones, it was initially difficult for the band to break through. LY... -
AfroCubism documentary
Afro-Cubism
Initially, World Circuit Records' producer Nick Gold had planned for Cooder and the Cubans to be joined by lute player Bassekou Kouyate and guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, two of Mali's finest musicians. At the last minute, the Malians were unable to secure visas to travel to Cuba for ... -
Ibrahim Ferrer - Perfidia
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Conjunto Sorpresa, Orquesta Chepin-Choven and Afro-Cuban All Stars. Later in life, Ferrer became a member of the internatio... -
Daara J Family - Bayi Yoon
Daara J Family
Daara J Family, (which means "the school" in Wolof) are a Senegalese rap duo that consists of N'Dongo D and Faada Freddy. Their music takes influence from hip hop, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and reggae and is performed in English, French, Spanish, and Wolof. -
BASEMENT JAXX - Rock This Road-HD
Dynamic UK dance duo Basement Jaxx colourful video for their single "Rock This Road." The track comes from their Junto CD and features vocals from London-based indie-reggae singer Shakka.
In the video, Lord Marqod (the interstellar god of dance, obviously) "approaches a lonely planet to har...
