Some (mostly) West African music that focuses more on the melodic side of things. Stings, voices, horns, idiophones, and the like (a few horns thrown in too). Tradional and folk mixed with blues, classic high life, and stuff like that. Chill, yet invigorating. Hope you enjoy!

Total run time: 1.2 hours

Artists are from Mali, Senegal, and Nigeria.

Ayub Ogada is from Kenya--one exception to my West Africa theme, but a beautiful song... Ry Cooder being the other.

Eight tracks including music by Amadou & Mariam, Bokoor Band and DJ Food. The West took their music and they took it back and showed us how its done. Fuzz Guitar, Sampling, Upright Bass,Harmonica.

Seventeen tracks including music by OG Melody, Akofa Akoussa and Matt Perri.

The title is a quote from Inger Christensen.

The image is something I found on the internet (I now can't remember where.)

This is a compilation of my pet monkey's favorite songs. He tends to favor music he can seriously swing his tail to - or else tracks with explicit animal-related titles and/or more tacit feral musical influences. // Expect to listen to everything from Orchestra Baobab to Anathallo. // Enjoy!

Nine tracks including music by Amadou and Mariam, Beck and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi.

A chill-ola mixtape with Brian Eno, Kraak & Smaak, and Bon Iver.