Does Afro people playing Punk really count as Afro-Punk, or is that just Punk? Where's the Afro-beat/Punk fusion?

Don't mean to offend anyone but I am looking for music which fuses afro
music with punk music, not just afro people playing Punk music, that's
just Punk.

Afro-Punk is a hybrid which fuses the two musical traditions. Listen to the song
on my profile as an example. It fuses Afro-beat rhythms of West Africa
with Rock/Punk to create a new style.

Have a listen and let me know what you think.

PEACE from London.....................

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on August 24, 2010 at 10:00pm

Thanks for this. These guys are incredible!

As for ,"minimal chord structure", afro-beat and lots of other styles of African music are almost completely modal, ie one scale, one key. You can't really get more "minimal" than that. Sounds like they match. I've always thought of Punk more of a spirit rather than a set of musical rules or norms. A raw, rebellious spirit which welcomes shouting and must be delivered with high energy.

Please have a listen to the song on my profile page and tell me what you think. I consider it Afro-Punk in that it fuses afro-beat and Punk and Rock, you may consider it not. Just found a band called The Memorials on this site, they are great too! watch this, the drum beat at the beginning is unmistakebly Afro-beat, but when the other instruments join it becomes something else, i'd call it Afro-Punk.

Blipp said:

I suppose the closest thing to what you seek would be a band like National Wake. . one of the first integrated punk bands out of South Africa . . True hybrid of punk rock would definitely have to incorporate less complex musical styles to be considered punk. Punk is deliberately stripped down to minimal chord structure, sped up and most compositions are less than 4 minutes in length. Anyhow . . you may find this interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on August 25, 2010 at 5:39pm

it IS endless................

Blipp said:

I suppose one can classify "rebellious" aggressive music as punk. Early thrash metal was influence by punk rock from the late 70's. After taking a listen to your music . . I am not sure how to classify it. Some may classify it as Afro punk and others probably will not. On the Memorials clip - Thomas Pridgen is an excellent drummer. As a musician I love to jam with great drummers the spectrum of diversity is almost endless.

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Permalink Reply by Ivan Kadey on August 26, 2010 at 5:59pm

Kareem
Listen to the drum solo at 1 min:49 secs as Punka Khoza, drummer of National Wake breaks from straight ahead rock into an afro beat, and back again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfF2newrEGM
recorded live early 1980, Johannesburg.

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on August 26, 2010 at 6:50pm

Thanks for this. Great track. Not sure I'd call the drum solo afro-beat though?

Check out 'Tony Allen', he is the drummer who invented afro-beat the genre. This is a good example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgewcFh-cg

Wait for the drums to drop in..

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Permalink Reply by Ivan Kadey on August 26, 2010 at 10:05pm

OK. Not so clued up on the precise definition thing. Let me simply say Punka is transitioning from a rock through an african beat and back again. Have a listen to this National Wake track off our album recorded in 1981.

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