African Scream Contest - Digest

Listening • African Scream Contest

In Africa, they’re just getting around to publishing essential psychedelic compilations that should have been out eons ago. Few know a name outside of Fela Kuti or King Sunny Ade. If there were any justice in the world 50 Cent would take the offer from Taco Bell to change his name to 79/89/99 Cent and use it to fund a swarm of ethnomusicologists to the lower Niger Delta region to record any and all sounds they can. I mean, what else is he doing with his time? —Llewellyn Hinkes, Jun. 25, 2008