The record I would like to share with you in this post has been in my possession for quite a few decades. I can't even remember where an...

I have followed Thomas Mapfumo since the mid-1980s. If I am not mistaken he and his band, The Blacks Unlimited , first performed in this co...

One of my resolutions for the new year is to post more traditional music. I am well aware that the distinction between modern and so-called ...

This is really the video that started my research into the (im)possibilities of sharing longer (than just under 11 minutes) videos. Another...

Unless they are ingeniously trying to get to a socialist utopia via the great Kladderadatsch *, the labelling of the Zimbabwean regime as ...

Here is one of those rapid posts. This cassette of Jonah Sithole and his band The Deep Horizon was given to me by the artist himself, when h...

A few months have passed since I posted music by Thomas Mapfumo . There was some discussion about the choruses in " Marehwarehwa "...

Although I like all kinds of music from Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwean music that - to me - really reaches the parts other can't is mostly tra...

Some even claim that Joshua Dube was the first to adapt mbira music for the electric guitar, but I seriously doubt this. And I base this do...

A slightly different version -than on the CD "Live At El Rey"- of "Marehwarehwa", with some great dancing by both Thomas...

This is the first of a series of posts about a partnership that played a critical role in the development of African music, and more particu...

Rumours have it that Thomas Mapfumo may return to Zimbabwe. It seems unlikely that he will go back to live there, as he hasn't been on...