I don't think there's a better record label dealing in vintage African music these days than Analog Africa, which has uncovered, annotated, and beautifully packaged a load of excellent, usually funky sounds from the 70s created in Ghana, Benin, Angola, and Togo, among other locales (to say nothing of the label's more recent excursions into Colombia and Brazil). I interviewed label owner Samy Ben Redjeb for a piece I wrote for the Reader six years ago and at the time he lamented that the market kind of forced him to focus on the funky side of his expert crate digging—in general, record buyers weren't as enthusiastic about subtler, more traditional sounds.…
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