Music – AFRICAN DIGITAL ART

Les Amazones d’Afrique

The first all-female supergroup of West Africa, the collective Les Amazones d’Afrique brings together musicians fighting violence against women. Whether they are undisputed stars or well-kept secrets, the musicians involved in this project are all among the most acclaimed voices in West African music: Kandia Kouyaté, Mamani Keita, Rokia Koné,…

Love Radio Rwanda: Powerful Web Documentary and Platform

In 2014 LoveRadio Rwanda was a project that was launched as a multimedia documentary about the process reconcilation in post-genocide Rwanda. The project remains live on the website, and is a great example of a digital platform that utilizes various forms of media for the purposes of storytelling. You can…

Awesome Tapes from Africa: Music and Cover Art Inspiration

If you didn't already know, we thought we would tell you about Awesome Tapes from Africa. We hope to continue to catalogue amazing digital platforms like Awesome Tapes from Africa. Begun by music publicist Brian Shimkovitz in 2006, Awesome Tapes is an archive of rare African music cassette tapes that…

Watch the Diasporadical Trilogia by Blitz the Ambassador

Ghanaian-American hip-hop artist and visual artist, Blitz the Ambassador, recently released a trilogy of music videos from his upcoming album Diasporadical EP. The three films are shot and in three locations; Accra, Ghana, Brooklyn, USA and Bahia, Brazil. We wanted to make sure you did not miss the completed trilogy…

Formative: Orchestrating Memorable Moments through Digital Art

I have always fantasized into get into this line of work; merging music, live performance, audience and digital art. Formative is an interactive design company that does it all and I had the pleasure of getting to know more about what they do. Q: Can you walk us through the process…

Petite Noire’s Virtual Reality

South African musician Petite Noir has been dazzling the world with his debut album La Vie Est Belle/ In the recent release of his music video Petite Noir experiments with digital art and spaces. A visual inspiration check out the video led by creative director Rochelle Nembhard and directed by Alan Del Rio…

Music, Identity & War In Sudan: Beats Of The Antonov Debuts Online [OkayAfrica]

Afripedia: Africa’s contemporary culture scene

Our friends at Stocktown recently launched a brand new project that we are ecstatic about. Roving throughout the continent this series hopes to captures Africa's full range of cultural and artistic scenes. Afripedia is an on-going documentary-project covering Africa’s contemporary culture scene. It covers the most significant and prominent creators…

Inner Cruise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yws511nCj0 Shot in Dakar Sénégal, Inner Cruise was directed by Tom Escarmelle and stylist and creative director Selly Raby Kane. The video is inspired by Selly Raby Kane's love of fashion. Inner Cruise / Stylism by Selly Raby Kane Directed by Tom Escarmelle / White Owl Prod. Music: Tame Impala…

Troublemaker

Found via 10and5 Troublemaker is the recent released music video by Haezer. Described as an Afro-Thriller the video features South African rapper Tumi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Sf891yNZE Troublemaker' is an Afro-Thriller set in the townships of South Africa where four young children with destructive super powers wreak havoc on their town. With the…

The African Cypher

Nominated and award winning documentary by Fly on The Wall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSW6rKEkQw Synopsis Street dance in South Africa is a complex, convoluted underworld; that, like most sub-cultures, exists as a sum of its participants. In Mapetla, Soweto if you steal phones and hand bags you will not live long. The community…

Kenya Chords / Pogomix by Nick Bertke

Nick Bertke, aka Pogo from Perth, Australia is one of a kind musicians whose artistry has many dimensions. Carefully taking sounds recorded on video he mixes them in a unique way to make music out of them. Its a remarkable craft and talent. He has done numerous pogo mixes and most noted for…

Meet Yadi

Yadi is an Algerian artist who recently released a new album The Blow. YADi gives us a new single that is a little bit edgy, a little bit fun, and definitely urban. I like the cinematography of it too – from the subtle flying smoke-bird and the shisha, to the…

Who is Dirty Paraffin?

A short documentary on South Africa's up and coming music duo, Dirty Paraffin. Okmalumkoolkat and Dokta SpiZee's lyrically witty and clever primer stove music is making waves on the local and international music scene. Some call their music electronic-kwaito, other call it rap, but they prefer to not to put…

Kinshasa Mboka Te [FR]

Sights, sounds and culture of Kinshasa. Found via Africa is a Country. Coproduction: Antenne A (Kinshasa), DL Multimédia (Lubumbashi), Sens Uniek Raffi Aghekian(Bruxelles) Producteur: Raffi Aghekian Réalisateur: Douglas Ntimasiemi Kinshasa 2012. Nous sommes au Congo. Au coeur de la capitale mythique. Chaque matin, toute une vie s’organise, tout un système se met en…

Toya De Lazy “Heart”

Another stopmotion gem! South African Toya Delazy has risen high on the charts this past year. Released a few weeks ago, this is her latest debut, her music video Heart. The music video was directed by Jeana Theron, an awarding winning South African director known for her commercial projects including…

Honey Spiders by Lung Studios

Produced for The Parlotones, this is the latest work by animators Lung Studios. The music video has great character design and awesome 3D animation mixed in with live action. A formidable feat, Enjoy! Credits: Music: The Parlotones Director: Claudio Pavan Production: Lung Animation. Animation: Arri Reschke Claudio Pavan Compositing: Claudio…

Noisettes Cover Art

Take a look at the latest cover art for the recently released Noisettes album, Contact. The Noisettes are a top selling British due that often experiment with the lead singer's Shingai's African roots. The album art was created by Pierre-Christophe a London based Art Director. My goal through the visuals…

Solange: Losing You

Shot in Cape Town, South Africa, Solange's video Losing You came out a few days ago. We couldn't resist positng the video because it remind us so much of Gentleman of Bacongo. We later found out that it was her inspiration for the video. Enjoy. ""When Melina and I decided…

A dose of some music inspiration….

No this is not a new series but sometimes we like to pepper in some music videos here and there. Catch some of these recent videos from musicians in Africa. Most recent of 2012 - The Plastics - indie band from Cape Town, Esau Mwamwaya and London DJ Radioclit who…

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