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From there, the Sahel Sounds label puts out a lot of obscure and interesting music on Bandcamp.
I can recommend two films as well. The first is "Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai" (Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It), which is a Tuareg remake of Purple Rain, the first fiction movie in the Tamashek language. The second is the documentary "They Will Have to Kill Us First", which is about Malian musicians living in refugee camps due to the civil war in northern Mali.
That documentary leads to the band Songhoy Blues, who are from the same area but Songhoy rather than Tuareg. They are young guys who met in a refugee camp, and managed to score a British record contract. Upon seeing them live, my spouse said it was like seeing a young Rolling Stones. Very accessible, compared to more raw music like Tinariwen.
There's a lot more, but this is a good start.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3yR4bfT94yBav4vl12fAra?si=jic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPOK_Jazz
There's also more recent Soukous music which has it's own incredibly catchy cascading guitar:
https://open.spotify.com/user/ryandeussing/playlist/3nMZuA1L...
There are also some truly fascinating stories of how latin music influences landed in Africa and how African LPs carried by merchant seamen from Africa impacted Latin music: http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/21/champeta-colombia-sound-sy...
* Awesome Tapes from Africa: https://www.awesometapes.com/
* Analog Africa: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/
* Sublime Frequencies: http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/
Here's one album, "Bambara Mystic Soul": https://youtu.be/8XWuFG-Sq_g
As others have mentioned, its released by Analog Africa.
Famously used in the movie "If..."
It's English. It's a language of poetry, not precision.
My favourite albums of their collection right now are Space Echo, Amara Toure, and also Bambara Mystic Soul.
I think partially because of Spotify's and Youtube's recommender systems this type of music has picked up popularity lately. There are also several DJs such as Palms Trax and Hunee who have recently started mixing in African Disco into their tracks. I do not complain about this trend.
And of course, there are lots of anthologies of older music from the 1960s and 1970s, all of Fela Kuti's output, etc...