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I started a love of modern African music via Franco/OK/TPOK Jazz. https://open.spotify.com/album/3yR4bfT94yBav4vl12fAra?si=jic65Qt1SGKP5sbIDjkRSA https://open.spotify.com/album/3yR4bfT94yBav4vl12fAra?si=jic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPOK_Jazz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPOK_Jazz There's also more recent Soukous music which has it's own incredibly catchy cascading guitar: https://open.spotify.com/user/ryandeussing/playlist/3nMZuA1LBNQKn7siHmvqOe?si=F_HxLWwTS02RRW3A6tFxqw https://open.spotify.com/user/ryandeussing/playlist/3nMZuA1L... There are also some truly fascinating stories of how latin music influences landed in Africa and how African LPs carried by merchant seamen from Africa impacted Latin music: http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/21/champeta-colombia-sound-system-music-lucas-silva-palenque/ http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/21/champeta-colombia-sound-sy...