Dolce Vita Africana!

Hope BBC iPlayer's film on Malian photographer Malik Sadibe is still available. If not then try the archives. Insightful, humorous and enjoyable, it takes you on a visual and musical journey of Sadibe's work. Covering political and social change, all in the eye of his camera.

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If not for you then pass it on or at least just enjoy the music! 4 days left.

BAMAKO! BAMAKO!!!!

Enjoy!
N.B. View the photos in PicLens for awesome shots!

Miami Nice Yeah Twice :-)

Spam AllStars Miami New Year's 07/08

Add to My Profile | More Videos Yeah sorry for the poor quality, but only had my poxy phone with me at the time and was enjoying the night not out to do a reportage, but just had to take a memento. Seems like the guys had some heavy new tracks and the bass was off the scale.

Goes well with mojitos too..

:)

Young Lewis pon di Riddim!!!

Yes gwaan young Lewis. Michael Scumacher eat your heart out! F1 will never be the same! :-)

2008 is ours!
MC Hammer style!
More party.

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Lucky Dube - 'Jah Jah Son' Dies

Sad to hear early this morning about the sudden death of one of `South Africa's favourite sons. Lucky Dube was killed in a car-jacking after dropping his children off in Johannesburg around 8pm on Thursday evening.

Much loved by his fellow South Africans, I'm sure he will be thought of at tomorrow's world cup Rugby final against England.

For me Dube was one of those many African artists who adopted Jamaican reggae music as their own and helped spread the true message of reggae across the continent. By doing so, they inadvertently helped bridge the gap between Jamaica and the motherland, Africa.

Born outside Johannesburg in 1964, Dube was named "Lucky" by his mother because he was the first child to be born after several failed pregnancies.

Dube started singing in 1982, joining a band playing Mbaqanga, or traditional Zulu music. It was only later that he began recording reggae tracks as a solo singer, but the genre was to dominate and define the remainder of his career.

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Feeling those L.A. Nights

Been spending quite a bit of time of late checking my RSS feeds and enjoying the beauty of music casts. Saves trawling around, when everything is all in one neat little place. Listening to one cast from Warrior FM I came across the name of Yasuko Agawa. A classy Jazz vocalist from the 80s for those who don't know, she had recorded one of my favorourite tracks, L.A. Nights. I did a quick search as I had never read up on her before and discovered she had quite a comprehensive body of work, spanning three decades.

I found a copy of L.A. Nights on YouTube and as soon as I played it, the memories came flooding back. I recall as a teenager back then, that I didn't know too much about Japan or L.A., but the words of her song always conjured up moody images of sophisticated cross-Pacific travel that I could only dream of at the time. Even though I had never experienced that world, I understood instantly at the time, and was right there in the taxi with her, just in from Tokyo. I never imagined at the time that Japan would feature so significantly in my life.