Awesome Tapes From Africa started exactly six years ago out of Brian Shimkovitz' bedroom. He'd recently returned from his second long period of living in Ghana and, a lover of both music and strange ...

Awesome Tapes From Africa is a hip blog with a semi-touristy name that belies its high quality. This — from Mali, circa 1982 — is its first release as a label. Guitars and keyboards argue about key; ...

Awesome Tapes From Africa, the long-running blog, turned into a record label late last year with the release of Mali's Na Hawa Doumbia's La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3. Awesome Tapes' second ...

Acclaimed Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara talks Adam Quarshie through her favourite records, explaining the influence of powerful female vocalists from both the United States and from Mali's ...