Afrique Victime reinvents contemporary Saharan and 'rock music' by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights inequality, and exploitation in Western Africa.
Released in 1972, 'Uganda (Dawn of Rock)' is a fusion of progressive and psych rock with African percussion workouts, dergy-wah wah blues-funk, and jazzy sensibilities; with different genres morphing and uniting as they progress
Tears of Injustice restates the sentiments expressed on their previous album, Funeral for Justice - but the new, calmer and reaffirming acoustic sound they gave the same old songs lends them a quite different tone.
A landmark recording from one of Ghana's great musical architects, Ebo Taylor's 1977 self-title release marked the first solo LP by the legendary guitarist, arranger, and composer after years behind the scenes shaping the sound of modern highlife.