click to enlarge Ngui-Ngon appears on Tiers Monde Cooperation s debut LP.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I m a fan of avant-garde Ugandan labels Nyege Nyege Tapes and Hakuna Kalala. And now and then I ve written in the
Reader about current African artists, among them Nihiloxica, Kirani Ayat, and Muthoni Drummer Queen. But I ve long listened to older sounds from the continent soukous, juju, mbalax, highlife, mbaqanga, apala, benga, fuji and I don t often have a timely reason to post about them in Chicago.
Fortunately, sharing music that s decades past its press cycle is one purpose of this column. The Listener is for whatever we like, and that s the only rule as Salem Collo-Julin demonstrated last week by writing about a collection of vintage in-store music mixes from Kmart.