Marcus here with your extra fly Friday mix you were fishin' for. Lots of up-tempo tunes here for you, mostly on the new(ish) side. Sometimes I od on the old-school so I busted out new material from Nacional Records artist Anita Tijoux, a Chilean rapper who has quickly become an artist I can't stop listening to. Female emcees a focus, as I also have music from Spanish rapper Silvia Amal. A favorite from just last year, the exuberent vibes of Malawian Esau Mwamwaya and his band The Very Best who owe super-producer Switch some props for getting their sound to match their name. What starts as a hard, bangin' set of dance grooves with hip hop flavor quickly finds the funk by the time we get to Afrobeat-smith Chico Mann and continues to the end through the lens of Cuban ex-pat Cassiano. Cassiano's music is hard funk fashioned in his Brazilian digs. The end is with a favorite, Fred Fisher Atalobhor, here sounding very Toot's & The Maytals with flourishes that are pure African Juju, and some of the best surviving material from a the Asolo Rock movement out of Nigeria that somehow never really materialized. Sad story, but a funky end to a warm Friday in need of some African chill-out music... Sound Travels Friday Fly Fishin' Mix
