Teno Afrika - Where You Are - VINYL LP

The past five years have seen amapiano, South Africa's electronic music movement born in the townships of the country's Gauteng province, evolve from an underground sound to a nationwide mainstream staple. Even with it's commercial success though, amapiano's DIY ethos has continued to disrupt music creation and distribution in the country. Most amapiano commercial successes today began their careers on cracked versions of production software like FL Studio, distributed their work through file sharing platforms like datafilehost and marketed it using social media pages they controlled and influenced.Amapiano is partly a tasting menu of South Africa's musical history, a lineage that has been as much a backdrop to the times as it has been a catalyst for change in the country. South African jazz has thrived pre and post-democracy, contributing international stalwarts of the genre, notably Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela. Kwaito music-which itself borrowed from other genres like marabi, kwela, mbaqanga, maskandi, bubblegum and others-was created and proliferated in the 90s partly because of the newly accessible House music imported into the country. In the early 2000s, Deep and Afro House dominated, to be followed by the rise of diBacardi, a percussion-heavy electronic music genre most popular in the city of Pretoria and it's surrounding townships.Amapiano Selections, the debut album by DJ and producer Teno Afrika, gives listeners outside the movement's online economy an insight into the high-burn nature of amapiano that has spawned a distinct typology under it's larger umbrella. Twenty-one-year-old Lutendo Raduvha has spent the bulk of his life moving between different townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg and Pretoria in the Gauteng province. The palette of amapiano styles on the album reflect these influences.But at first, South Africa's younges

Album Tracks 1. Duclapi for Clarinet & Piano 2. Sqiii I Cantando Ma Giusto 3. Sqiii II Dolce 4. Sqiii III Dolce 5. Sqiii IV Breit Gesungen 6. Sqiii V Calmo, Zum Schluss 7. Pi 8. Violations 9. Flimba I 10. Flimba II 11. Flimba III 12. Flimba IV 13. Flimba V 14. Flimba VI 15. Bacla Constrictor

ABYSSINIA Beat driven, rootsy and soulful explorations inspired by Te'Amir's Ethiopian heritage. Featuring the psychedelic vocals of Dustin Warren, strings from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, harp lines from virtuoso Rebekah Raff, Randal Fisher on saxophone and more of L.A.'s finest creatives. ABYSSINIA RISE An epic soundscape brimming with innovative shifts and colourful textures. Featuring four stand out tracks, the takes the listener on an impactful metaphysical journey that weaves through the winding rivers and busy fields of the old Abyssinian empire before closing with an ascending sense of peace.Abyssinia EPA1. HabeshaA2. The Quest feat. Dustin WarrenA3. All The You Need feat. Dustin Warren A4. Randal In AddisB1. AfrikaAbyssinia Rise EPB2. Back To AbyssiniaB3. Blue NileB4. Afar HustleB5. Salam