Looking for a little mood music to go along with all the commemorating you're doing over Frank Wills and Garrett Morgan and his life saving traffic light during this Black History Month? Check out my friend, John Morrison's mixtape called, Black History Month Vol. 1: Africa: Center of the World.
Morrison plans to do a series of FREE mixes in celebration of Black History Month. This particular one takes us back to the root of it all with songs celebrating the people of the global African Diaspora. The next mix, which will probably be upload online in a week or so, will be called It's Nation Time and feature artists such as Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka, Tupac, among others - or what Morrison calls, "some Black Power radical shit." I'm trying to get him to put it all on one site for yall but you know, Black folks don't listen. Anyway, check out the playlist and then hit play. If you like it, share it. And you can follow him on Tumblr.
1. Intro: (featuring Diop Olugbala & Dr. Cheik Anta Diop)
2. Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers: Africa Center of the World
3. Bob Ohiri & His UHURU Sounds: Africa is Free
4. The Last Poets: Tribute to Obadi/ Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: All Africa (Blend)
5. Pretty Afro-Pop Jam I can't remember the name of....
6. Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: All Africa/Alice Coltrane: ISIS & OSIRIS (Blend)
7. Sakara de Ketou (Yoruba de Benin Chants)/Albert Ayler: Spirits (Blend)
8. Living Colour: History Lesson
9. Madlib: Africa
10. Peter Tosh: Mama Africa
11. J. Dilla: African Rhythms
12. Lawal Gaspar- Awon Ojise-Oluwa/Liturgical Chant of the Ethiopian Jews: Yibarek (Blessing of the Sacred Sabbath)
13. Hukwe Zawose: Munyamaye
14. D' Angelo: Africa
15. The Abyssinians: African Race
16. Nas & Damian Marley: Promised Land
17. Nas & Damian Marley: Africa Must Wake Up
18. Gelede Iwoja (Yoruba De Benin Chants)/John Coltrane: Africa (Blend)
19. Archie Shepp: New Africa
Morrison plans to do a series of FREE mixes in celebration of Black History Month. This particular one takes us back to the root of it all with songs celebrating the people of the global African Diaspora. The next mix, which will probably be upload online in a week or so, will be called It's Nation Time and feature artists such as Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka, Tupac, among others - or what Morrison calls, "some Black Power radical shit." I'm trying to get him to put it all on one site for yall but you know, Black folks don't listen. Anyway, check out the playlist and then hit play. If you like it, share it. And you can follow him on Tumblr.
1. Intro: (featuring Diop Olugbala & Dr. Cheik Anta Diop)
2. Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers: Africa Center of the World
3. Bob Ohiri & His UHURU Sounds: Africa is Free
4. The Last Poets: Tribute to Obadi/ Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: All Africa (Blend)
5. Pretty Afro-Pop Jam I can't remember the name of....
6. Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: All Africa/Alice Coltrane: ISIS & OSIRIS (Blend)
7. Sakara de Ketou (Yoruba de Benin Chants)/Albert Ayler: Spirits (Blend)
8. Living Colour: History Lesson
9. Madlib: Africa
10. Peter Tosh: Mama Africa
11. J. Dilla: African Rhythms
12. Lawal Gaspar- Awon Ojise-Oluwa/Liturgical Chant of the Ethiopian Jews: Yibarek (Blessing of the Sacred Sabbath)
13. Hukwe Zawose: Munyamaye
14. D' Angelo: Africa
15. The Abyssinians: African Race
16. Nas & Damian Marley: Promised Land
17. Nas & Damian Marley: Africa Must Wake Up
18. Gelede Iwoja (Yoruba De Benin Chants)/John Coltrane: Africa (Blend)
19. Archie Shepp: New Africa
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