MUSIC: I'm hearing lots of PUNK on this network, but not much AFRO. Does afro people playing punk music really count as Afro-Punk?

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.....................

Tags: Afro, Afro-beat, Hybrid, Music, Punk, Rock

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Permalink Reply by Mäkkonen on August 25, 2010 at 5:00am

i'm thinking that's you're interpretation. I think it's showing that blacks were relevant and existed in the punk movements of current and past. You can pick that up and run with it as you will after that i guess.

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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on August 25, 2010 at 10:35am

black experience and talking about it in lyrics is "afro" enough for this site apparently... thanks for uploading ur stuff tho--i saw your other thread... very cool stuff. :]

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on August 25, 2010 at 3:49pm

Thanks for replying guys. I'm getting this whole thing a lot more now.

I needed to hear this in order to really understand because where I live in London African music, particularly West African (Afro-beat) music is very very popular. Also, the band I play in have been having real trouble defining our music for other people, and Afro-Punk is a phrase I like to use sometimes, because I really like the connotations it has. We actually call our music '12tone'. It is a new style we started ourselves. It is a fusion of all different kinds of music. You can check it out here: http://www.12tone.co.uk

There was record label in the 80's in the UK called 2-Tone which defined its music as '2-Tone'
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Tone ). The whole point of it was that it was white and black people playing music together fusing Jamaican music with British music. We've kinds taken the concept a bit further by starting a genre called '12-Tone'.

Hope you get the time to check out the links above, I think you will find it interesting. Thanks again for replying to my question.

PEACE

LesYpersound said:

black experience and talking about it in lyrics is "afro" enough for this site apparently... thanks for uploading ur stuff tho--i saw your other thread... very cool stuff. :]

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on August 25, 2010 at 3:51pm

Thanks for replying guys. I'm getting this whole thing a lot more now.

I needed to hear this in order to really understand because where I live in London African music, particularly West African (Afro-beat) music is very very popular. Also, the band I play in have been having real trouble defining our music for other people, and Afro-Punk is a phrase I like to use sometimes, because I really like the connotations it has. We actually call our music '12tone'. It is a new style we started ourselves. It is a fusion of all different kinds of music. You can check it out here: http://www.12tone.co.uk

There was record label in the 80's in the UK called 2-Tone which defined its music as '2-Tone'
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Tone ). The whole point of it was that it was white and black people playing music together fusing Jamaican music with British music. We've kinda taken the concept a bit further by starting a genre called '12-Tone'.

Hope you get the time to check out the links above, I think you will find it interesting. Thanks again for replying to my question.

PEACE

LesYpersound said:

black experience and talking about it in lyrics is "afro" enough for this site apparently... thanks for uploading ur stuff tho--i saw your other thread... very cool stuff. :]

LesYpersound said:

black experience and talking about it in lyrics is "afro" enough for this site apparently... thanks for uploading ur stuff tho--i saw your other thread... very cool stuff. :]

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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on August 27, 2010 at 4:57pm

Well, Kareem, I know Afrobeat sound is very popular some places out here too for the past few years now, especially at some advertised night clubs/dance clubs. You should get with some local musicians interested in fusing that with Punk/Rock music, cause that sounds fierce and fiery and could be a lot of fun to hear.

Yes I know a lot about the original 2 Tone thing, I really enjoyed that back then, and I liked the whole idea behind that socially and culturally. That idea for sure lives on many, many different genres of music, among other bands I'm sure now.

Another thing your suggestion topic reminded me of: several years ago at UCLA where my sister works, we attended a lecture about Ahmed Abdul-Malik, a musician who decades ago started doing his own fusion of High Life style music and other African and Middle Eastern music sounds with jazz, playing with other well known jazz artists at the time, during the late 50's/early 60's in the avant garde/be bop scene in New York, and the lecture was given by Robin Kelley, who at the time was working on a book on Thelonious Monk, and in the course of his research, he discovered the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and Prof Kelley played some clips of Ahmed's music and it was reeeeeally really great and I enjoyed that sound a lot.

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Permalink Reply by Kareem on December 30, 2010 at 3:25pm

Afro-Punk from London. Check this new video from United Vibrations, it contains leaked footage from NASA which shows some unexplainable activity in the solar system. ET's? you decide.....