The Motherland Influence presents:

  Tidiane Kone, Solomane Doumbia, Fela Kuti

WELCOME!

Let’s start with, as Fela said, “What we came into the room to do”.

On The Motherland Influence, we do explore influences of African diasporic music across cultures and across the globe.

One influential African artist was Tidiane Kone. Master of more than one instrument, this Malian musician was best known for his work with the trumpet and being able to cross borders and cultures in West Africa to work with some of the best. We’ll a tribute to him from a wonderful new album from Solomane Doumbia of Segou, Mali as well as hearing his work with such bands as Rail Band de Bamako, Mali and Orchestre T.P. Poly-Rythmo de Cotnonou, Benin.

We’ll hear cross-cultural influences with the music of Fela in Lagos, Nigeria and some of these same rhythms and instrumentation in the Caribbean and in South America.

And that’s just a start! So Let’s start!

    The Motherland Influence    January 22nd, 2023

Posted In: Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

WELCOME!

Some albums I’ll play today. And more.

    The Motherland Influence    January 8th, 2023

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

Some new albums from 2022

WELCOME!

And holiday good cheer!

This evening, I’ll be playing new albums and new compilations that I’ve enjoyed in 2022.

 

    The Motherland Influence    December 25th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

WELCOME!

African, Latin & Caribbean music.

Let’s start start with some psychedelic music from Peru.

We’ll even have a great song by Betti Betti from Cameroon backed by Orchestre T.P. Poly-Rythmo of Benin, by Francois Lougah of Cote d’Ivoire backed by Congolese musicicans.

Plus more and more !

Strange brew, cool mix.

    The Motherland Influence    December 11th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

           Just for starters…

WELCOME!

A whole lot more African, Latin & Caribbean music for your evening. A lot more.

 

    The Motherland Influence    November 27th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

Our Fall Fund Drive starts Wednesday!

What would I feature? How about starting with some of the albums shown above?

Yeah, I’ll do that today.

Music from Venezuela, Cuba, Senegal, Congo, RDCongo, Colombia and more.

And that’s just the beginning….

    The Motherland Influence    October 16th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

WELCOME!

African, Caribbean & Latin music every Sunday.

Today we have new and great older music from music from Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Angola and more.

Heavy on the African & Latin, mixing up a tasty snack, spicy but without salsa.

    The Motherland Influence    October 2nd, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

Amadou Ballake, Kante Manfila, Baba Commandant, Kady Diarra

WELCOME!

African, Latin & Caribbean music.

We start with a couple of 1970s classics from Burkina Faso, one of which is Amaou Ballake’s original song about money problems, “Wariko”.

He actually recorded three songs by that name that I know of. We’ll play an 80s song of his by that name, then another 80s song by Kante Manfila of Guinea.

Follow these with two contemporary burning hot “Wariko” songs from Burkina Faso, then MORE!

Yes, MORE! Music from Benin, Cabo Verde, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Martinique and RDCongo. And MORE!

 

    The Motherland Influence    September 18th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

Let’s rock. African and South American music from afrobeat to psychedelic cumbia and more.

Start with a Nigerian “Inna Gadd Da Vida”…wild keyboards, guitars and extended drum solos from the Black Hippies of Nigeria.

New rock from Mexico DF and Los Pao Paos.

MORE!

    The Motherland Influence    September 4th, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: ,

The Motherland Influence presents:

Boats in Colombia                                                                        Boats in Cabo Verde

WELCOME!

The Motherland Influence plays African, Latin & Caribbean music every week.

Today we’ll start by listening to music from Colombia and Cabo Verde then more from Colombia and Cabo Verde,

From accordions to horns, great vocals and deep basslines, complex percussion and guitars. From cumbia to funana – and a whole lot more – there’s a lot of commonality in the music we will play for you today.

You can kick back or kick up some dust.

Later in the program, we’ll spin off to Brazil, Angola, Haiti, Peru and more.

 

    The Motherland Influence    August 21st, 2022

Posted In: Music, Music Shows

Tags: , ,

« Previous PageNext Page »