https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe en-us Podomatic RSS Generator Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:33:59 +0000 bossa, ,nova, ,cafe, ,funk, ,jazz, ,latin, Copyright 2025 Fiki Stop by and have a sip! episodic false no https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/e2/1c/41/fikiscafe/1400x1400_1232581.gif https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe Fiki When you are feeling great, having a good time, enjoying life, company or a special moment... you must be in Fiki's Cafe... https://fikiscafe.podomatic.com/entry/2012-11-20T01_41_37-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe/episodes/2012-11-20T01_41_37-08_00 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:41:37 +0000 2013-12-11 2013-12-11 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe/episodes/2012-11-20T01_41_37-08_00 Fiki afro,rumba,soul,jazz,funk,samba,cafe,audio,mixtape,grooves 3606 false From Léopoldville now Kinshasa to the streets of Brooklyn, going wide and deep yet just scratching the surface of our musical roots. To warm up the kitchen we kick off our journey gently with a Conogolese style rumba by legendary guitarist Franco and his OK Jazz band singing of past time. Our dancing by the Congo River in Boma, a port and once a capitol of Congo, continues west, sailing to Accra, another African music hub. We meet a white man who came in the 50s, John Collins today a Professor, producer, musicologist and collector of Western African music who with his 70’s Bokoor Band lets us taste cool Ghana - Highlife style. Oh, lovely Accra. This combines nicely with South African Hugh Masakela singing and blowing his trumpet widely on my very favorite dancing tune from this funky fusion, a project that Hugh with the help from Fela Kuti joined forces with Hedzoleh, again Ghanian band. West African rhythms dominate a bit more on our excursion with praise to the moves of African Woman who swing you from Accra to Lagos to Campala to Capetown, performed by one more Highlife legend Ebo Taylor. While still shaken by woman’s bottom swings, we make a detour and takeoff to a 1974 live performance in Quebec, a panafrican rock fusion voyage lead by Senegalese drum master Mamadou Ndiaye with a few other Senegalese, Mali and Canadian musicians preparing you to spike high to Copenhagen as that’s the way it is when you like to change within the same but also when you crave to hear a heavy duty virtuoso and also to reflect …. Remembering Jens Winther and his magical Trumpet sketches that let you on a joy ride jumping, humming with an urge that makes you feel you can come up with your own and unique Jazz solo. Yes! You should give it a try… The ending blends so nicely with a modern Ethio Jazz mix from Samuel Yirga, bringing us some new summer production and fresh sounds. Giving time to respect the piano and sampling we take on a eclectic Nu Jazz tune by Nicolas Gorge alias Ark Konik performed with Bobby Few on the keyboard. After all this, one needs to stop and take a big breath and let oneself loose for a few minutes of improvised wild dancing with Atilla Engin, a Turkish Jazz musician. As your heartbeat accelerates you will be rewarded immensely. Shortly you will smile as you hear a 70s gangster tune by legendary Cecil Homes. You immediately want to jump high and make some serious martial art moves. You want to look good, feel good. This gives you confidence to face a musical power, right there on the spot in a turn you loose bluesy jazzy situation, like you have not used to hear him. Even in this kind of surrounding he can not be contained…. Shouting, swinging and screaming. And there you are too. You and Him…. You just want to get so “naked”… “Bring it on”… just you and Mr Dynamite, your funky jazzy Godfather of Soul…. He tells you to give it to him…. And while you are immersed another Goddess tickles in you your samba soul…. Yes, yes, yes, yes, some African Samba with Miriam Makeba – A Woman’s world we live in, indeed. We fade out this part of our journey with music from the streets of Brooklyn by The Daktaris in a mélange of Fela Mulato vibe, leaving you, I hope…. asking for more. Boma l'Heure - Franco et Ok Jazz Maya Gari - Bokoor Band Lagunta - Hugh Masekela & Hedzoleh African Woman – Ebo Taylor Toubabou - Doudou N'Diaye Et Ses Rosettes That's the Way It Is - Jens Winther Quintet Abet Abet (Punt Mix) – Samuel Yirga Finger – Ark Konik Dancing Darbuka - Atilla Engin Across 110th Street - The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds It's a Man's Man's Man's World (Unedited Version) - James Brown/Louie Bellson Musicawa Silt – The Daktaris From Léopoldville now Kinshasa to the streets of Brooklyn, going wide and deep yet just scratchin... https://fikiscafe.podomatic.com/entry/2007-12-26T02_08_52-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe/episodes/2007-12-26T02_08_52-08_00 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:08:52 +0000 2013-12-05 2013-12-05 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fikiscafe/episodes/2007-12-26T02_08_52-08_00 Fiki funk,jazz,60's,70's 3668 false A late night inspirational mix of hard core jazz funk masters knocking it off. Africa, Brazil, America, Europe... No more to be said. Play it and enjoy. 1. Work Song - The Pazant Brothers & The Beaufort Express 2. Ain't No Sunshine - Sivuca 3. Beat it - Fredy Brock 4. Gettin' Down - Eugine Blacknell & The New Breed 5. N'Bani - John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie 6. Smokey Feeling - Organization 7. Just a moment - George Danquan 8. Lenjen - Mamadou Ly 9. Gimmie All You Got - Spice 10. Take Five - Carmen McRae 11. It's Too Funky In Here - James Brown 12. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag [Unedited Version] - James Brown 13. Mandinka Greeting - Mamadou greets Demba 14. Sudden Senitlity - Herb Geller 15. Soul Samba - The Earthquakers 16. Marrakech Blues - Randy Weston A late night inspirational mix of hard core jazz funk masters knocking it off. Africa, Brazil, ...