The Africa Music Show

Holy Camoly – The Unhappy Hour studio rocks to 120 bpm this Sunday in a rare moment of happiness. African beats (kwaito, nogal) from Cape to Cario, via Burkina Faso kept the cold away – all climaxing with Brenda Fassie’s Weekend Special. Undoubtedly song of the show for me!! Whether you’re in the queue at the bank, in the traffic to work or at a braai with your cousin…you can’t help but feel your shoulders start moving and your head bopping to this one. To complete the African-ness we munched on biskuitjies from a tuisnyweheid in Prince Albert and sipped coffee from Kenya. Mmmm..

We left the studio with TONS of African music still unplayed…so beware: more is coming!

Shoo weee! What a show. We really shot from the hip. Sam decided we needed to have an African music show including South African and Afrikaans music too. It turned out really awesome. We played everything from Hirsham Abbas from Egypt to Tidalwaves down here on the Cape FLats. We visited Reunion and Mali and North Ghana and many other places on the continent.

The main topic on air and off air was finding a "Johnny Cash of Africa". There were many contenders like Oliver Mtukutzi, Johnny Clegg, Fela Kuti, Salif Keita, Alpha Blondy, Danyel Waro and even Ismael Lo. Mail us theunhappyhour@gmail.com if you have any contenders for the race. Someone even suggested Anton Goosen. So start pledging. We will anounce the list so far and update it as we go.

1 - redemtion song - johnny cash with joe strummer
2 - intil waheeda - hirsham abbas
3 - molofo hall - ndumiso
4 - sindi - alif naaba
5 - baba - salif keita
6 - street kid - oliver mtukudzi
7 - kunandi - rokia traore
8 - vision - mo'kalamity and the wizards
9 - le realite - amadou and miriam
10 - mlisa - bafo bafo
12 - bahlalefi - black sunshine
13 - shawns uhadi samba - hotep idris galeta
14 - across africa - big voice jack
15 - tyinn bob - ddanyel waro
16 - african shadow man - johnny clegg
17 - great kids - fela kuti
18 - without blame - ismael lo + marianne faithful
19 - pata pata - miriam makeba
20 - nubu gubus - jackson kaujeua
21 - lalogo - alpha blondy
22 - suffer in africa - african show boys
23 - weekend special - brenda fussy
24 - sana lwan - zola feat. unathi
25 - hartseerland - tidalwaves