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On the Web
- Slipcue.Com Guide To Afrobeat Music - Annotated discography of major Afrobeat albums and compilation records, with reviews by Joe Sixpack.
- BBC Worldservice: Afrobeat - Interviews and text about the movement and the music.
- Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra - Official site of New York City group. Contains news, mp3s, message forums, photos, and links.
- Ink Blot Magazine: Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1 - Profile and album review by Bill Meyer.
- Nigeria-Arts.Net - Music - Nigerian arts, of which Nigerian music is central, includes juju, highlife, fuji, afrobeat, apala, gospel, sakara, jazz, reggae, and hip hop.
- Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Large multiethnic group. News, show dates, discography with audio samples, photographs, newspaper articles, message forums, and links.
- Black Rhino - Ett niomannaband med medlemmar från Kongo (f.d. Zaire), Uganda, Senegal och Sverige som spelar en mix av soukous, highlife, afrobeat, med vissa inslag av soul och latin.
- Afrobeat - Academia de batería y percusión étnica.
- Fanga - Afrobeat Live, groupe de Montpellier. Présente son actualité, ses concerts et des extraits audio.
- Les Tobrogoi - Fanfare de rues à mobylette. Musique tzigane, africaine, groove, jazz afrobeat. Calendrier des concerts, discographie, extraits sonores, presse.
Wikipedia Articles
- Chicago Afrobeat Project - Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is a dynamic musical collective rooted in '70s funk and jazz-infused afrobeat. CAbP mixes traditional afrobeat pioneered by Fela Kuti with other dance-invoking musical motifs such as Chicago house music, West African percussion rhythms and upbeat, jazzy funk.
- Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Antibalas (pronounced , or approximately "ahn-tee-BAH-las", from the Spanish for "bulletproof") is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, it incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa.
- Afrobeat - Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.
- Umoja Orchestra - The Umoja Orchestra is a Gainesville, FL-based band whose music incorporates elements from afrobeat, jazz, funk, afro-cuban as well as traditional African and South American styles. The band's instrumentation is modeled closely to bands such as Fela Kuti's Africa 70 and the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.
- Nick Movshon - Nick Movshon (Born New York City 1982) is a musician (primarily bass guitar) and producer. He is best known for his work with American Afrobeat group Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, British soul star Amy Winehouse and producer Mark Ronson.