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Punk in Africa’s Keith Jones: African Music Beyond World Music
Tweet Punk in Africa Keith Jones gets around. A US East Coast native, the music documentary maker now splits his time between Prague – where he served in the mid-2000s as program director for the...
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AZGO Festival
Tweet Where: Maputo, Mozambique When: May 18 – 20 What: Second edition of a fast-growing music festival in the Mozambican capital, bringing together artists from all over southern Africa with an eye...
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Bi True: The Rest of the Story of a World Music Legend
Tweet “You know, you have those moments sometimes [when you think,] ‘Somebody should make a film about that,’” Andy Jones told me recently, recalling when he heard that celebrated Zanzibari singer Bi...
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Mali’s Songhoy Blues Are Ready for Their Music Film Close-Up
Tweet Songhoy Blues If there’s a silver lining in the horrific cloud of Mali’s sectarian strife, it might be Songhoy Blues. This four-piece band is explicitly a product of the conflict, which saw...
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Rikki Stein: Fela Forever
Tweet Rikki Stein has spent more than four decades in the music business as a producer, promoter, manager, and tireless champion of African culture, and he shows no sign of slowing down. On the...
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Killer Bi: Remembering Bi Kidude, the Taboo-Busting Queen of Taarab
Tweet Andy Jones’s music documentary As Old as My Tongue is subtitled “The Myth and Life of Bi Kidude,” an apt addendum for a film about a larger-than-life performer who came to global attention only...
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