www.sternsmusic.com
In spring 1983 an ‘outdooring’ ceremony was
held in a quiet back street off London’s Tottenham Court Road. The occasion,
at which drums were played and libations were offered to the ancestors, was
the opening of Stern’s African Record Centre, a retail outlet, which has
since grown into the largest distributor of African records outside Paris,
with a catalogue of 3,000 titles, including 100 on their own labels (Stern’s
and Earthworks), and customers across the globe.
www.palopafrica.co.uk/
Beyond African, Brazilian and Cuban,
blending acoustic and electric, PALOP Africa! presents another
dimension to African music.
www.afropop.org
AFROPOP is a radio program, a web site, a searchable
database, an international musical archive, a team of researchers, and
a travel series to Africa and Latin America.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/index.shtml