About this site
Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique is a non-commercial web site intended to spread information about African music and
musicians of African origin. Hereto, it is offering a large number of featured artist pages with biographical information
and a discography. The objectives of the site are to inform and educate about music from a continent very rich in musical
heritage and talent, but less so in production and promotion capacity as well as in exposure to media.
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Thanks
This site couldn't have been developed to what it is now without the help of numerous people, music lovers, site visitors,
promotors and artists.
So, un grand merci to:
Music fans and friends:
Ciska Klooster (CC Design)
Dolf Motz
Ronald Zee
Peter Toll
Martin Sinnock
Graeme Counsel
Lydia Gaertner
Lars Fredriksson
David Noyes
Alastair Johnston (www.muzikifan.com)
Lara Gonzalez
Renso Hoekveld
Jean-Eric Sende
Nick Dean
Tom Fleming
Iain in Tokyo
Artists:
Taffa Cissé (Xalam)
Mamadou Tounkara (Les Escrocs)
Salim Diallo (Les Escrocs)
Djiby Guissé (Les Frères Guissé)
Mamadou Doumbia
Andrian
Victor Sila
Mpandé Star
Duncan Peltenburg
Barbara Akabla
Ricardo Lemvo
N'faly Kouyaté
Fatoumata Dembélé
Bouba Niang (Kamalor)
Joe Dioubaté
Francis Ndoumbe
François Essindi
Nicolas Lebault (Boolumbal)
Promotors and professionals:
Frédéric Galliano (Frikyiwa)
Marg Tobias (Mosaic Sounds)
Ayoko Mensah (Kaba Kaba Network)
Stéphane Besançon (Yeli Fuzzo)
Dr. Armand Nguemkap
Dominique Sablier (Another World Production)
Rebecca Harrison (manager Chata Addy)
Philippe Berthier (Mali K7)
Fousseni Jean William Traoré (Seydoni Mali)
Marion Lecuyer (ASD Prod / Metzo Djatah)
Stephen Conroy (Onzou Records)
Linda Bawden Allen (The Cora Company)
Patrick Savin (Compagnie Sokan)
Lydie (Conserprod Ltd)
Piranha
Arno Bos
Alfred Houlemou
Laurent Boireau (Africolor)
Myriam Bokelo
Edmond Kwedi (Eligreg)
Roberto Fuechsel (Hit Digital Production)
Joel Laviolette (Mhumhi Records)
Marc Somville (Galerie Marc Dengis / Jeff Kavanda)
Josée Lapeyrère (Zoom-Zoum)
Yoro Sangaré (Diata Sya)
Franck Vorgers / Eric Gallé (Pure Son'g)
Lesley Wells (MoreStar Entertainment)
CC Smith
Maryam Kouyaté (Namunkanda Int'l)
Marc Roskamp (Djeli Productions)
Juliana Capatosto (laRO Music)
Xavier Chezleprêtre (Tôt ou Tard)
Catherine Duval (Feomanga)
Lubangi Muniania (Tabilulu Productions)
Antoine Amigues (Wountanara / Espoirs de Coronthie)
Jean Ducassé (Totolo)
René Romer (TransCity/Suzanna Lubrano)
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Legal disclaimer
19 February 2006
1. Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique is a non-commercial web site intended to spread information about African music and
musicians of African origin.
2. Pictures of LP and CD sleeves are reproduced for promotional purposes and in order to enable music lovers to
identify and recognise
albums so that they can look for them in CD shops. Given the limited size and resolution of the sleeves, they are
not intended to be printed out or used for other purposes than mentioned here above, nor to reproduce the artwork and
photographs as a way to penalise the rightful owners of this artwork. Nevertheless, if anybody feels that his or her artwork
has been used unrightfully, he or she is invited to contact the site owner on
f b e s s e m @ y a h o o . c o m.
3. Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique does not condone illegal copying and downloading of music. The few audio files on this
site are for promotional purposes only, and are either short excerpts, or are made available with permission of the artist
or the artist's promotor.
4. Links to external sites are given for information purposes, but the site owner of Musiques d'Afrique can take no
responsibility for the content,
the quality nor the validity of the links and of the web sites to which they link. All external links open in a separate
window to show that the content of the external links is not depending on Musiques d'Afrique.
5. The selection of the artists or bands represented is based on a mix of personal preferences, opportunistic
reasons and availablility of information.
6. Copyright of pictures is with the respective artists, copyright of textual content is with Frank Bessem.
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