BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, Life, Above All, DIRECTOR: Oliver Schmitz

Andrew McManus Presents is proud to announce the line up for Australia’s largest reggae festival, Raggamuffin 2011. click here for ticket and more details

Femi Kuti and The Positive Force Australian Tour vist Visit what’s On page of Africanoz

In this highly anticipated record, Joseph and his brother James go to New York and team up with three celebrated international jazz luminaries.   Partnering him on this special recording is one of the fathers of jazz guitar, John Abercrombie. Virtuoso bassist John Patitucci; a cornerstone of jazz double bass who’s most notably known for [...]

AfricanOz In Print October/November 2010 2nd Issue AfricanOz speaks with the inspiring Winston Ruddle, the Zimbabwean-born founder and director of Mother Africa, the spectacular stage production now touring Australia, including Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.  The show has involved performers from Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Benin, Zimbabwe and Guinea, and [...]

Mulatu Astatke is widely credited as the musical genius who integrated “jazz” with Ethiopian music in the 1960s, sparking an exciting genre of music that took the country by storm and eventually attracted international attention as ‘Ethio Jazz’. This is the latest release and the tracks were recorded with members of Either/Orchestra in Boston, with [...]

Now available on AfricanOzshop.com Ali & Toumani is an album of duets from two of Africa’s most distinguished musicians, the late guitarist Ali Farka Touré and kora player Toumani Diabaté. In The Heart Of The Moon, the duo’s first album together, won a Grammy following its 2005 release. After the success of their first album [...]

Now available on AfricanOzshop.com Appalled by the environmental destruction taking place in her native Madagascar as a result of climate change and slash and burn agriculture, singer Razia Said has created an inspired musical call to action. Buoyed by the irresistible rhythms and catchy melodies of traditional Malagasy music, Razia adds an accessible contemporary approach [...]

The Rough Guide To Afrobeat Revolution Various (Rough Guide, RGNET1222) Afrobeat Revolution takes Fela’s intoxicating cocktail of Nigerian highlife and James Brown swagger and blends it with the new generation of African revolutionary sounds, leaving you shaken by the rhythm and stirred by the message. 2xCD Special Edition – Featuring a bonus source CD by [...]